http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11059
--- Comment #11 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2011-06-09 15:30:45 CDT --- (In reply to comment #6)
Hi, i tried the demo but instead of a crash i get a "hang". Couldn't really figure out why :( However appdb has some interesting info: I changed the file ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/louis/My\ Documents/My\ Games/Sid\ Meier's\ Railroads\ Demo/Settings.ini
and set
SkipOpeningMovies = 1 VBlankSynch = 0
With that the hang was gone, and the game started for me. Maybe you could give that a try too.
I see the same in the demo in wine-1.3.21-290-gd9fb7b9, though only VBlankSynch is = 0 is needed.