http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9665
--- Comment #23 from Martin deadlock@start.no 2008-02-19 17:43:04 --- With wine version 0.9.55 it's possible to start the game by using a 3dfx wrapper. With the latest drivers for my graphics card in Windows XP, the game will start, but it will crash if I select Direct3D mode. But under wine, using the latest drivers for my graphics card, the game crash at the beginning unless I use a 3dfx wrapper.
This is an improvement, since it used to crash no matter if I tried to run the game with a 3dfx wrapper or not(the game checks for 3dfx before it checks for DirectDraw and then for Direct3D). It seems like the Direct3D crash is a driver issue, and not a wine issue. The part that seems to be a wine issues is that the game will crash if it detects that Direct3D is available under startup(which it doesn't do in Windows XP.)