http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7116
--- Comment #16 from Jeff Zaroyko jeffzaroyko@gmail.com 2008-01-27 17:05:07 --- (In reply to comment #15)
One source of confusion with this has been that the game installs a Desktop icon and a programs menu icon to run the game, but using either of these triggers the problem. My guess is that these aren't changing directories correctly (although I looked at the shortcut info, the directory information is correctly set).
Running the desktop shortcut doesn't trigger it for me. It works without issue.