https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41135
--- Comment #11 from fjfrackiewicz@gmail.com --- (In reply to sworddragon2 from comment #10)
Edit: I wonder if the hanging now with Wine 1.9.17 is the same issue as bug #41189. If yes it would be interesting to know if Wine still hangs (especially if set to Windows 7) after it is fixed.
If you know how to run a regression test, you should be able to see this for yourself :) Just set Wine 1.9.16 as the "good" wine and Wine 1.9.17 as the "bad" wine.
In any case, for me, the game would simply hang if I attempted to run it in Windows 7 mode in Wine 1.9.16 but would run in WinXP mode.