blakstar: If I can get the game working 100% under Debian, with no winetricks, you shouldn't need to install quartz.
If I can, I'll put together another Linux machine, and see what I can produce -- you run Arch, don't you. Granted, I won't necessarily be able to completely replicate the hardware, but much of it is fairly similar these days.
JudasIscariot: It's Antergos, an Arch-based distro that uses all of the official Arch repos.
I only suggested quartz because other Paradox games whined about quartz being missing in terminal :)
Please note -- this is not actually a game report. -- just trying to help out Judas!
OK, here's my progress report so far -- I set up Antergos (2016.3.20-i686 (32-bit)) on an old laptop of mine. Please note that I chose the MATE desktop, since it was one of the lighter ones, given the age of the laptop.
Specs are as follows:
CPU: AMD Sempron 3200+
GFX Card: Nvidia GeForce 6100 Go
GFX Driver Version: 304.131-11
RAM: 2GB
Wine version: 1.9.8-1 w/ no winetricks installed at all
I tried both
Europa Universalis 2 and
Crusader Kings Complete. Apart from some minor flickering when changing resolutions, both games played their opening videos just fine, and also allowed me to skip them when I pressed the ESC key.
Europa Universalis 2 froze the first time, when setting up the sound during game initialization, but when I tried another couple of times, it was just fine, so I put that down to some random glitch.
Nothing else had been installed on the OS, just the necessary files (Wine plus dependencies and the Nvidia driver) to run the two games.
EDIT: Slight typo in gfx card spec -- typed 600, instead of 6100