http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20554
--- Comment #36 from GyB gyebro69@gmail.com 2011-10-15 00:58:11 CDT --- I don't have Populous 3 so can't tell you whether this bug is fixed or not regarding to P3, but Klabutong (see comment #34) is starting properly now, as of wine-1.3.30-145-g7a4349b. Klabutong began to work on my system after OpenGL became the default renderer (1.3.28). However, gdi still produced the same crash. Since this commit, the game starts correctly, whether gdi or opengl is in use: http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commit/0f9dfb932e51efa844283d28d7aa9be...
Please try Populous 3 with Wine-1.3.29 (or newer) and report back what you find.