I tried running Victoria 2 demo on a system with 2GB of RAM, and it choked every time... then I got a clue and looked at the appdb page, http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=21110&iTestingId=56100 winetricks dsoundbug9612 got me past that problem. After that, I didn't have any problem. The demo seems to display text fine here. Can you reproduce it with the demo, http://www.fileplanet.com/215199/210000/fileinfo/Victoria-2-Demo ? winetricks corefonts might be a good idea, not sure if the game uses those fonts though.
