[Wine] Sims 3 and Microsoft.VC80.CRT

[Enverex]

I had the Sims 3 working up until the town load section and was about to test something for Jeffz when something (I honestly don't know what) caused some breakage to do with the MS C++ libraries.

Now when I try and run the game I get:


Code:
ben at xenith:~/Wine/Games/Sims3/Game/Bin$ wine TS3.exe
fixme:ntoskrnl:KeInitializeTimerEx stub: 0x110f80 0
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50727.762)
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\MSVCP80.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Games\\Sims3\\Game\\Bin\\TS3.exe") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCR80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Games\\Sims3\\Game\\Bin\\TS3.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Games\\Sims3\\Game\\Bin\\TS3.exe" failed, status c0000135



Installing the vcrun2005, vcrun2005sp1, vcrun6 packages (via 'winetricks') had no effect. Any ideas what causes this and how to fix it?

"rm -rf ~/.wine" isn't an option as I have a lot installed and always wiping Wine for issues that can occur frequently isn't really a sensible option anyway.