https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39471
--- Comment #31 from Andrew Eikum aeikum@codeweavers.com --- (In reply to fjfrackiewicz from comment #28)
I forgot to mention that the movies work as they would in a Windows installation. No renaming, no need to press the Escape button to avoid the "New Game" crash. I do have to say that the patch offered here makes a world of difference :)
I don't think that patch "fixed" this issue. My guess is one of the winetricks packages (wmp9?) fixed it. Can you attach another log in your working prefix? Just get to the point where the game would fail, and then quit. That should tell us what changed to fix this for you.