wine users - Aug 2011 - Hitman Contracts: Human figures are rendered black

Wine version: wine-1.3.26
Linux arneb 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Aug 16 08:44:20 CEST 2011 x86_64 AMD
Phenom(tm) II X2 545 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

All the characters in the game (humans, dogs, horses, etc) are rendered black
instead of their normal colors. Everything else appears to work normally.

[img]http://imagebin.org/index.php?mode=image&id=168674[/img]
The player, and the guards standing far away, are both black.

The unability to see player's attire or the opponents' makes the game
much more complex than it originally was. Its a guessing game, much more tricky
and annoying.

I had an epic DUH feeling after having found a fix after completing the game.
The fix, as described here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=8914 :is to
disable Vertex shaders in Graphics tab on winecfg.

Yes, but you have to use the 1.1.32 wine version or 1.1.25 or it will not work.