On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:41 PM, jneem <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've been successfully playing Civ IV in wine for some time, but recently I've been trying unsuccessfully to upgrade to the Warlords expansion. I tried > various suggestions that I found through google, including those on wine's appdb. Basically, I've tried every combination of: > > > setting Direct3d 9 to be native This should not be needed anymore and may actually break things. > > installing msxml3 via winetricks and making it native > > disabling vertex and/or pixel shaders > > deleting various dlls in the game folders (at least, those that also exist in system32) Can you try starting over and following only the applications database suggestions? James