http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27029
--- Comment #12 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2011-10-06 21:11:34 CDT --- (In reply to comment #11)
I loaded an older (1.2x) version of Wine and Sketchup 8 works again. Based on the time I started having trouble, the problem originates in either 1.3.27 or 1.3.28. I am going to try installing newer and newer versions of Wine until I can confirm which version initiates the problem for Sketchup.
Is this of any value, or do you already know which version starts the problem?
The problem is known. Use 'winetricks -q vcrun2005' to install the native manifest globally and you should be able to avoid this.