has anyone gotten this game to work in gpl'ed wine yet? the launcher starts up flawlessly and much faster than with cedega (i have IE installed too so it looks like on windows). but it dies once the game starts. so i play with a version of cedega like 4 upgrades old (the last one i paid for).
i run xfce4 as my desktop, and even with numerous programs in the background and several apps forwarded over ssh to another computer i don't notice any slowdowns (p4 2.2ghz, 768mb of ram, and an amazing 64mb nvidia card), so it's cool on the performance front. just seems that wine is the better coded program until directx kicks in.