[Wine] empire total war stuck at startup (copyright) page

[krenault35]

Hi,

This is my second day since owning empire total war. Really looking forward to playing it, but I have not. I'm using the latest wine program. I follow the winehq 's description for installing empire total war (installing d3dx9, changing registry, placing MSVCP80.dll at system32 and winecfg). Now, I'm stuck at the startup page (where all the copyright details are). Loading stops and if i drag anything pass this page, it leaves a shadow. 

I would really appreciate if anyone helps me out. I will paste the terminal output in another post. 

Thanks ahead of time.