http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30898
--- Comment #9 from Jerry Story story.jerry@gmail.com 2012-06-12 16:06:15 CDT --- (In reply to comment #8)
That command works around one possible problem with ubuntu 12.04 (at least until next reboot). Does it help your problem?
Age of Empires Rise of Rome still doesn't run on xubuntu 12.04, wine 1.4.