http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25728
--- Comment #6 from Alexey Loukianov mooroon2@mail.ru 2011-10-14 08:45:05 CDT --- Had some free time today and so I had tried to look at the issue under OllyDBG/winedbg. As the game copy I have is a Steam release it's pretty hard to analyze such executables under debugger. So I tried to fool the dog: downloaded latest patch for original version of UFO:ET from Chaos Concept official site and got UFO_ET.exe from there - I had heard that they had removed copy protection in latest patch for original version so I was hoping it would easier to debug the crash in case it would behave the same UFO:ET Gold behaved. Unfortunately it's not the case.
Game launches up and works pretty good when using data files from Steam release of UFO:ET Gold + UFO_ET.exe from latest official patch, including native dsound/dmusic workaround working with Wine version prior to 1.3.25. But the trouble is there's no crash at all when running it with builtin dsound/dmusic. Game simply starts without sound/music and that's pretty much all the story :-(. I had sent a mail to the Chaos Concept support in hopes that they would provide me with DRM-freem UFO_ET.exe from "Gold" version which would crash just like Steam version does and thus I would finally able to lay my hand over it under debugger. Let's wait and hope.