http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18923
--- Comment #5 from GyB gyebro69@gmail.com 2011-03-15 09:29:51 CDT --- Created an attachment (id=33647) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=33647) terminal output (with native msvcrt.dll)
I can confirm, the issue still exists in wine-1.3.15-296-g3dc7ffb. The game starts but shows only a black screen. This seems to be the same problem that afflicts Syberia (bug #21796); both games are from the same developer.
Someone posted a workaround for Syberia on the AppDB page of the game, which works in the case of Postmortem, too: After you started the game and got the black screen, in another terminal launch the taskmanager: wine taskmgr. It will bring up a window showing Postmortem.exe in it. Select the game and choose <Switch to>. The game will appear on the screen sound and safe. Minor annoyance is that the task manager icon is always visible on the screen during gameplay.
The demo shows the same problem for me (requires native msvcrt.dll): http://www.fileplanet.com/116849/110000/fileinfo/Post-Mortem-Demo
Fedora 14 Gnome-2.32.0 with Metacity 2.30.3 (no Compiz here)