http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20202
--- Comment #6 from varsamop@hotmail.com 2010-05-27 04:28:47 --- Jeff and Jamie, GOOD NEWS!
I downloaded and built wine-1.2-rc1 (same version as the latest packaged one for ubuntu 10.4) using git. There results are as follows: -- Both the packaged and the source-built wine DO NOT CRASH when using a BLANK ~/.wine directory. The game works just fine. -- Both the packaged and the source-built wine CRASH, the same way and at the same spot, when using my CURRENT ~/.wine directory, which has been there for years.
There must be some tweaks or other configuration parameters introduced sometime in the past that make wine crash eqgame.exe.
I only have 3 applications installed, so it's not that big of a deal for me to start a ~/.wine from scratch. It may be more complicated for people with tens of windows applications installed.