http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35263
--- Comment #7 from bart@wina.ugent.be --- I got a breakthrough in this bug - don't know if it's still valid now: I installed the game with a patch from the developers (thinking "ok, it will actually fix bugs"). this patch seems to introduce the bug ... when I erase the new files from the installation directory, the game loading runs fine. also save / restore runs fine, so the bug seems to be introduced by the game update (view URL - anno1602 patch 1.04 for dutch version)