http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12652
--- Comment #36 from Brian Warren bwarren@yandex.com --- (In reply to comment #34)
(In reply to comment #30)
For me, the game launches right away. Seems to behave itself fairly well. Wine 1.7.1 and Wine 1.7.10.
what else makes up your config?
I've got Ubuntu 13.10, AMD FX 8320 cpu, nvidia gtx 660, wine 1.7.11 (compiled from source with csmt patches from Stefan Dosinger's git repo. (although I'm pretty sure it works without CSMT). I just have a few basics installed through winetricks. Vcrun, dotnet35, that sort of thing. Also the game is an untouched install, no cracks or anything.
I use Wine 1.7.11 and launch the game through Steam with Wine pretending to be Windows XP. I'm not using any overrides at all.
Is it possible that there's something about the CD version that is different than the Steam version, and that is causing the crashes? Perhaps copy protection or some other nonsense.