wine users - Nov 2008 - dll files

I'm a recent convert to the Linux lifestyle, and I would like to get to a
point where I rarely, if ever, have to boot into Windows on my machine.  While
I'm not a huge gamer, I do enjoy Final Fantasy XI.  I would like to get it
to run under Linux/Wine.  According to the information from the AppDB, the only
way to get FFXI working under Wine is to have a copy of the dxdiagn.dll from
Windows XP.

That's fine, however, I don't have XP.  My computer is ralatively new
and came with Vista preinstalled.  However, before I ask one of my Windows XP
useing friends to send me a copy of their dxdiagn.dll file, I was wondering if I
could just use the dxdiagn.dll file that is part of my Vista install?

Is the file the same in both versions of Windows, or do I really need to get the
XP version if this is gonna work?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:31 PM, almigi <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I'm a recent convert to the Linux lifestyle, and I would like to get to
a point where I rarely, if ever, have to boot into Windows on my machine.  While
I'm not a huge gamer, I do enjoy Final Fantasy XI.  I would like to get it
to run under Linux/Wine.  According to the information from the AppDB, the only
way to get FFXI working under Wine is to have a copy of the dxdiagn.dll from
Windows XP.
>
> That's fine, however, I don't have XP.  My computer is ralatively
new and came with Vista preinstalled.  However, before I ask one of my Windows
XP useing friends to send me a copy of their dxdiagn.dll file, I was wondering
if I could just use the dxdiagn.dll file that is part of my Vista install?
>
> Is the file the same in both versions of Windows, or do I really need to
get the XP version if this is gonna work?
>
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The versions are probably different, but it should still work.

-- 
-Austin