https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35731
--- Comment #2 from Kevin Meyer billy65bob@gmail.com --- I'm afraid I don't know. I think similar issues may have existed when I last attempted to play startopia many, many releases ago, but I can't remember anything from back then.
You can probably reproduce the issues with the demo version, though it seems the 1.01B patch changes the initialization behaviour a bit, so you'll have to edit the CardID.Tom file, so the 'Unknown' section contains these lines so you get the renderer into a similar state to what I have.
Tweak:SRT_ENABLE 1 Tweak:IMPOSTOR_ENABLE 1
I believe the game also recently got a steam release that is fully patched to 1.01B