http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28114
--- Comment #10 from Ben Shadwick benshadwick@gmail.com 2012-11-09 12:08:20 CST --- (In reply to comment #8)
If you have a Windows license, you could try with a native a3dapi.dll Dont't forget to register it
That's a red herring, as the game does not require A3D.
I tried installing the 3.12 driver ( http://members.optusnet.com.au/kirben/drivers.html ) which adds software A3D support, and it makes things worse by causing Wine to lock up with the following debug log:
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 94 (SPI_GETMOUSETRAILS) err:ole:COMPOBJ_DllList_Add couldn't load in-process dll L"" err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {d8f1eee0-f634-11cf-8700-00a0245d918b} could be created for context 0x1
Note that the SPI_GETMOUSETRAILS log was happening before, too, but I missed it because it was logged on the same line as a shell prompt.