http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17265
Summary: Trackmania United Forever: enhanced graphic features are unavailable Product: Wine Version: 1.1.14 Platform: All URL: http://www.trackmania.com/ OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: directx-d3d AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dendron2000@mail.ru
Enhanced graphic features, such as SM (Shader Model) 2.0, SM 3.0, anti-aliasing are not working under wine. When configuring the game, SM 3.0 and anti-aliasing settings display 'N/A'. You can select them anyway, but they won't work in game. SM 2.0 is available, but it seems it doesn't work, too.
I have Xubuntu 8.10 installed on a notebook with GF6600 Go with nvidia binary drivers. I also have d3dx9_27.dll, d3dx9_30.dll and d3dx9_33.dll files from orgiginal DX (the game requires them).
The bug happens in a free version (Trackmania Nations Forever) too, as both games share the engine.
Previous versions of wine didn't work with SM > 1.0 (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13191). It was fixed later, but it seems a simple workaround was made.