Re: winetricks directx testers needed

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am 15.12.2009 um 07:56 schrieb Austin English:
> Long story short, someone complained that 'winetricks directx9'
> crashes on OS X, but works if the windows version is set to xp instead
> of 2k.

Did you try setting mscoree to disabled?
> I've played around with it a bit, and it seems that using xp
> gives a different set of installed files. Which one works better for
> games, however, I don't know.

You want both.

The 2k one installs old stuff like directplay or directmusic, which wine only implements partially or not at all.

The xp one installs new helper libs like Xaudio2, X3Daudio, but does not install dplay & friends because winxp has them anyway.