Sebastian Jaenicke <sjaenick@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote: > 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? First mistake: not using winex (which includes some Direct3D functionality) Second mistake: winex doesn't support 8 yet, only 7 and to some extent older versions. Hope that helps :) -- Andreas Mohr, Renningen, Germany In case you need to contact me after expiry of temporary email address: my eternal (hopefully) email address is frqr2001 at the domain sneakemail.com
