wine users - Aug 2010 - I'm new to linux and I need help

I trying to play my games Oblivion and Spore. I almost got oblivion to work but
when I click create new game it freezes and forces me to quit it, not to mention
it's really slow and skips. It's not my computer because it exceeds the
requirements by far. And then spore won't even start.

Mindrifter wrote:
> I trying to play my games Oblivion and Spore. I almost got oblivion to work
but when I click create new game it freezes and forces me to quit it, not to
mention it's really slow and skips. It's not my computer because it
exceeds the requirements by far. And then spore won't even start.
That's not enough information to help you. What distro, wine version,
graphics card/driver? Post terminal output.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal

Mindrifter wrote:
> The example confuse me

The example:

Code:

cd '.wine/drive_c/Games/Tron'



"cd" is the command to change directory. '.wine/drive_c/Tron'
is the directory to change to; substitute the actual path to your program for
that part.

Code:
wine tron.exe


"wine" is the command used to run apps in Wine.  "tron.exe"
is the name of the executable; substitute the actual name of the exe you want to
run for that part.

John Drescher wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Mindrifter <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > A thing kept popping up about a dxdllreg.exe error. I already know
this is directx because I've tried to fix it (and I thought I had) before.
so I did the wine tricks thing ad the vcrun6 thing, but how do I install
directx?
> > 
> > 
> 
> You usually do not install directX because wine provides support that
> can not be replaced by microsoft dlls. However some parts of directx
> are installable using winetricks.
> 
> John
Actually, this specific error is kind of a special case. You started out having
installed Oblivion, right? Well, Oblivion installs DirectX, or at least that
dxdllreg.exe thing. You'll find it in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32, I
believe.

In any case, this supplemental exe doesn't run under Wine, and in fact you
will get that error in any application you try to run, because dxdllreg.exe is a
"system file" (being part of directx) and so acts globally, even
though it was installed by one particular application.

You may rename it, or throw it out without consequence, and in my case that
(throwing it out) has always resolved the issue of the error message (it goes
away).

You do not need to install directx in its entirety via winetricks, and in fact
you should not do so.

Hope this helps,
Holly