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Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine
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DirectX 8? #546

Closed MajorLunaC closed 8 years ago

MajorLunaC commented 9 years ago

I know it's a bit old, but I've found some older programs that require DirectX 8 specifically. I've heard that DirectX 9 is somewhat backwards compatible with DirectX 8, but that doesn't help it run.

I tried to install a version or two of DirectX 8 manually with no real success. Can some support for DirectX 8 be added? Or is there another solution around this?

austin987 commented 9 years ago

On Sep 21, 2015 12:01 PM, "MajorLunaC" notifications@github.com wrote:

I know it's a bit old, but I've found some older programs that require DirectX 8 specifically. I've heard that DirectX 9 is somewhat backwards compatible with DirectX 8, but that doesn't help it run.

I tried to install a version or two of DirectX 8 manually with no real success. Can some support for DirectX 8 be added? Or is there another solution around this?

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Native DirectX itself isn't usable, for dx9 we're using the redistributable portions. I'm not aware of anything similar for dx8. Native d3d8.dll isn't usable in Wine. I don't know of any portion of d3d8 that would be usable.

MajorLunaC commented 9 years ago

That's unfortunate. I'll just have to hope somebody will one day be interested enough to develop Wine's d3d8.dll, although with window$ versions being spat out so fast and new DirectX versions on the way, that wont happen anytime soon I'm guessing.

Although with the backwards compatibility, I wonder if some of dx9 can just be copied over to dx8. Easier said than done, I'm sure.

austin987 commented 9 years ago

On Sep 21, 2015 6:32 PM, "MajorLunaC" notifications@github.com wrote:

That's unfortunate. I'll just have to hope somebody will one day be interested enough to develop Wine's d3d8.dll, although with window$ versions being spat out so fast and new DirectX versions on the way, that wont happen anytime soon I'm guessing.

Although with the backwards compatibility, I wonder if some of dx9 can just be copied over to dx8. Easier said than done, I'm sure.

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Do you have an upstream bug I can refer to?

MajorLunaC commented 9 years ago

I'm not quite sure what you mean. A bug in Wine or a bug in the program I'm running?

When running the program, I get a "DirectX8 failed to initialize. Exiting." pop-up and it exits with no terminal errors.

All I get in the terminal when enabling d3d8.dll builtin is some fixmes that weren't there before: http://pastebin.com/RbSXDQ8w

As for Wine itself, all I can find is a rare few reference pages. Nothing about any recent bugs: http://wine-wiki.org/index.php/Wine_DirectX_status http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectX https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=572

austin987 commented 9 years ago

I was asking if you've filed an upstream Wine bug for whatever game you're trying to run. Native d3d8.dll isn't usable, and I don't know of anything else related to DX8 that winetricks could provide.

qwertychouskie commented 8 years ago

Since Wine does not support DX8, can this be closed?

austin987 commented 8 years ago

Wine definitely has support for directx8

MajorLunaC commented 8 years ago

Oops! I forgot I posted this. I found the solution after a few months of testing: DX8 is supported by Wine. If a program says it isn't, try a new clean wine prefix with no modifications whatsoever, no wine staging, no winetricks. If that doesn't work, try with wine staging and winetricks. One way or another, Direct X 8 DOES work in normal unmodified Wine, but staging or some winetricks could be getting in the way.