https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56713
--- Comment #5 from Zsolt Vadasz zsolt_vadasz@protonmail.com --- So it seems that launching the game (GOG version, cannot speak for anything else) with `Loader.exe` rather than `Vampire.exe` fixes this issue. It also allows the user to play the Unofficial Patch. I think this solves the issue.
By the way, after some debugging, I've learnt that when launching `Vampire.exe` directly, it hangs on a call to `NtUserWaitForSingleObject` on a named pipe. This is the exact line: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/blob/master/dlls/ntdll/unix/file.c?ref...