Greetings! I was just banned from the #winehq channel on freenode for
suggesting to a newbie that he use winetricks to install directx 9c. I was told
that winetricks is for developers and that installing directx this way can
damage your wine install.
I am currently using the latest developers version of wine with directx 9c
installed and configured with the latest winetricks. I am playing the latest
Civilization 4 expansion pack with no problems whatsoever on Ubuntu 8.10.
I resent getting banned for accurate information and think that channel bans
should be reserved for obscene or abusive behavior only.
Thank you for tolerating this rant.
YeOldeFarte
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:07 PM, YeOldeFarte <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Greetings! I was just banned from the #winehq channel on freenode for suggesting to a newbie that he use winetricks to install directx 9c. I was told that winetricks is for developers and that installing directx this way can damage your wine install. > I am currently using the latest developers version of wine with directx 9c installed and configured with the latest winetricks. I am playing the latest Civilization 4 expansion pack with no problems whatsoever on Ubuntu 8.10. > I resent getting banned for accurate information and think that channel bans should be reserved for obscene or abusive behavior only. > Thank you for tolerating this rant. > YeOldeFarte > > > > > >Who banned you? -- -Austin
austin987 wrote:> Who banned you?Most likely there were reasons for. Do not discuss this here.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:44 PM, vitamin <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> > austin987 wrote: >> Who banned you? > > Most likely there were reasons for. > > Do not discuss this here. > > > > > >Then where should he discuss it? -- -Austin
vitamin wrote:> > austin987 wrote: > > Who banned you? > > Most likely there were reasons for. > > Do not discuss this here.Then where should he discuss it?
austin987 wrote:> Then where should he discuss it?In private with other ops of #winehq channel.
YeOldeFarte wrote:> Greetings! I was just banned from the #winehq channel on freenode for suggesting to a newbie that he use winetricks to install directx 9c. I was told that winetricks is for developers and that installing directx this way can damage your wine install.There is a bit of mis-information in this statement: One: Winetricks is for all users. Two: Wine implements, as best as possible, DirectX 9. There is a true statement here, however. Using winetricks to install DirectX 9c can and more likely than not, will break your Wine installation.> > I am currently using the latest developers version of wine with directx 9c installed and configured with the latest winetricks. I am playing the latest Civilization 4 expansion pack with no problems whatsoever on Ubuntu 8.10. >This is a good thing. However, one should not state that installing DirectX 9c will fix all game problems. This should be reserved for those cases where it does fix things, but with the warning that it may break others. James McKenzie