http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29802
--- Comment #4 from GyB gyebro69@gmail.com 2012-02-05 08:31:53 CST --- (In reply to comment #3)
(In reply to comment #2)
What video card and driver are you using?
R710 class chip with the r600g driver (I know it worked with a r300g-powered setup (older Wine version and on a i386 system) way back, but I can't test that anymore).
Can you verify if the game starts normally on a Windows installation, using your current gfx card? There is a known problem with the game using ATi cards on Windows too, when hardware acceleration is used, and the symptom is similar to yours (black screen after the intro). You can find many articles about that on the net.
Btw., are you running the game with hardware acceleration enabled (or in software rendering mode)?
Obviously hardware accelerated (I think I never used software acceleration).
You can try running the game in software mode, by changing a pair of registry keys: under 'HKCU/Software/Bullfrog Productions Ltd/Dungeon Keeper II/Configuration/Video' change the value of 'Engine Id' to 4 and change 'Screen Hardware 3D' to 0. Does the game start normally that way?