http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt says you should try to verify that the appdb is right when it says the app is platinum with a particular old version of wine before declaring a regression. Did you try that? In this case, the appdb says it was platinum with wine-0.9.25, but when I try it under that version here, I get a crash, Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0xffffffff in 32-bit code (0x7bc64f8f). Running with current wine gets the same kind of error you had, fixme:ddraw:VGA_ioport_out Unsupported index, register 0x3c4: 0x02 but doesn't crash. So on this machine, it's working *better* than wine-0.9.25. (I'm using the old dapper wine-0.9.25 package on gutsy... maybe that's the problem?)