wine users - Jan 2010 - Wine - query

This is not a fault or complaint, just a query for some information.

1. To play windows games in Wine, do I need to load directx, or is it handled by
wine as a default?

2. I'm having problems in some games using the NVIDIA drivers (GF2 7186).
For example 'Legion Arena' http://www.slitherine.com/games/legion_arena 
seems to get further with the open source 'nv' drivers as opposed to the
propriety 'nvidia' drivers. But I cannot yet actually successfully play
the game with either.

Should this be the case? Is it recommended to try wine with the 'nv'
drivers or the 'nvidia' drivers? Is one preferred over the other or
should either work equally well?


Thanks for any info.

1. Wine has its own implementation of DirectX. The games you want to play might
install DirectX by default. If it turns out that the DirectX implementation of
Wine is not enough, you can install the DirectX binary with Winetricks :
http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

2. The open source "nv" driver has no 3D support at this point,
therefore I recommend that you use the proprietary driver.

Can you tell us which Linux distribution and which version of the proprietary
Nvidia driver do you use?