WINE and DirectX

NetRAVEN5000 · 12-15-2005, 01:15 PM

I understand that newer versions of WINE have DirectX support built into the code. What "./configure" options do you need to use to enable this?

azucaro · 12-15-2005, 04:48 PM

Hmm, I haven't heard of this in the Wine tree, could you mean directxwine http://sourceforge.net/projects/directxwine/ ?

NetRAVEN5000 · 12-15-2005, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by azucaro

Hmm, I haven't heard of this in the Wine tree, could you mean directxwine http://sourceforge.net/projects/directxwine/ ?

No, I mean WINE. From their wiki it looks like they've implemented some sort of DirectX support:
http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectX-ToDo?...=%28directx%29.

Not sure if you need to compile with any special options or not to get this extra functionality - that's what I'm asking.

auditek747 · 12-16-2005, 06:46 AM

You don't need to do anything special.

Code:

./configure --help

will tell you available options.
DX in wine is sparse and bad though.
You may do better with winex from Cedega CVS.
Go to frankscorner.org for the link.

And to Azucaro... thanks for the link I've been wanting
to try that out.

azucaro · 12-16-2005, 10:31 AM

netraven,

Cool! I'll have to check that out. I can't check the Wine homepage from work (blocked due to the seemingly alcoholic domain name) so wasn't able to check yesterday.

Ant

NetRAVEN5000 · 12-16-2005, 10:49 AM

Well I got wine installed and now I'm trying to set up my Steam account - but the Steam setup thing (after you install the program, to set up your account) has no text in it!

The console has given me the following text:

Code:

fixme:vxd:VXD_Open Unknown/unsupported VxD L"gdperf.vxd". Try setting Windows version to 'nt40' or 'win31'.
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59} not registered
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59}, hres is 0x80040154

How can I get this text to display?

auditek747 · 12-16-2005, 01:39 PM

I run "Obiter Space Sim" with winex and I get the no text problem
with the various game control panels.
I get it back by rolling the window up/down or minimizing/restoring
the window.

NetRAVEN5000 · 12-16-2005, 01:51 PM

Minimizing/restoring doesn't help. And there's no scrollbar.

NetRAVEN5000 · 12-16-2005, 02:40 PM

I updated to the newest version of Wine and now I'm getting this:

Code:

err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59} could be created for for context 0x1
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59}, hres is 0x80040154
fixme:nls:MultiByteToWideChar MB_USEGLYPHCHARS not supported
fixme:nls:MultiByteToWideChar MB_USEGLYPHCHARS not supported
fixme:nls:MultiByteToWideChar MB_USEGLYPHCHARS not supported

devbro · 12-17-2005, 04:26 PM

what is winex? is it the same as wine?

stress_junkie · 12-17-2005, 04:39 PM

I just looked at codeweavers.com Crossover Office web page. Crossover Office is to Wine as Sun Microsystems' Star Office is to openoffice.org. Codeweavers financially supports the wine project and co-develops their commercial product in step with wine.

Anyway I just looked at the Codeweavers application support page. It says that DirectX is not known to work.

codeweavers.com/site/compatibility/browse/name?letter=d

mammlouk · 12-17-2005, 05:54 PM

What you are looking for is dx9wine. The D3D9 patches have been merged into the trunk, but are not compiled into the releases yet. The best way to get it working is to get the WineCVS script from here:

http://winecvs.linux-gamers.net/index.php/Main_Page

Run the script and choose the dx9wine profile and you will be good to go.

devbro · 12-17-2005, 07:17 PM

thats exactly what i did but i have a problem with the cpu architechture as i am using x86_64.
so i need a wine and d3d that works with my cpu. i wanted to downgrade to 32bit but it will be
a lot of work saving all my configurations and files.

auditek747 · 12-17-2005, 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by devbro

what is winex? is it the same as wine?

Winex is a version of wine that has been modified by Transgaming
(cedega). In fact I think cedega used to be called winex.
It is available from Transgaming cvs for free, minus some of
the features of regular cedega. (point2play and who knows what else)
It's like the older versions of wine in the sense that it still
uses the wine "config" file. I don't know how close it is to
wine cvs.
The only win32 program I'm running is "Orbiter Space Simulator"
which will not run with the latest wine release (haven't tried wine cvs) nor will it run with the latest cedega. It runs well
with winex-cvs though. I even have a usb joystick.
It will not run things like print shops and the like, which will
run with wine.
I don't know if it will do x86-64.

NetRAVEN5000 · 12-17-2005, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mammlouk

What you are looking for is dx9wine. The D3D9 patches have been merged into the trunk, but are not compiled into the releases yet. The best way to get it working is to get the WineCVS script from here:

http://winecvs.linux-gamers.net/index.php/Main_Page

Run the script and choose the dx9wine profile and you will be good to go.

I tried that script before but for some reason wine ran the Steam installer just fine but dx9wine didn't - I forgot what error it said but I think it said something about the network. Maybe I'll try downloading the patch and applying it manually.

By the way. . . I noticed that Cedega now has a 14-day free trial. If anyone else wants to try the 14-day trial as I did. . . don't. It works great but it puts a huge logo in the dead center of the screen so you can't see what you're doing.

I might consider buying Cedega if I didn't have to subscribe since the only games I play for Windows are all the Half-Life mods which are free to play. Not paying a monthly fee is one of the things I like about PC gaming and is really the big reason why I don't play games like WoW or Everquest - I'd prefer to not have to pay to play unless I'm paying for special priveleges like a guaranteed spot on the server or paying to have the server admin post my stats online (that's the way a lot of DOD servers are - playing online is free and is a lot of fun, and if there's a certain server you always play on you can pay them to set the server to reserve a spot for you). I don't mind paying to get special treatment like that, but I don't want to pay a monthly fee just to play.