[Oblivion] broken Menu Fonts

[Dark Mayu]

Hi there dear Wine fanatics^^

I recently moved to Linux(kubuntu 8.10) and am using Wine for playing now. Everything works really well thanks to my tweaking. There is however one bug I couldn't solve myself, that are the fonts in Oblivion:

As you can see, I ran Oblivion in a virtual Desktop, the menu has some broken colours on its borders, but that is not serious. The big Problem are the letters! You cannot read anything. I changed several settings:

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bDoImageSpaceEffects=0

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bUseRefractionShader=0

e.g. remove the fonts completely. Registry settings like fbo, pbuffer and backbuffer also do not have any effect. Bloom and HDR are also working perfectly, but the fonts stay the same: unreadable. I checked the appDB and google but wasn't lucky, could somebody please help me on this?

[Cloudef]

Do you have a ATi card?
I've had similar issue with my old GPU that was ATi.

[Daemon]

As you can see, I ran Oblivion in a virtual Desktop

What about when running it fullscreen without the virtual desktop? Same thing?

[Dark Mayu]

oh, cool, some answers already^^.
@Cloudef:
Yes, I'm using an ATI GPU
(Radeon HD 2600 Pro)
The weird thing is that the fonts were normal the 1st time I ran it, but later... Well, you can see them on the screenshot

@Daemon:
I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that running Oblivion in Fullscreen does not fix the fonts.

Edit 1: Ok, I deleted my Oblivion.ini, Renderer.ini and BlendSettings.ini files in my ~/My Games/Oblivion folder, now the fonts are working! I will try to reproduce the bug and report it as soon as I tracked it


Edit 2: This ini tweak destroys the fonts:

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SIntroSequence=

reverting it to this:

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SIntroSequence=bethesda softworks HD720p.bik,2k games.bik,game studios.bik,Oblivion Legal.bik

fixes the fonts! This is unbelievable, how can infro movies keep the fonts in shape???
This fix works ingame, too, but if you exit to Main Menu from ingame, the Menu fonts will be broken again...