http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22463
--- Comment #13 from jim jimportal@gmail.com 2010-05-10 15:01:42 --- (In reply to comment #10)
Hmm, as I don't have that game I can't say what the issue might be. Can you find someone to confirm that the hour glass shows up in Windows? (I assume this is your desktop's hourglass or the default Wine one and not an obvious in-game hourglass)
I fired up my old HP laptop with Windows and installed prey. The standard Windows hour glass is definitely there for at least the first part of the loading screen and is hidden about half way through loading.
With current git (there were some related patches again today) the hour glass is shown throughout the loading screen and remains during the menu and game play. The cursor does not get hidden.
With current git and the above patch the cursor is hidden when the game reaches the menu screen. I suspect that the cursor should be hidden sooner, but on my Linux box the loading screen is much faster (on much newer hardware). It's hard to say if the cursor is being hidden at the appropriate time. (I would test on my slower laptop under Linux but I cannot get the proprietary ATI Linux drivers to work on it.)
So, while current git + patch seems to be more correct, it's hard to say if things are actually where they need to be.
We probably need some more testing. I'll try to find/make some as time permits.