http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9210
--- Comment #35 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2010-04-17 12:20:16 --- Filed the systeminfo crash as bug 22392.
Passing -nosysteminfo (single dash!) bypasses it on 3dmark06 for me, but not on 3dmark03 (which is strange, it's a widely mentioned option, and the nosysteminfo string is in the exe). Perhaps they broke it in the 2010 release of 3dmark03.
The only thing in the current free version of 3dmark06 that appears to be enabled is the 'demo' button, and to get that to work, I have to do 'winetricks d3dx9' to avoid the error dialog "D3DXGetImageInfoFromFileInMemory failed: Invalid data (D3DXERR_INVALIDDATA)". (winetricks d3dx9_36 isn't quite sufficient, it gets past that dialog, but crashes shortly thereafter).