Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

What works

• I copied over the 3 CDs to one folder to install, which works. Can't tell on using the bare CDs.
• Now and then you see some graphics glitches, but everything seems to work quite fine

What does not

• If you happen to use the console, you might not be able to return to the game. If that happens, use the console to save via "save 'savegame_name' and "load 'savegame name'"
• The fonts are a bit messy, installing all fonts via winetricks did not help here
• In some situations the game goes to slideshow modus. To fix that, set OffscreenRenderingMode to "fbo" and it runs flawless again
  

Workarounds

What was not tested

• Finishing the game
• Bothering with CD check, used a patch for that
  

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I had some strange artifacts after a while playing. I still have to figure out where they come from.

 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