http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8251
Summary: Freelancer: unable to start Product: Wine Version: CVS Platform: PC-x86-64 URL: http://www.gamershell.com/download_1395.shtml OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-msvcrt AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: greg87@online.de
This bug depends a bit on bug #8249. After passing the splashscreen, there comes an error message "I'm sorry but the account name and the password you provided are not valid....". Using native msvcrt is fixing this.
Looking around in the bugzilla there are some other freelancer bug reports, which came obviously not in contact with this bug. So it seems it worked in late 2005 and broke then after.