[Wine] Spore no-go

[styleruk]

What on earth has happened to spore.  It used to work fine with wine 1.1.12, no real problems.  Picked it up today to have a game and nothing, it tries to load and don't even get to the front screen.
I have wine 1.1.16 and have downgraded to 1.1.13 with no joy.
I have Nvidia graphics driver 177, downgraded to 173 and no joy.

That is a shame, I did enjoy that game and now it's not working.  Can anyone suggest anything?

I use, Ubuntu 8.10

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