If your region/steam shows Dawn of Discovery instead of Anno 1404, use this to install the DirectX instead:

WINEPREFIX=/home/<user>/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/33340/pfx wine /home/<user>/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Dawn\ of\ Discovery/DirectX/DXSETUP.exe

Then modify the Engine.ini file as in the other reports.

To improve font rendering, install wine tricks then run:

winetricks settings fontsmooth=rgb

or if you have saved winetricks in script file:

./winetricks.sh settings fontsmooth=rgb