http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23995
--- Comment #2 from Saner admin@pokemonger.com 2010-08-14 09:03:35 --- Yeah, I have been all over that (and for all the patches too), I have also seen on http://www.fmtux.net/index.php/topic,551.0.html (first two posts, it seems to drop onto the topic of the steam vs. cd version after that) (and other sites via google) that its not just me that is having the problem.
the "fixme:d3d_surface:IWineD3DBaseSurfaceImpl_Blt Filters not supported in software blit " error has gone with later builds of wine (it is there in 1.1.41) but the end result is the same, for example it took me 10 + attempts this morning to get it to start.
the first post here - http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=18235 is exactly what I am getting, except I am in debian testing not ubuntu.