More progress! (kind of) I have installed DirectX 9c with wine normally yet the game still complains that I haven't installed: > Please make sure you have DirectX 9.0 or higher installed. Also verify that your video card meets the minimum requirements, and that you do not have hardware acceleration disabled in the Display control panel. And this is the much larger output with wine 1.1.25: Code: [marco@localhost Command & Conquer 3]$ wine CNC3.exe fixme:debugstr:CheckRemoteDebuggerPresent (0xffffffff)->(0x335fc48): Stub! fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xd8): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x18c): stub fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x190): stub fixme:d3d9:D3DPERF_GetStatus (void) : stub fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x335e814,0x00000000), stub! fixme:font:WineEngAddFontResourceEx Ignoring flags 30 fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0x1a8): stub fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateSwapChain The app requests more than one back buffer, this can't be supported properly. Please configure the application to use double buffering(=1 back buffer) if possible err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 1024x768x0 @0! (XRandR) err:d3d:getColorBits Unsupported format: WINED3DFMT_UNKNOWN err:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Unable to get color bits for format WINED3DFMT_UNKNOWN (0)! err:d3d:getColorBits Unsupported format: WINED3DFMT_UNKNOWN err:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Unable to get color bits for format WINED3DFMT_UNKNOWN (0)! err:d3d:CreateContext Can't find a suitable iPixelFormat err:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateSwapChain Failed to create a new context fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateSwapChain (0x151d68) Something's still holding the front buffer fixme:d3d9:IDirect3DDevice9Impl_CreateAdditionalSwapChain (0x151d38) call to IWineD3DDevice_CreateSwapChain failed err:d3d9:device_parent_CreateSwapChain (0x151d3c) CreateAdditionalSwapChain failed, returning 0x8876086a fixme:d3d9:IDirect3D9Impl_CreateDevice (0x13bd28) D3D Initialization failed for WineD3DDevice 0x151d68 fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateSwapChain The app requests more than one back buffer, this can't be supported properly. Please configure the application to use double buffering(=1 back buffer) if possible err:x11settings:X11DRV_ChangeDisplaySettingsEx No matching mode found 800x600x0 @0! (XRandR) err:d3d:getColorBits Unsupported format: WINED3DFMT_UNKNOWN err:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Unable to get color bits for format WINED3DFMT_UNKNOWN (0)! err:d3d:getColorBits Unsupported format: WINED3DFMT_UNKNOWN err:d3d:WineD3D_ChoosePixelFormat Unable to get color bits for format WINED3DFMT_UNKNOWN (0)! err:d3d:CreateContext Can't find a suitable iPixelFormat err:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateSwapChain Failed to create a new context fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateSwapChain (0x16b6a8) Something's still holding the front buffer fixme:d3d9:IDirect3DDevice9Impl_CreateAdditionalSwapChain (0x155468) call to IWineD3DDevice_CreateSwapChain failed err:d3d9:device_parent_CreateSwapChain (0x15546c) CreateAdditionalSwapChain failed, returning 0x8876086a fixme:d3d9:IDirect3D9Impl_CreateDevice (0x13bd28) D3D Initialization failed for WineD3DDevice 0x16b6a8 Sorry for the bumps but this forum doesn't allow post edition. But that doesn't mean that I'm the only one who can talk here :o Any help?
