https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27324
--- Comment #4 from Béla Gyebrószki gyebro69@gmail.com --- Still present in wine-1.7.34-36-g4493323
If I move the installed game from it's original install location, which is '/drive_c/Program Files/DotEmu/All Cossacks And American Conquest Series/Cossacks II - Battle For Europe' up one directory level: '/drive_c/Program Files/DotEmu/Cossacks II - Battle For Europe' ...then the game starts fine.