http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18352
--- Comment #5 from Michael Monreal infernux@web.de 2009-05-05 05:56:47 --- Started to test again using a fresh WINEPREFIX. This revealed that the game needs vcomp.dll (VS2005 OpenMP lib) to run (a16) or crash (a17 and up), I didn't really notice before because it was already installed in my old WINEPREFIX.
This seems to be part of the problem actually... looks like A17 introduced some new threading stuff. How to debug this?