i have tried installing dx7, dx8, and, dx9
You have a wrong idea of wine directx support. You can't install the Microsoft version of directx on wine. Wine has it's own directx, that currently are incomplete, but already run many games. There is partial support up to directx 8, you can try a demo, for example mafia, that uses directx8, it runs very well on wine. There isn't any real directx 9 support for now. If you install the Microsoft directx the files will just sit on your hard drive, but won't be used by wine. If you set wine to use the native version of those files, the games that do work with the wine directx will just stop working. BTW you can install any directx sdk by unzipping the exe file, for example for directx 8a just run unzip DX8a_SDK.exe and you'll get a directory containing the SDK.
Ivan.
Thanks Ivan. This is consistant with what I learned by reading on the web. I have an app (Acid Pro) that said it needed DX8 so I tried installing it under 20040213. It installed fine but just dies after it starts.
I'm not a developer so I wouldn't know much about figuring out why. I guess I'll just have to wait until I hear about the next big jump forward in Direct X support.
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