http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5132
------- Additional Comments From xerox_xerox2000@yahoo.co.uk 2006-25-04 07:15 ------- In know one (directx 8.1) game that checks for presence of ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/d3d8.dll. So maybe it's just checking for d3d9.dll. So this could be worth a quick shot: do "touch ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/d3d9.dll" and try again. You might be lucky (but i fear not :) )
BTW what is the exact error massage it pops up?