http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13770
--- Comment #1 from bobgoat bobgoat37@yahoo.com 2008-06-13 19:41:43 --- Alright, I've confirmed the cause of the problem. Wine just does not like ratpoison / tiling WMs even when running in only one frame.
The game runs seemingly 100% fine for me using WindowMaker.