wine users - Mar 2009 - Left 4 dead no text in main menu

I have:
Wine 1.1.18 
latest steam version - running
Left 4 dead
Ubuntu Linux 8.10

2gb ram
710 phenom 2 triple core
sapphire ATI 4850 - ati drivers seem to work fine for native linux games

The game installs fine and the movies play fine, but when I get to the main menu
the text is invisible. What can I do?

sqeaky wrote:
> I have:
> Wine 1.1.18 
> latest steam version - running
> Left 4 dead
> Ubuntu Linux 8.10
> 
> 2gb ram
> 710 phenom 2 triple core
> sapphire ATI 4850 - ati drivers seem to work fine for native linux games
> 
> The game installs fine and the movies play fine, but when I get to the main
menu the text is invisible. What can I do?

Enable GLSL

I googled how to do that.

I made a registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D
 with a UseGLSL string set to 1

I had to make Direct3D Key

This did not seem to have any affect