[Bug 35998] New: American Conquest: Divided Nation refuses to start. (Black Screen followed by crash).

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35998

Bug ID: 35998
           Summary: American Conquest: Divided Nation refuses to start.
                    (Black Screen followed by crash).
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.16
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]

I'm trying to play American Conquest: Divided Nations, but when I load it up, I
get a flash of black screen followed by a CTD.  The console output is as
follows:

bash-4.2$ wine DMCR.exe
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to
RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f5f8,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f828,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),1,0x33f828,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f6a8,0x00000000), stub!
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to
RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:mmio:MMIO_ParseExtA No extension in szFileName: "Sound\new\dr+flute2.wav"
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f458,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d_surface:d3dfmt_p8_init_palette No palette set.

Note that I installed this game according to the instructions listed on the
following appdb page:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=24902 , including
the winecfg changes, the external patch, deleting the video directory, and
setting ddraw to native for this app.

I have also installed the original American Conquest demo, and I can confirm it
works with wine 1.7.12, but not wine 1.7.16, so I am presuming there is a
regression between these two releases.  The American Conquest: Divided Nation
full version does not run with either release, and shows the same error
messages for both wine releases.  Note also I have used a nocd to get around
Divided Nations Starforce (III?) protection.  The demo does not have said
protection, so not relevant in that case.

System:
Slackware 14.1 x86_64 with alien multilib pack.
Xorg 1.15.0
NVIDIA Proprietary Blob 334.21 /w Geforce GTX 285m
Pulseaudio 5.0
Wine 1.7.12