http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23170
--- Comment #5 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2011-05-15 19:56:30 CDT --- Yes, Wine's D3DXFilterTexture seems to let this game run fine microsoft-free once you've run it once with native d3dx9_36.
Now I guess we just need the effects framework...