Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

What works

Installation, gameplay, pretty much everything

What does not

Copy protection (No CD crack required)

When first launched, main menu and all sub menus appear blank, but main menu items can be seen once the mouse pointer hovers over them. Starting a new game then canceling out of the character creation screen fixes the blank menus and allows you to access the configuration and load menus. 

Workarounds

What was not tested

Everything was tested through the beginning tutorial. 

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

 If you get the following error and performance issues:

fixme:d3d_surface:fb_copy_to_texture_direct Doing a pixel by pixel copy from the framebuffer to a texture, expect major performance issues
 Adding the following Registry key should help:
HKCU/Software/Wine/Direct3D: OffscreenRenderingMode = "fbo"
 
Also if you have a black menu when the game starts, or graphic errors, you can set the following Registry Key:
HKCU/Software/Wine/Direct3D: UseGLSL = "disabled"
 
(this also increases the performance strongly) 

(see http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys  for further information)

To force antialiasing in the game, run this in a terminal:

__GL_FSAA_MODE=4

export __GL_FSAA_MODE

wine /path/to/your/Vampire.exe -game Unofficial_Patch