> in the compatibility page or whatever, people have had this problem before
and I don't think anyone has fixed it.
As you say, this is a long-known bug:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2905
Nobody's posted updated information about this problem in either the AppDB
or the bug report in over a year. You can make yourself useful by posting test
results from the current development release in both.
In the future, when asking questions, include your distro, Wine version, and for
games, graphics card and drivers. And learn to punctuate your sentences--most of
the people who help on this forum will simply ignore a rambling mess like the
one you initially posted.