https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32092
--- Comment #87 from Paul Gofman gofmanp@gmail.com --- (In reply to Bruno Jesus from comment #86)
There are around 7 replies stating that the updated version of the game no longer suffers from this issue, it could be abandoned/notourbug but since Paul Gofman had a patch for this I'll let him or the 3D guys say if it is worth more efforts.
I'm referring to comment 68 and Henri's reply in comment 72 and also 73 is useful to the discussion.
My patch was removing D3DFMT_A8B8G8R8 texture format support. This solved the issue (when it was reproducible) and I verified that at least with some cards this format is not supported on Windows 7. But if now there is no known app depends on NOT supporting this format, I would not suggest removing it. Anyway the decision to remove this format for d3d9 would probably need more testing (at least it is not known to me how universally this format is unavailable) on different hardware and Windows version.
So my understanding is that this patch is not needed (unless any new app requiring that will be encountered) and this bug can be safely closed.