wine users - May 2009 - Game install, Microsoft DirectX (tm) limitation.

I have recently been trying to install a game made for Windows 95 titled Thief:
The Dark Project. Unfortunately it seems to be having a problem with some sort
of DirectX limitation. I am extremely inexperienced in dealing with wine so
please if there is any more information I can give you, feel free to ask.

Upon activation on the install executable (wine setup.exe) the install process
appears to begin only to disappoint me when the following error message
arrives...

Code:
This product can not be installed on Windows NT due to a Microsoft DirectX (tm)
limitation.


I've searched through the tested applications database and found the tests
for this game and it seems as thought others have managed to get the game
working. You can find the page here > Theif: The Dark Project
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=442).  I
have also searched the forums for something relative to this but I do believe my
knowledge of wine is extremely limited, and thus hindering my ability to find a
solution.

Any ideas are welcome.

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:48 AM, BinaryBurnout <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> I have recently been trying to install a game made for Windows 95 titled
Thief: The Dark Project. Unfortunately it seems to be having a problem with some
sort of DirectX limitation. I am extremely inexperienced in dealing with wine so
please if there is any more information I can give you, feel free to ask.
>
> Upon activation on the install executable (wine setup.exe) the install
process appears to begin only to disappoint me when the following error message
arrives...
>
> Code:
> This product can not be installed on Windows NT due to a Microsoft DirectX
(tm) limitation.
Run 'winecfg' and set the windows version to windows 95.

-- 
-Austin

austin987 wrote:
> Run 'winecfg' and set the windows version to windows 95.
Huh... Thank you. I feel I must apologize for posting such a simplistic
question. Never-the-less, your help was much appreciated.

austin987 wrote:
> What's the problem? You can ignore the output if stuff works...
Well that is precisely the problem. The game does not run, and instead all I get
is that output. Nothing happens :(

austin987 wrote:
> 'Doesn't run' is pretty ambiguous...does it show a black
screen, exit
> silently, not start at all, etc.? Is there any other output?
Hmm touche... "Doesn't run" is a bad description. Anyways, I use
the command wine thief.exe then I receive the output and I'm afraid that is
all. No screen flashes, no evidence of it trying to run besides the output in
the terminal.

BinaryBurnout wrote:
> err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found
1280x1024x32 @0! (XRandR)
Make sure you have that display mode configured with xorg. To verify what you
have run 'xrandr' command.