[Bug 25138] New: Black and White 2 demo crashes on startup

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25138

Summary: Black and White 2 demo crashes on startup
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.6
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: directx-d3d
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Download from http://lionhead.com/Games/BW2/Demo.aspx and install.
Decline installing directx9.
For me, the game crashed on startup; the log said

trace:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateVertexShader Created vertex shader 0x1ad220.
...
fixme:d3dx:D3DXCreateEffectEx (0x132510, 0x5e7ccd5, 1804, (nil), (nil), (nil),
0, (nil), 0x269f214, 0x269f258): semi-stub
fixme:d3dx:ID3DXEffectImpl_DeleteParameterBlock (0x207678)->(0x132510): stub
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address (nil)
(thread 0009), starting debugger...

'winetricks d3dx9_36' got rid of the effect stub warnings, but didn't affect
the crash.  
'winetricks dinput8' didn't seem to affect the crash.

'winetricks directx9' worked around the problem, and let the game run.