[Bug 29000] New: Spectromancer refuses to start: 'Failed to init D3D8 object!'

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29000

Bug #: 29000
           Summary: Spectromancer refuses to start: 'Failed to init D3D8
                    object!'
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.32
          Platform: x86
               URL: http://spectromancer.com/files/smsetup.exe
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: download, regression
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: directx-d3d
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]
    Classification: Unclassified
   Regression SHA1: 7b0ba5153f3e42f31b922e5eb997d5e1d0cb44d4

In Wine-1.3.32 the game is showing the following error message, shortly after
starting:
Failed to init D3D8 object!

No terminal output at all.

Steps to reproduce the problem in the demo:
After a successful installation, start the demo by either launcher.exe or
spectromancer.exe...you will be greeted with the mentioned error message.

The game starts fine in 1.3.31, and the result of the regression test:

7b0ba5153f3e42f31b922e5eb997d5e1d0cb44d4 is the first bad commit
commit 7b0ba5153f3e42f31b922e5eb997d5e1d0cb44d4
Author: Matteo Bruni 
Date:   Thu Nov 3 15:26:36 2011 +0100

wined3d: Test more thoroughly for post-pixelshader blending support, try on
more texture formats.

:040000 040000 4ccfbad52a0797cdd96f4efccafeac45c6ce688a
026bd6e57c4cbbf8c906eddcb43527ffdbe233f7 M    dlls

The reverted patch fixed the problem.

Fedora 15 x86
Nvidia 250 / driver 280.13
X.Org X Server 1.10.4