hey guys just recently started playing again and im having a horrendous graphical mishap where all lighting just goes completely black, plus the friendly and enemy NPC models are completely black except their lighting effects. any help is appreciated

if it helps im on the most recent update for windows 10

Use https://fdossena.com/?p=wined3d/index.frag It should have a forum stating which wine to use, if I remember it's DirectX 9.

using virustotal its telling me there that the download has malware in it

checked the latest pre-vulkan version, still see 1 malicious file but i still dont know fully

ok fixed the issues, thank you very much

Sorry haven't been to active, Wined3d is safe and a false positive, there's also an alternative on the wiki for Area51. https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Area_51_(2005) You can find all the info here.