http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15157
--- Comment #7 from Alexander Dorofeyev alexd4@inbox.lv 2009-01-06 13:20:46 --- I tried repeatedly, but cannot reproduce this. Just tested again in wine 1.1.11. Thief Gold and System Shock 2, both start up ok and work. Looks like sound is broken in this version, both in cutscenes and the rest of the game, but this appears to be a separate and unrelated regression.
Please make sure to retest with a blank newly created Wine prefix, all default settings. Also ensure that indeo codecs do get fully and properly installed during the game setup. One of known crashes of these games is when codecs do not get installed. Simply saying yes to install codecs may not be enough as the codec setup included on game CDs doesn't work very stable in Wine and often crashes silently, without actually completing the job. Watch out for exception or crash messages in the console during setup. If that's the problem, it can be fixed by downloading a more modern Intel Indeo codec package (available in lots of places on the net), which is less bug-prone.