Hello !
The Witcher 1 worked great with wine under Linux but after playing if for a few hours I forgot about it.
Now a few months after (and after updating the system and wine) I have this issue :

maximb@MaximB-HQ:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/The Witcher Enhanced Edition Directors Cut/System$ wine witcher.exe
fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone information in the registry for bias -120, std (d/m/y): 23/09/2012, dlt (d/m/y): 30/03/2012

And the game refuses to start.
It would be a pain to install the game again (looking for the DVD's I've burned with ~10GB of install files...).
Is there a simple way to fix it ?

Thanks
Maxim.

Is your timezone set? In linux that is. If you type 'date' in a terminal, does it come up with something like Sat Jan 14 07:36:32 EET 2012? "EET" is the time zone in my case.
Anyway, that error shouldn't stop you from running the game. That's the only thing it says?

The "can't find timezone" error actually can creep out Wine to the point that it won't start your executable.

Known causes include:

A 2008 version of Wine (should be long obsolete) that didn't have proper timezone data.

Not setting the timezone in linux, as neant mentioned.

Unrelated registry problems in the game.

My timezone seems to be fine :
Sat Jan 14 14:28:55 IST 2012
The WIne is up to date.
Dunno about registry problems.

After reinstalling The Witcher runs, sadly after 5 min of gameplay it crashed.