http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2513
------- Additional Comments From oliver_stieber@yahoo.co.uk 2005-29-01 13:52 ------- Try putting d3d8.dll or d3d9.dll in you wine windows system32 directory, you can also change the directX version in the registery.
The only other way I've seen that application detect directX is by seeing if CreateD3DDevice8/9 failes which it shouldn't unless there's something wrong with you wine build.