http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26209
--- Comment #9 from Jeff Zaroyko jeffz@jeffz.name 2011-02-23 06:42:45 CST --- (In reply to comment #8)
Before marking invalid is there a possibility for matching the DirectX version to an operating system version? All this games needs for it to work is a version string within the range of 4.06 and 4.07.
How would that work? DirectX 9 was supported for Windows 98 and DirectX 8 for Windows 95. If you want a workaround, perhaps a feature request to winetricks to fudge the DirectX version would be an easy alternative.