You're thinking of Transgaming's WineX which implements DirectX under Wine. At the moment WineX only supports DirectX 7, although support for 8 is coming eventually. You probably won't be able to run Aquanox under WineX, although some DirectX 8 games function okay anyway, but you can check it out at: www.transgaming.com "Sebastian Jaenicke" <sjaenick@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote in message slrna0ijns.hno.sjaenick@azathoth.jaenicke.org">news:slrna0ijns.hno.sjaenick@azathoth.jaenicke.org... > Hi, > > I'm trying to install the game "Aquanox" under Wine which needs DirectX 8.0. > I've found a mail in the wine mailing list archive stating that wine already > includes DirectX, but Aquanox keeps complaining about a missing d3d8.dll. > Trying to install DirectX 8.0, I end up with "DirectX couldn't be installed > on this computer". > Any hints on this one? > > Sebastian