jjmckenzie wrote: > > The installation of DirectX9 should be disabled. We don't need it > anymore (Dan take that as a hint to remove this from winetricks). > > The remainder of the stuff should be checked and verified. Steam may > need additional DX9 dlls, like dx9_42.dll for some games, but not all. > > vcrun2005 should not be needed, I don't know of many game programmers > that program in Visual C++. > > The two geckos should not be needed. Gecko should be downloaded when > Wine is first run (unless that changed.) > > I don't know why xact was downloaded, but some games may need it. > > It might be a good idea for the sub-games to have their own links on the > Steam page (I don't use Steam so if this exists pardon my spouting off > here) with their own "best practices" how-tos and hints. > > One of the best things I've read with Wine is that EACH program should > have it's own prefix. They are not big and if you have problems > introduced with the release of a new Wine version, you can destroy only > that one prefix and reload. This is much better than what happens with > Windows... > > James McKenzie James, I see now why this testing guy is so confused. winetricks was pulling in all that stuff - when you use it to install the Steam client. I didn't even realise because it silently overwrites the files in the /windows/system32 directory (no overrides are specified in the wine registry files). I could only tell by the file modification date/time and the checked items in the winetricks GUI. I presume the files are overridden, by the winetricks installed native Windows versions, when you run the Steam client??!! Sounds like I need to submit a winetricks bug report... [Laughing] A lot of my Steam games are (/were) triple AAA titles. They get their own AppDB pages alongside the regular retail versions (since the Steam versions often have less Wine obstructive DRM). That's the only way to organise things! I would generally recommend Steam be installed in it's own Wineprefix along with all the Steam games. Since the Steam client shows all the games in a big list - it would a pain not to have them all together. The games would be overridden individually. This of course only works if you don't have to use a patched/ different version of Wine to run a particular game! Bob
