Hi, I'm trying to install the game "Aquanox" under Wine which needs DirectX 8.0. I've found a mail in the wine mailing list archive stating that wine already includes DirectX, but Aquanox keeps complaining about a missing d3d8.dll. Trying to install DirectX 8.0, I end up with "DirectX couldn't be installed on this computer". Any hints on this one? Sebastian -- Sebastian Jaenicke whois pgpkey-18AC0BE4@whois.ripe.net|perl -ne's-^certif: +--&&print'
winex supports DirectX 7, wine does not. See www.transgaming.com for winex, experiment, maybe you'll get lucky. Darren On Saturday 01 December 2001 9:43 pm, you wrote:> Hi, > > I'm trying to install the game "Aquanox" under Wine which needs > DirectX 8.0. I've found a mail in the wine mailing list archive > stating that wine already includes DirectX, but Aquanox keeps > complaining about a missing d3d8.dll. Trying to install DirectX > 8.0, I end up with "DirectX couldn't be installed on this > computer". > Any hints on this one? > > Sebastian
You're thinking of Transgaming's WineX which implements DirectX under Wine. At the moment WineX only supports DirectX 7, although support for 8 is coming eventually. You probably won't be able to run Aquanox under WineX, although some DirectX 8 games function okay anyway, but you can check it out at: www.transgaming.com "Sebastian Jaenicke" <sjaenick@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote in message news:slrna0ijns.hno.sjaenick@azathoth.jaenicke.org...> Hi, > > I'm trying to install the game "Aquanox" under Wine which needs DirectX8.0.> I've found a mail in the wine mailing list archive stating that winealready> includes DirectX, but Aquanox keeps complaining about a missing d3d8.dll. > Trying to install DirectX 8.0, I end up with "DirectX couldn't beinstalled> on this computer". > Any hints on this one? > > Sebastian
Sebastian Jaenicke <sjaenick@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:> Hi,> I'm trying to install the game "Aquanox" under Wine which needs DirectX 8.0. > I've found a mail in the wine mailing list archive stating that wine already > includes DirectX, but Aquanox keeps complaining about a missing d3d8.dll. > Trying to install DirectX 8.0, I end up with "DirectX couldn't be installed > on this computer". > Any hints on this one?First mistake: not using winex (which includes some Direct3D functionality) Second mistake: winex doesn't support 8 yet, only 7 and to some extent older versions. Hope that helps :) -- Andreas Mohr, Renningen, Germany In case you need to contact me after expiry of temporary email address: my eternal (hopefully) email address is frqr2001 at the domain sneakemail.com