Benjamin, your old wine version should work fine but the new one should work too.
Ok, now we should try your problem:
Did you have a ati graphic card ? If you have one then please change in your ~/.wine directory the config file section "x11drv" to
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[x11drv]
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"DGA" = "N"
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If this doesn't help then please add your wine config file this (near simliars entries)
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[AppDefaults\\div.exe\\x11drv]
"Managed" = "Y"
"Desktop" = "800x600"
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Where the values for "Desktop" should be the same as you configure <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" />.
Personally I used for my testing this above values on a 1024x768 (1280x800) screen because the game doesn't run in fullscreen (but big enough to see something) and I can look into the messages which appear on the X-terminal (aterm in my case).
Which distro (and version) did you use, Benjamin ?