Further info (in the other thread) has the strong possibility of it being driver related.
I have a a dual core with Fedora 25 which still has an older version of wine.
And, I still have Fedora 20 with 1.7.44 which everything I tried to run worked.
I didn't reinstall XP because I didn't want to fight the activation garbage.
Just need to finish re-arranging the room and get the Dual core setup so I can use it.
It's currently sitting on the desktop with the keyboard, mouse, and the 40" TV that I got for it.
Blackjack174 experienced the same thing, so I'm not alone here!
But in the mean time I've been playing other things. Like Crysis!
Barracuda