wine users - Dec 2010 - Victoria II Play Failure - Encountered Serious Problems. . .

Game: Victoria II
Wine version: 1.3.8
Distro: Ubuntu 10.04
Terminal Data: I'm having a really hard time figuring how to how to point
wine at the correct location in terminal, so no data for you.

Issue: Crash to desktop with the encountered a serious error
mostuselesserrorever.

Notes: Performed the install directions of both the Funtoo and Ubuntu 10.04 to
best of my ability - thought I had to proceed with the installing from disc
bits, though, as I'd misplaced the directory and so thought it wasn't
finished installing until it had done these.
Also: Will play the opening videos, but horrifically slowly and jerkily, and
crashes either at press of escape or when it finishes videos and attempts to
reach main menu.

I am uncertain how to proceed, your assistance is appreciated.

To work around http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24422, I had to do
winetricks d3dx9_36

To work around http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24217 , I had to do
winetricks dsoundbug9612

Try those and see if it helps.