Looks quite similar to this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13781 You could try if the patch http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=15366 helps, or you could try Eric's work around described in bug 14837: To get around this issue you can open regedit, go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\MountedDevices", and modify the key "\DosDevices\Z:" from saying "/" to saying something like "//" or "/./". Now you can launch the game (do not close regedit or the key will get regenerated) and it should get past the crash people have been experiencing (simple backtrace attached, "+relay" is necessary to get information on prior calls). Could you try if that works?