http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15162
--- Comment #18 from Sam skipsey aoanla@yahoo.com 2008-10-18 07:31:52 --- Definitely not fixed with Wine 1.1.6 and nVidia driver release 177.80 for me - with -dxlevel 81 set, the display is still corrupted on changing the graphics setting. With -dxlevel 95 set, game doesn't appear to get to the menu (we get the "Loading..." screen with background for many minutes, with nothing apparently happening - it looks like the game has crashed at this point).
Still Ubuntu 8.04 64bit, 8800 GT.
I'll try compiling with the patch again with 1.1.6 and see if that fixes it for me.