Hi folks, I am not up-to-date with the latest DirectX news, can someone please tell me if we have any support for DirectX 7? I have a screensaver (Marine Aquarium) that I would like to run, but it requires DirectX 7. Is there any trick to get it to run? Thanks! -- Dimi Paun <dimi(a)lattica.com> Lattica, Inc.
Am Sonntag, 9. April 2006 03:45 schrieb Dimi Paun:
I am not up-to-date with the latest DirectX news, can someone please tell me if we have any support for DirectX 7? DirectX 7 is supported since quite a long time. I'm currently re-writing ddraw and d3d7 support.
I have a screensaver (Marine Aquarium) that I would like to run, but it requires DirectX 7.
Is there any trick to get it to run? Most likly it uses some strange way to determine if directx is supported, like checking for the existance of a .dll file. A +file trace might reveal something. Perhaps it checks for a fixed directx version string, and fails because we have the dx9 string, but it expects dx7. Unlikely, but I've once seen an app that failed for this reason in Windows
Stefan
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 10:03 +0200, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
Most likly it uses some strange way to determine if directx is supported, like checking for the existance of a .dll file.
This is exactly it! This solved the problem: [dimi(a)dimi ~]$ touch .wine/drive_c/windows/system32/Ddraw.dll
A +file trace might reveal something.
That worked, thank you. This is what I got: trace:file:FindFirstFileExW L"c:\\windows\\system32\\Ddraw.dll" 0 0x7fc8f4a0 0 (nil) 0 trace:file:RtlDosPathNameToNtPathName_U (L"c:\\windows\\system32\\Ddraw.dll",0x7fc8f464,0x7fc8f46c,(nil)) trace:file:RtlGetFullPathName_U (L"c:\\windows\\system32\\Ddraw.dll" 520 0x7fc8f1e8 0x7fc8f46c) trace:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"\\??\\C:\\windows\\system32\\" -> "/home/dimi/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32/" trace:file:FindNextFileW 0x7f193e10 0x7fc8f4a0 trace:file:NtQueryDirectoryFile (0x54 (nil) (nil) (nil) 0x7fc8f3e8 0x7f193e50 0x00002000 0x00000003 0x00000000 L"Ddraw.dll" 0x00000000 trace:file:append_entry long L".." short L"" mask L"Ddraw.dll" trace:file:match_filename (L"..", L"Ddraw.dll") trace:file:append_entry long L"msvcirt.dll" short L"" mask L"Ddraw.dll" trace:file:match_filename (L"msvcirt.dll", L"Ddraw.dll") ... Hasn't Alexandre added something recently that creates some fake DLLs with proper version info in them? -- Dimi Paun <dimi(a)lattica.com> Lattica, Inc.
On 4/9/06, Dimi Paun <dimi(a)lattica.com> wrote:
Hasn't Alexandre added something recently that creates some fake DLLs with proper version info in them?
To make sure a fake dll is created in the system directory, add the dll name to tools/wine.inf under the FakeDllsSection section. I guess we should add ddraw.dll to that list. -- James Hawkins
* On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, James Hawkins wrote:
* On 4/9/06, Dimi Paun wrote:
Hasn't Alexandre added something recently that creates some fake DLLs with proper version info in them?
To make sure a fake dll is created in the system directory, add the dll name to tools/wine.inf under the FakeDllsSection section. I guess we should add ddraw.dll to that list.
It already is there (if Dimi uses up-to-date Wine): $ F=~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ddraw.dll; ll $F; file $F -rw-rw-r-- 1 s2 s2 2468 Apr 9 13:31 /home/s2/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ddraw.dll /home/s2/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ddraw.dll: PE executable for MS Windows (DLL) (unknown subsystem) Intel 80386 This sounds to me like a case related to a case-insensitivity handling.
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