<r> I managed to get rid of the glitches by installing the original DirectX libraries. I am using Crossover Office, but the same may also use on default wine.<br/>
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Unfortunately, the graphics got a lot slower after this, there's a noticable delay on each mouse click... Might be tolerable ...

<r> I found that the crashes seem to be caused by attempts to play a sound: After renaming/deleting ./drive_c/Matrix Games/Gary Grigsby's War in the West/Dat/sound they disappeared for me [:)] <br/>
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There are several graphical issues though, e.g the lines visualizing flight paths are not ...

<t> For me (running Wine under Linux) the overlap disappears if I use Windowed mode (by changing Windowed=No to Windowed=Yes in TOTH's Configuration.ini) and disable "Emulate a virtual desktop" in the wine settings. Also, the window resolution (Sizex and Sizey in Configuration.ini) must be smaller ...

Russian Civil War

ORIGINAL: Bletchley_Geek

Would people be interested in a "developer blog" of sorts?

Definitely!

Feels much more responsive now, thanks for the quick fix!