http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29802
--- Comment #5 from Cùran debian@carbon-project.org 2012-02-05 08:42:41 CST --- (In reply to comment #4)
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What video card and driver are you using?
R710 class chip with the r600g driver (I know it worked with a r300g-powered setup (older Wine version and on a i386 system) way back, but I can't test that anymore).
Can you verify if the game starts normally on a Windows installation, using your current gfx card? There is a known problem with the game using ATi cards on Windows too, when hardware acceleration is used, and the symptom is similar to yours (black screen after the intro). You can find many articles about that on the net.
Apart from not really being comparable, as I would use a totally different driver under Windows than under Linux (the issue is generally not the GPU but some driver behaviour or a bug in the application, that doesn't like the behaviour of the driver) I can't. I don't have any Windows installation around anymore. And as you can see from my initial answer: this worked with an older Wine version on a i386 system with an R300, but I can't test that anymore as it was decommissioned.
[Software rendering] Does the game start normally that way?
No.