winetricks directx testers needed
Howdy all, I e-mailed wine-users a few days ago, but had no volunteers. I know most of you here aren't the target audience for using winetricks directx9, but since neither Dan or I game much, we need a guinea pig ;-). Long story short, someone complained that 'winetricks directx9' crashes on OS X, but works if the windows version is set to xp instead of 2k. I've played around with it a bit, and it seems that using xp gives a different set of installed files. Which one works better for games, however, I don't know. So, test it please. If you get wine from SVN, there's a beta of it: http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/winetricks just use 'winetricks directx9-beta' for the XP version, and 'winetricks directx9' for windows 2k (on OS X, it forces directx9-beta). Please let me know which version works better for games that need it. Any problems, file a bug at winezeug (http://code.google.com/p/winezeug/issues/list). For faster service, shoot me an e-mail, since I don't get e-mail notifications of any new bugs there... -- -Austin
Howdy,
From memory I know dxdiag.exe wont work on Linux if its set to XP the only way to get it to work properly is set the windows version to 2k. As for MAC I'm not sure, you will need another sucker.. I mean guinea pig to test there :)
Maybe have two versions, one for Linux and one for Mac? Cheers, Tom On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Austin English <austinenglish(a)gmail.com>wrote:
Howdy all,
I e-mailed wine-users a few days ago, but had no volunteers. I know most of you here aren't the target audience for using winetricks directx9, but since neither Dan or I game much, we need a guinea pig ;-).
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Tom Wickline <twickline(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Howdy,
From memory I know dxdiag.exe wont work on Linux if its set to XP the only way to get it to work properly is set the windows version to 2k. As for MAC I'm not sure, you will need another sucker.. I mean guinea pig to test there :)
Maybe have two versions, one for Linux and one for Mac?
Well, currently linux/solaris/bsd has the option. Mac is detected and forced to use XP. Ideally, there shouldn't be a need to use different versions, the install should work on all OS's (actually, in a perfect world, it wouldn't be needed at all ;-)). There's now a stub dxdiag.exe in wine, so it's not hugely important to use the native one, to get games to work. I'm not worried about getting a perfect install of directx9, I just want to know which one is 'better' or more helpful to applications that want it for some reason. -- -Austin
Am 15.12.2009 um 07:56 schrieb Austin English:
Long story short, someone complained that 'winetricks directx9' crashes on OS X, but works if the windows version is set to xp instead of 2k. Did you try setting mscoree to disabled?
I've played around with it a bit, and it seems that using xp gives a different set of installed files. Which one works better for games, however, I don't know. You want both.
The 2k one installs old stuff like directplay or directmusic, which wine only implements partially or not at all. The xp one installs new helper libs like Xaudio2, X3Daudio, but does not install dplay & friends because winxp has them anyway.
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger(a)gmx.at> wrote:
Am 15.12.2009 um 07:56 schrieb Austin English:
Long story short, someone complained that 'winetricks directx9' crashes on OS X, but works if the windows version is set to xp instead of 2k. Did you try setting mscoree to disabled?
Yes, mscoree is disabled.
I've played around with it a bit, and it seems that using xp gives a different set of installed files. Which one works better for games, however, I don't know. You want both.
The 2k one installs old stuff like directplay or directmusic, which wine only implements partially or not at all.
The xp one installs new helper libs like Xaudio2, X3Daudio, but does not install dplay & friends because winxp has them anyway.
Hm. For that matter, it could do an install with XP, then use cabextract to get directplay/directmusic (winetricks already has an option for directplay) and regsvr32 them manually. -- -Austin
Am 15.12.2009 um 10:08 schrieb Austin English:
Hm. For that matter, it could do an install with XP, then use cabextract to get directplay/directmusic (winetricks already has an option for directplay) and regsvr32 them manually. In CrossOver we offer two dx packages - DirectX(Legacy) installs in win2k mode, DirectX(Modern) installs in winxp mode.
+1 On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger(a)gmx.at>wrote:
Am 15.12.2009 um 10:08 schrieb Austin English:
Hm. For that matter, it could do an install with XP, then use cabextract to get directplay/directmusic (winetricks already has an option for directplay) and regsvr32 them manually. In CrossOver we offer two dx packages - DirectX(Legacy) installs in win2k mode, DirectX(Modern) installs in winxp mode.
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