http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22662
--- Comment #47 from Xavier Vachon xvachon@gmail.com 2010-10-28 10:12:38 CDT --- I tested again this morning just to double check your comments. Aside from d3dx9_36, Gecko has to be installed because the game shows a news panel before loading. I also had a peak in windows/system32 to see if the game installed msvcrt overrides, and it installed none. I'm curious to know why you get these lines and I don't:
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50727.762)
wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000004 at address (nil) (thread 0030), starting debugger...
What is your wine version, OS and graphic driver? I tested this with wine-1.3.5-349-g8cf585f, which is current git, Gentoo Linux X64 and Nvidia drivers 260.19.12.