I test the game on 3 different PC's each without issues, running a different distro: Mint 18.1, Debian 9, Ubuntu 18.04. Have you tried to run the game in a clean prefix? It turns out this issue was due to a bug in WINE that only occurred for CPUs with more than 16 logical processors (the CPU mask format changes and some of the functions couldn't handle the new format): https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45453 The good news is that I was able to work with one of the WINE devs to fix the bug and it was included in the WINE 4.0-rc1 release I read that one in the changelog, is 16 Logical processors as in 8 Cores + 8 Threads or 16 Real Cores? On my 1700X it runs fine on all 16, however performance is better if I limit it to the first 8 threads (taskset -c 0-7). I'm planning to update the Wine version when 4.0 is released however there's 1 small problem, from what I read, the PBA patches are having issues as of 3.21.In Intel processors, logical cores is 2x physical cores because of hyper-threading. As I understand the bug, it only occurs on architectures that supports MORE than 16 logical CPUs, so it's only an issue for really new ones like Skylake-X or Threadripper