I just found two conflicting reports for Age of empires: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10326
Both are on Ubuntu 8.04 and 1.0-rc1. One is Silver, one is Garbage. But it is just one example.
My suggestion is to ask for more information about the test environment.
To specify it I think it would be helpfull to know the grafics chip/card and the used driver.
With the new free drivers around the block it could be even more helpfull to have this information.
The same ATI card e.g. could use Radeon, RadeonHD or the Catalyst driver.
The same is true for Nvidia with nvidia, nv and Nouveau driver.
I often read that Wine developers recommend nvidia, but I actually have good experience with radeon.
It is quite hard to get real informaltion on this topic.