http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17504
--- Comment #1 from Rico kgbricola@web.de 2009-02-22 06:25:10 --- 1. Could you add any more information so that anyone could try to reproduce this? (Where did the crash happen?) 2. What driver version, gpu, distro do you have? 3. Have you tried with a fresh .wine directory? 4. Do you have combiz/beryl running? 5. Could you try wine 1.1.15 (at least wine-1.1.15-177-g7555da4 workes fine here)? 6. How did you start the game? (Did you switch to the directory first, before you start the game?) 7. Could you try the older version you mentioned and if it works fine there, please run a regression test ( http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting ).
Also, please have a look at bug 12013 probably one solution solves your problem.