wine users - Nov 2010 - Installing Dreamfall: The Longest Journey - help needed!

Hi guys,

I'm trying to make this game work following HowTo that I found here: 

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?bShowAll=true&bIsQueue=false&bIsRejected=false&sClass=version&sTitle=&sReturnTo=&iId=5305

But after installing it and trying to run the game an error pops out saying
"Failed to initialize Direct3D. Aborting." I don't know how to fix
this?

I'm using Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 and Wine 1.3.6.

So far I've:
1. Installed the game (from cd)
2. Copied d3dx9_27.dll file to Wine's system32 folder (and to Dreamfall
folder)
3. Used regedit (as it was suggested in the aforementioned HowTo) to create a
new key "Direct3D" here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER + 
                         Software + 
                                   Wine + 

After that I didn't know what else to do, but something needs to be done
since trying to run the game at this point doesn't work and just gives the
"Failed to initialize Direct3D" error. Am I doing this all wrong??

Also, in the most recent reply to this HowTo I've read that these settings
should be set using regedit:

"DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl" 
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo" 
"UseGLSL"="enabled" 
"VideoMemorySize"="512" 

But I don't know how to do that? Or does it need to be done at all??
 
I'm new to linux, and having a really hard time figuring these things out by
myself. So please help me, I really want this game to work!!

Ivanchica wrote:
> Also, in the most recent reply to this HowTo I've read that these
settings should be set using regedit:
Nope, no need - those are the defaults (aside from the memory size which is
auto-detected). Run your game from the terminal and post complete output.

ivana at ivana-desktop:~/VirtualDrives/2$ dreamfall.exe 
fixme:dsalsa:IDsDriverBufferImpl_SetVolumePan (0x15f780,0x1682b8): stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1a4d4a0,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1a4d6d4,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1a4d940,0x00000000), stub!
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found
1024x768x32 @0! (XRandR)
err:d3d9:device_parent_CreateSwapChain (0x187b24) CreateAdditionalSwapChain
failed, returning 0x8876086a
err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found
1024x768x32 @0! (XRandR)
err:d3d9:device_parent_CreateSwapChain (0x186944) CreateAdditionalSwapChain
failed, returning 0x8876086a
err:mmtime:TIME_MMTimeStop Timer still active?!



Thanks for taking the time to look at this. Still getting "Failed to
initialize Direct3D" message.

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