http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15982
--- Comment #8 from Ben Mullen brutalben@gmail.com 2010-03-11 17:54:04 --- This problem still occurs in Wine 1.2.40 on Ubuntu Lucid. My best uneducated guess is that the game is waiting for a specific trigger which is not happening under Wine. The game is still responsive (I can bring up the game menu, change settings, and restart the game,) but the game itself refuses to start.