I'm attempting to run Arcanum using Wine on my Arch Linux laptop. However, I've got an "interesting" problem. I can make it to the main menu, but my cursor is stuck in the lower right corner. I'm able to move it around a bit, but its like it's trapped in a box. I can't move it far enough to even reach a menu option, so I have to quit via alt+F4.

Now for the technical details. My laptop is an Asus G1. My version of wine is 1.5.5, and was downloaded and installed via Arch's package manager, pacman. I'm invoking Arcanum via the command line with 'wine Arcanum.exe -no3d -doublebuffer'. I've also used winecfg to create a profile for Arcanum. The profile is configured to run under Windows XP, with the window manager decorating and controlling the windows. I've also experimented with the capture mouse in full-screen windows and emulate a virtual desktop options, with the latter set to a resolution of 1680x1050, although I have tried lower numbers. I haven't mucked around with wine's command line options, though.

I've also looked at Arcanum's entry in the WineDB. However, the GoG version is listed a platinum. None of the reported issues match what I'm seeing.

I do get some command line output when invoking Arcanum. I get this:
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fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f6ec,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d_surface:wined3d_surface_flip Ignoring flags 0x1.
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Based on what I've seen in my research, fixme tags are developer comments and generally aren't indicative of a problem.

No matter what combinations of options I try, I always see the same behavior with the cursor. Anyone have any suggestions?

I'm running the game flalessly on Mac OS X using Wine 1.3.36. Try using an older Wine version, newer is not always better. The current stable one is 1.4. Try without -no3d and -doublebuffer, those could cause problems as well.

I tried version 1.4 too, which I had to compile from source. When I tried using that one, Arcanum wouldn't even load.

I should have posted this sooner, but it turned out that the problem was with an out-of-date library in Arch Linux itself, not an issue with Wine. I issued a full system update, which resolved the bug. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly which library was at fault.