Brainzyy: I tried the new version and used vcrun2008, vcrun2010 and vcrun2012 winetricks, but same result. Only a black screen.
On Linux wine the only needed native library package was installed directly by the game's installer. Nothing is needed to be added by the user.
I think something like this, was the result on FreeBSD wine too. I'll see again what I can do, but the installed version of wine is not the most current and I don't have the time to compile any newer version.
EDIT: Related systems, related problems!
Star Rules 2 on FreeBSD 11.0 64-bit, running wine-1.9.19 (devel 32-bit from ports) shows a black screen. It doesn't freeze, but it cannot display anything, CPU usage remains at normal level and the whole system is responsive. The screen remains black though.
I force reinstall vcrun2010, but it didn't help.
Error messages on terminal before the process was manually killed. I don't think it's anything particularly useful.
$ cd .wine_star_ruler_2/drive_c/GOG\ Games/Star\ Ruler\ 2/
$ WINEPREFIX=~/.wine_star_ruler_2/ wine Star\ Ruler\ 2.exe
$ err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation 0x0 1 0x0 0 stub
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f4a8,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW (L"\\\\.\\DISPLAY1",0,0x33f160,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),1,0x33f4a8,0x00000000), stub!