http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15157
--- Comment #23 from Kae Verens kae@verens.com 2009-01-17 14:35:25 --- I think this was a Wine bug, or at the least, a packaging bug. I tried last week and it did not work for me. Then today, after Christos announced his success, I upgraded my wine to 1.1.12, and it ran immediately.
I upgrade very frequently, so the last installed version I had would have been the previous latest Fedora, probably 1.1.11.
I did replace the codec as suggested in some posts here, but that was previous to last week.
Works for me now. I needed to do a few additional things: 1. use virtual desktop mode instead of allowing xrandr. I have a wide-screen laptop, and 640x480 (default mode for Thief) resizes to 640x400 because of some xrandr thing I don't get. This cuts out some important buttons from being seen or clicked. 2. make sure to run the game on only 1 CPU. this is true of the other Thief games as well. I used "schedtool -a 0x2 -e wine THIEF.EXE" as my command to start the game.
Works perfectly - video, sound, smooth graphics.
Thanks guys!