https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27078
--- Comment #9 from Robert Walker bob.mt.wya@gmail.com --- (In reply to winetest from comment #8)
Can be closed? Not much feedback and the last comment says it works...
I spoke to soon! Sorry forgot to update. The issue appears to depend on what section of the game is being reloaded (Steam Cloud save). I had no issues the first play through - then after that the crash reproduceably occurred right at startup.
I needed:
winetricks d3dcompiler_43 d3dx9_43
to workaround the issue still. That was with vanilla Wine 1.9.18 (as per comment 7).