[Bug 12652] Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 fails to launch (number of quality levels for D3DMULTISAMPLE_NONMASKABLE multiple-sample type must not exceed 8)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12652

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--- Comment #48 from Jacob Mischka  ---
(In reply to Anastasius Focht from comment #47)
> Hello folks,
>
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> what is the best approach to solving this problem?
> --- quote ---
>
> well, since this seems to be NVIDIA specific ... you could:
> - patch Wine D3D to clamp reported quality levels to 8 (see my comment #42)
> - try 'Nouveau' open source driver for NVIDIA cards
> - use AMD or Intel GPU
>
> Besides that you could run D3D FSAAViewer tool on the same machine in
> Windows to provide some infos to Wine D3D developers:
>
> http://wenchy.net/old/d3d_fsaaviewer/DX9FSAAViewer54.zip
>
> 'File' -> 'Config display' -> select 'D3DMULTISAMPLE_NONMASKABLE'
> multisample type and report the number of 'Multisample Quality' levels in
> the drop-down list box shown below.
> Additionally graphics card specs (type/model) and used driver version.
>
> Regards

I'm guessing there's no way to clamp the reported quality levels via
nvidia-settings or any application profiles, correct?

Would it be possible for someone who knows what they're doing to create a patch
that clamps it to 8 similarly as in comment #42? I don't really know my way
around editing wine enough to want to break it myself if at all possible.

Thank you!