In http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=12714 a user reported
that on the free app 4nec2x from http://home.ict.nl/~arivoors,
"If I open the 3d window (by pushing F9), the performance is as is to be expected unless you close the 3d window before closing the rest of the session. You get the following error: 
ResizeWindowed--DX-error -2147467259:E_FAIL and a stop statement afterwards in a separate window. ... 
This does not occur if running Windoz 7 or XP Pro. It has done it for all versions of Wine up to my now 1.3.23. It has done it on Mint 10, Mint 11, OpenSuse 11.3, Ubuntu 10.04, and Ubuntu 11.04. My NVidia drivers are latest and greatest."

I verified the app worked properly in win7, and reproduced the problem
in ubuntu 11.04 / wine-1.3.23 / GeForce GT 220 / 270.41.06
by starting the app, pressing f9, closing the 3d window, and pressing f9
again.  The log shows
fixme:d3d:wined3d_device_reset Cannot change the device window yet.
err:d3d:context_create Failed to retrieve a device context.
If you click through the app's error dialog, you get a wine crash:

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000f28 in 32-bit code (0x4d8be61b).
Backtrace:
=>0 context_update_window+0xb(context=(nil)) [dlls/wined3d/context.c:782] 
  1 context_acquire+0x9b(device=0x41855c0, target=(nil)) [dlls/wined3d/context.c:1882]
  2 wined3d_device_uninit_3d+0x55(device=0x41855c0) [dlls/wined3d/device.c:1412] 
  3 IDirect3DDevice8Impl_Release+0xc7(iface=0x417d778) [dlls/d3d8/device.c:317] 
  4 0x6a9f93df in msvbvm60 (+0x293de) (0x0032f904)