http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23997
--- Comment #3 from GyB gyebro69@gmail.com 2010-08-14 09:42:41 --- (In reply to comment #2)
The line fixme:d3d9:Direct3DShaderValidatorCreate9 stub makes me wonder if you have all the d3d9x libraries you need. How did you install the dx9 libs? Was it with winetricks d3dx9 ?
A native d3dx9_36.dll is sufficient, but I tried with 'winetricks d3dx9', too, of course. In the full version of the game there is an option to switch between shader model 2.0 and 3.0. Neither of them has any effect on the issue.