http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7425
--- Comment #22 from Michael B toxatec@web.de 2012-11-06 19:04:15 CST --- I just installed Gothic 2 (German "Limited Gold Edition") in a clean prefix with wine-1.5.16 on arch64.
Gothic II (without addon) 1.30: - Installs fine - With vdfs32g.exe: Runs fine without music, minor issues concerning resolution. Vdfs32g.exe seems to be working as intended (Before the game starts there is a progress bar "initializing" something) - vdfs32g.exe removed: Still working, no progress bar at startup - Original CD and no crack used So version 1.30 can be excluded I guess.
Gothic II (with addon) 2.60: - Addon installs fine - Copy protection doesn't work -> NoCD fix (2.6 GERMAN NoCD/Fixed EXE)
When starting the game Vdfs32g.exe crashes immediately: "Program Error, The program Vdfs32g.exe has encountered a serious problem..." You can close this window, then the game starts and runs fine.
With Vdfs32g.exe removed the game runs fine, as Xavier pointed out. I can also confirm that with 'winetricks directmusic' and musicEnabled=1 there is an error message at startup and the game closes.
I'll test this on Windows 7 tomorrow.