http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3295
Summary: Wine fails to run applications because it does not change to their directories when running them. Product: Wine Version: 20050419 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: critical Priority: P1 Component: wine-binary AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: lxtanner@yahoo.co.uk
Many applications fail to find their data files simply because Wine does not change to their parent directories before running them (which is Windows' default behaviour - many applications look for their data files in relative paths).