winecfg: add options to switch between "installed" directx versions

[Christian Gmeiner]

Hi all.

I wanted to install "Need for Speed - Most wanted" under wine and the 
setup told me, that directx is not installed. So
i think we need a way to set installed/used directx version in winecfg.
Do you think its worth to start developing a patch in this direction?

Thanks

winecfg: add options to switch between "installed" directx versions

[Christoph Frick]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:38:46PM +0000, Christian Gmeiner wrote:
> I wanted to install "Need for Speed - Most wanted" under wine and the
> setup told me, that directx is not installed. So i think we need a way
> to set installed/used directx version in winecfg.  Do you think its
> worth to start developing a patch in this direction?

you should first found out (e.g. using WINEDEBUG=+reg) what the app
really wants. i had the case, that a game wanted a very current
directx-version and i just had to set a new number in wine.inf and
everything worked fine then. imho faking the most current version is the
best thing to do - i doubt that there are many apps out there that
really ask for a certain (lower) version number?

winecfg: add options to switch between "installed" directx versions

[Tom Wickline]

On 12/7/05, Christian Gmeiner
 wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I wanted to install "Need for Speed - Most wanted" under wine and the
> setup told me, that directx is not installed. So
> i think we need a way to set installed/used directx version in winecfg.
> Do you think its worth to start developing a patch in this direction?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Christian Gmeiner - student of computer science

A quick and easy work around is to edit AutoRun/autorun.cfg and remove
DirectXVersion=9.0c

Tom