[Alneyan]

I should clarify a bit: Wine is fine now, so any information is only going to be useful for future reference.

- Debian Sarge, running 20050310 and all relevant packages, could run 1.94 games without any significant trouble... unless my hosting problems were somehow linked to that. These produced exceptions from the game itself, but I don't have the actual error message stored anywhere.
- Ubuntu 5.10 (Badger, if I recall) and all relevant packages had no problem with the hosting part, including 1.94 games, and no music funny business. Current Wine on Ubuntu is 20050725, but I'm not sure about the one back then... they do have some packages from 20050524, but I only spent a couple of weeks on Ubuntu. No error message here.
- Debian Sid, running 0.9.12 and similarly recent packages, crashes before SEIV has got started with 1.94 games. Switching off music allows to work around the problem (hosting hasn't been tried out yet). I gather we both get the same sort of output from Wine itself when not editing the settings.

So, different system setups have ended up giving relatively different results, all of them put under the same play conditions, patches and the like. Was that your experience also? I haven't done much investigating though, as I retain Wine solely for SEIV.