http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8988
--- Comment #15 from Martin Jürgens martin@gamesplace.info 2007-08-12 12:44:34 --- Sound and video does not get choppy for me using Wine 0.9.42 on Fedora 7.
Though, I can confirm 2): I also can not see characters. The guess in a comment is that it is caused by missing Specular Lighting support by ddraw.