https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10570
Matheus matheus.venturini@acad.ufsm.br changed:
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--- Comment #28 from Matheus matheus.venturini@acad.ufsm.br --- This is not a problem with Wine, this is actually a well known bug in this particular level in Thief 2. In fact there is this thread on the developer's forum which was made just a little over one month after the game's release in 2000 talking about it:
"I have a wierd problem with LOTP [the mission this issue is referring to]: when I turn on the fog effects, it appears to be daylight (which is wierd considering there are so many sleeping people). When I turn off the fog, it is night as usual. Does this happen to anyone else? Is is a bug? Or is it just some problem with my hardware and settings?
It happens both when I run the game with my Voodoo2 SLIs and my TNT. Strangely, the fog in the demo mission did NOT cause this problem and looked great. Any ideas and/or suggestions would be appreciated."
Reply: "You can't fix this problem to my knowledge. That is just the way the level is. The fogging in that one is not very good. There is nothing to worry about because in a later mission you see more fog and it looks much better."
-- https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43173
In this other thread from 2005, one of the users said:
"This is a KNOWN problem with Life of the Party, it doesn't matter what video card or drivers you use. There was a post from Emil (who created the mission) in the forum a long time ago that basically said the fog in that mission was broken, and that was one of the reasons they decided to make the fog off by default in Thief2... "
-- https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95838
Emil in this case refers to Emil Pagliarulo, one of the developers of the game.
From the time they made the demo to when they shipped the game, they accidentally broke the fog in this level and made it really weird for everyone, regardless of hardware configuration. In fact, it's not uncommon to see discussions to this day of whether the developers intended for the level to take place during early evening or at night since it depends on the broken fog effect being turned on/off. When I played the GOG version of the game I did not have any problem since this version comes with the fan-made patch T2Fix and a rewritten engine called NewDark which fixes the fog problem in this level.
In summary, the vanilla version of this game has buggy fog in this level because of an error on part of the developers. When using the T2Fix patch, this level does not have any problem.
At the time this issue was created, the T2Fix patch and NewDark did not exist. The demo link listed at comment 22 does not include these patches, despite what the user said.
I believe this issue should be marked as solved.