I tried a lot of different things: upgrading the kernel, upgrading the nvidia driver, newer version of wine etc, installing packages etc. etc.. But these sometimes seem to introduce new problems and not solve the original one. BUT in the end I did find a solution: run regedit and add the following key value pairs (all strings) in: HYKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Wine > Direct3D UseGLSL: disabled OffscreenRenderingMode: fbo DirectDrawRenderer: opengl VideoMemorySize: 768 (since I have a 768 MB geforce GTX 460) it worked for me :)
