http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17491
--- Comment #2 from Michael P. ploujj@gmail.com 2009-05-09 21:18:30 --- I can confirm this with wine 1.1.15 installed from Fedora's repositories in Fedora 10 x86_64. This seems like a rather serious issue since literally the whole screen goes black and killing wine/googleearth does not help. X becomes essentially unusable. My wine output is slightly different (it doesn't have d3d errors), so I'm going to attach it here for reference.
Google Earth: googleearth-win-plus-4.3.7284.3916 Graphics card: GeForce 8600 GTS/PCI/SSE2 Driver: NVIDIA 177.82 (installed from the rpmfusion repository)