Broken text in Fallout 3

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Broken text in Fallout 3

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Hey, Wine citizens!

What happened: after getting out of the Vault 101 some text started to look cursed and bad, even though earlier in the game all text lines were alright.

Cursed quest text:
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Bad text inside dialogue window:
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Even though everything is fine inside Pip-Boy:
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My hardware:
Intel 7-th gen CPU
Nvidia Quadro GPU
16GB or RAM
My system:
Arch Linux (6.8.1-arch1-1)
Wine-9.3
Proprietary nvidia drivers, vulkan and vulkan-tools installed

Installation process:
I followed this guide https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... &iId=14322. Created fresh wine prefix. Installed allfonts through winetricks alongside with dxvk. Installed all mentioned fonts in the guide on my linux system. Soft linked my linux fonts to windows fonts folder. Fallout's localization is all English.

What I tried doing to resolve this issue:
  • Changed windows version in winecfg to 7, 10, XP
  • Tweaked Fonts section in FALLOUT.INI file
  • Launched other (basic) windows apps to check if text there was fine (it was)
  • Tried changing LANG environmental variable when launching the game and using

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    FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=35"
    as described here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine#Fonts
  • Selected all data files in, well, "Data files" tab in Fallout launcher
My current fonts section in .ini file:

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sFontFile_1=Textures\Fonts\Glow_Monofonto_Large.fnt
sFontFile_2=Textures\Fonts\Monofonto_Large.fnt
sFontFile_3=Textures\Fonts\Glow_Monofonto_Medium.fnt
sFontFile_4=Textures\Fonts\Monofonto_VeryLarge02_Dialogs2.fnt
sFontFile_5=Textures\Fonts\Fixedsys_Comp_uniform_width.fnt
sFontFile_6=Textures\Fonts\Glow_Monofonto_VL_dialogs.fnt
sFontFile_7=Textures\Fonts\Baked-in_Monofonto_Large.fnt
sFontFile_8=Textures\Fonts\Glow_Futura_Caps_Large.fnt
I searched internet for a couple of days and found no solution for this issue. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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