https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21541
--- Comment #10 from Anastasius Focht focht@gmx.net --- Hello Jonathan,
--- quote --- Wouldn't that version have all of the copy protection disabled? --- quote ---
sure. It's a common misconception that "crash" automatically means it must be DRM related. The game uses SecuROM 4.x copy protection which works fine.
No offence, but I wasted a load of bucks to buy older games just to investigate alleged copy protection issues (I don't play games at all) and in many cases I found there was nothing to fix. Most of the time people had old/broken Wine versions, broken/missing dependencies, broken graphics drivers, broken kernels, broken prefixes and <insert lots of stupid user errors here>.
If you can still reproduce your problem with Wine 1.7.10 you are free to reopen the bug. Be sure to attach a fresh crash report.
Regards