http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4904
------- Additional Comments From sini.ruohomaa@cs.helsinki.fi 2006-26-07 13:49 ------- It turned out my crash could be replicated on an Nvidia system with no cd-rom suspiciousness. After moving out the old .wine directory (the two machines had synced configurations several years ago, probably when .wine/config was still in use, and then developed their own ways) and recreating dosdevices links manually, Warcraft III runs perfectly! This removal included erasing the changes Warcraft III's install made to the registry files.
I also installed flux, bison and the bunch of -dev files Wine-howtos suggest prior to the new test since I was preparing to compile from scratch, in case this had an effect. I still ran the Ubuntu 0.9.17 package wine, though.
In any case, I'm happy, thanks to Jesse for the help! :)