http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27839
--- Comment #2 from Ruslan b7.10110111@gmail.com 2011-07-19 14:33:38 CDT --- (In reply to comment #1)
By any chance, don't you have mmdevapi set to disabled?
GTASA starts fine here, using wine-1.3.24-246-g5d22f3a. I can reproduce the reported error message only when mmdevapi=disabled.
How do I check? I've tried grepping configure output for mmdev, but it didn't find anything.