https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18923
--- Comment #15 from Zachary J zakarjor@yahoo.com --- To avoid the blackscreen and/or crash aftering taskmgr switching, I followed the same instruction as that of Syberia to make it run in windowed mode:
create player.ini file in the game directory with the following content: 800 600 32 0 baseCMO.cmo