http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12492
--- Comment #5 from Jeff Zaroyko jeffz@jeffz.name 2008-12-09 07:05:13 --- (In reply to comment #4)
Still only randomly starts with wine 1.1.10 and Ubuntu Hardy. Any mouse scroll wheel movement also still crashes game. This is a very popular game. I'm surprised no one has worked on getting it running yet. I've tried everything a user can, and tried all the tricks I could find to no avail.
However, when you do get it randomly running (with OpenGL) it runs like a dream at the highest levels (except lighting, I can only set it to high) on my old Nvidia 7800GT.
The non-steam version works for some people if securom is disabled, there's also bug 15717 and bug 15851. Is there an option to use OpenGL instead of DirectX?