http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12663
Summary: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 demo has invisible cars Product: Wine Version: 0.9.59. Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor Priority: P2 Component: directx-d3d AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: echidnaman@gmail.com
Actually in 0.9.60, but there isn't an option for that yet...
In both the car selection screen and the races, the cars in the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit demo are all but invisible. The only trace of them in the race is the shadows and the sparks that fly when you hit stuff.
The cars used to be rendered perpendicular and textureless (See bug 10613). Now they don't render at all, and the output at the command line is decidedly different. (See attached file)
When you have vertex/pixel shaders turned off manually in winecfg, you get Bug 12252.
The game should run without shaders, as it supports nvidia chipsets all the way back to the original GeForce. My card is an nvidia Geforce 4 MX 440 with the latest nvidia drivers for the card.