I tested this yesterday after compiling a lot of WINE versions. The game works almost flawlessly, with only one little bug which I hope a more experienced WINE user solves. There's no audio. The game thinks there's no "audio" in the system. It gets a bit laggy with recordmydesktop, I'm hoping simplescreenrecord is a different story. Tested on WINE 1.7.11 and 1.7.20 Install - dxfullsetup, xact, vcrun6 Gamepad works out of the box.
I'm going to do a few corrections here because I got the audio working, don't install xact. I'm using winetricks at the moment because I don't want to install PoL. winetricks directx9 xact_jun2010 dinput (override as builtin) To make the game stop crashing, as you will get some exceptions and random crashes. If you are using a joypad (which is a must to be honest, but not required) turn off vibration and hat switch in the control setup
Hmm... no audio? I havn't had an audio problem since Mint 16 and I never remember having no audio. You are the pulseaudio & alsa expert. I would have asked you about it. Maybe your pulseaudio fix is conflicting with the game?
I fixed it I just had to install xact_jun2010, for some reason xact didn't work. Mind you, I'm no expert haha. I did discover a lot of pulseaudio stuff that you can do via the command line and it's really really lovely. New video, me playing as demo:
