https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53372
--- Comment #13 from Zeb Figura z.figura12@gmail.com --- (In reply to Patrick Hibbs from comment #10)
Reverting 18ae96e5fb does seem to have fixed the deadlocking. I've yet to encounter it after reverting the patch, and I've started the game around ten times. (As with the previous tests.)
I'll go ahead and split out that issue to a separate bug.
For reference, this is bug 53428.