https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38581
--- Comment #13 from Stefan Dösinger stefan@codeweavers.com --- Wrt HW acceleration, it probably doesn't require it at all. However, none of my windows systems support range color key (DDCKEY_COLORSPACE) with software nor hardware blits.
I found some online evidence that old GPUs (i810, some SiS cards) support src key color spaces, but nothing from Nvidia or ATI, and nothing from the DirectX 9 era or newer.
If the game indeed needs range color keys I'll implement this in Wine, but I need a Windows machine that supports this feature to find out how it is supposed to work...