http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7091
------- Additional Comments From paran+wine@lysator.liu.se 2007-09-01 09:49 -------
Please, software/emulated shaders have no meaning - do not use them.
Please, don't put settings with no meaning in winecfg - users will use them.
If anything, try with GLSL enabled.
I didn't know that support existed. The only place this seems to be documented is this wiki-page http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectX-Shaders that I have found after your comment.
Anyway, enabling UseGLSL don't seem to make any difference. Tell me if you wan't a trace with it enabled.
Please update your OS/Hardware
Could you be a bit more specific with what I need to update?
I already run the latest released Ubuntu (6.10, released 2006-10-26). The only thing I can think of that might need upgrading is the NVIDIA drivers. 6.10 has version 1.0.8776 and I know that the 1.0.9***-drivers have some major improvements. Do Wine need the 9***-drivers for all shader support?
You also mention hardware. My graphics card is a GeForce FX5200 which supports shaders 2.0 (with poor performance), but this game only requires DirectX 8.