http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30405
--- Comment #12 from Henri Verbeet hverbeet@gmail.com 2012-11-05 04:13:58 CST --- (In reply to comment #11)
This extract from console log might be an explanation:
That shouldn't cause crashes, though "fixme:d3dx:d3dx9_base_effect_init HLSL ascii effects not supported, yet" might. You may want to give native d3dx9 / d3dcompiler a try. If that doesn't help, you'll probably want a "+seh,+tid,+ddraw,+d3d9,+d3d" log.