https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32641
--- Comment #13 from Béla Gyebrószki gyebro69@gmail.com --- Did you try the game with Windows version set to Windows XP in winecfg? I can reproduce the crash in Win7 mode, but the game starts properly when Windows version is set to WinXP.
AFAIK the game has known problems when running on newer Windows. Windows users suggest to use either DxWnd or dgVoodoo: https://sourceforge.net/p/dxwnd/discussion/general/thread/0bb3571a/
https://www.play-old-pc-games.com/2014/08/06/breath-of-fire-iv/
I managed to start the game in Win7 mode using DxWnd (but performance was considerably slower than in Win XP mode without DxWnd).
Tested in Wine-4.5.