http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15737
--- Comment #53 from Nick nick@customdesigns.ca 2009-10-19 12:12:46 --- Not sure if you meant 32-bit hardware specifically, but I'm running 32-bit Gentoo even though my CPU is 64-bit. I'm experiencing this issue still, though I had commented before I thought a kernel upgrade had fixed it. Mine starts probably 60-70% of the time.
Loading the CPU doesn't seem to be foolproof for me either.
I dual boot and run Eve in WinXP often (read: daily), and have not seen this issue there. I don't think it's an Eve issue, seems to be a Linux/Wine issue somewhere.