http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21712
--- Comment #2 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2012-08-02 08:56:18 CDT --- Happily, googling the .exe found a download site (hint: use wget) that has a file with the right name and sha1sum.
Accepting its offer to install the vc2005sp1 runtime, but declining the DirectX runtime install, the game starts up properly (yay!) on an Nvidia system. So the bug is either fixed or invalid, and we need to try on an Intel system to see.
(Declining all runtime offers, the game crashes on startup with Backtrace: =>0 0x7b83a092 in kernel32 (+0x2a092) (0x008ee7f0) 1 MSVCRT__invalid_parameter+0x84() 2 MSVCP_char_traits_char__Copy_s+0x61() in msvcp90 3 basic_string_char_grow+0xad() in msvcp90 4 MSVCP_basic_string_char_assign_cstr_len+0x56() in msvcp90 5 MSVCP_basic_string_char_assign_cstr+0x34() in msvcp90 or hangs with Expression 'paTimedOut' failed in 'src/os/unix/pa_unix_util.c', line: 387 so there may be another bug or two to sqeeze out of app startup here.)