http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27982
--- Comment #2 from A Wine user RandomAccountName@mail.com 2011-08-20 05:50:44 CDT --- Created an attachment (id=36048) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=36048) Creative Writer 2 trial on Windows 7
(In reply to comment #1)
Well, this is interesting. The application actually fails on Windows Vista, too. It gets "stuck" at the Microsoft logo screen for a few seconds (the same place Wine freezes), and then the application sort-of recovers and displays a (very buggy) error screen. This happens even in Win95 and Win98 compatibility modes. So there's still a bug someplace in Wine -- it should drop to the error screen -- but otherwise we seem to be behaving as mmdevapi-enabled Windows behaves.
That's strange. I was able to install and run the trial version on Windows 7 without any tweaking or problems. Maybe only Vista is incompatible?