It runs with some effort; I'm using wine-tkg-protonified based on Wine 8.0rc4 (specifically, wine-tkg-protonified-git-8.0rc4.r0.g89374093). I used taskset to limit the number of cores it sees to two. It was a pretty buggy game back when it was new and it still is to this day. Outside of the crashes, there are cursor glitches (disappears/flickers, helped some by limiting cores) and the audio cuts out before the spoken dialog finishes, likely due to the programmers' waiting on the CD access to finish before reverting to the game UI instead of using a timer. FWIW, it doesn't really feel like a TM game since the usual cast of characters isn't there, just Tex.
Digital Sound Initialization Error (Intel RSX 3D drivers are not installed)
I made a custom verb for Protontricks in ProtonGE 8.12 to install RSX3d.
LAV Filters need to be installed for video to work correctly and editing the registry to avoid ffdshow compatibility manager popup:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\ffdshow",'blacklist','REG_SZ','OVERSEER.EXE'
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\ffdshow_audio",'blacklist','REG_SZ','OVERSEER.EXE'
DgVoodoo for textures, also made a verb to with these changes in [DirectX] section of dgvoodoo.conf:
Filtering = 16
KeepFilterIfPointSampled = true
Antialiasing = 8x
dgVoodooWatermark = false
proton 6.3-1x1 2021-04
Compatibility Report
System Information
I confirm:
Proton log: steam-302370.log
Symptoms
Game starts and reports "Digital Sound Initialization Error: Another application is currently using the Sound Device or Intel RSX 3D drivers are not installed.", after clicking OK, it shows what looks like an old-school NTSC test pattern for a few seconds, then exits.
Reproduction
Just start the game with Proton 6.3-1 selected as the compatibility tool.
Other notes
Being designed back in the Windows 95 era, this game is notoriously difficult to get working on modern versions of Windows. Most of the discussions threads on Steam are about just trying to get it working, as are all the guides.
Two guides, in case the software installations involved might give some clues as to how to fix this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1299432181
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2130326831