[Bug 26209] Requiem: Avenging Angel Demo requires DirectX 6 to play

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26209

--- Comment #6 from Andrew Millington  2011-02-23 03:56:08 CST ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Does it work on native XP? May be a game bug (though XP may have it in its
> > compatibility list)...
>
> The demo does not work out of box on Windows 7, and none of the Windows
> compatibility versions allows the game to start, so I think the bug can be
> considered invalid.

Don't forget Wine is not Windows. It's not a buggy application just not very
future proof, just like a game/app that needs Windows 98 and setting that in
Winecfg is okay. But having DirectX 9 on the old and unsupported by Microsoft,
is that okay?