Wine (inbuilt) directx pluggin issue

[tone]

Hi,
I'm new and I have been learning as much Linux (as I can when the kids are in bed of an evening) over the last few months. Originally I had Wine installed on MX Linux 18.3 then for reasons I won't go into, I had to upgrade to MX Linux 19. When I first installed WINE I was very impressed and it worked very well. However, for some reason I am having an issue with "failed to initialize directX error 80004005 E_FAIL" for example if I try and run Project 64, I think there is a plugin issue. (I believe WINE uses it's own directX like variant)

I use Playonlinux as the front-end for WINE; I am admittedly a bit of a plug-and-play-monkey coming from Windows, but I tried to change the Wine Configuration > Libraries: d3d9 or d3dx9_43 or whatever to (builtin). Or Wine Configuration > Install Components: directx9 etc. No joy.

Similarly, when I go Tools > manage wine versions and try other versions, no luck there either.
Last time I remember there was 32bit and 64bit OS which you could choose from, now there was more of a distinction and I think I had to install Wine64 in addition to the Wine offered (I think it was 'staging') in the MX package installer (I think this was only 32bit).

I frankly don't understand WINEARCH, the WINEPREFIX Feature, Winecfg and haven't really played with WINETRICKS. So there are many possible avenues which I have not explored because (happy to read any tutorials on these because I would like to be able to fine-tune WINE for maximum ability to run obscure .exe's).

Are any of you good people please able to shed some light on this issue?

Thanks in advance,

[tone]

Okay, the plot thickens. I watched this video on installing/using WINE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI09QLkqZiE

He uses WINEARC and WINEPREFIX through winetricks. So I setup a test wine bottle the same way and installed a number of windows DLLs and components including d3dx9 through the default wineprefix.

Copying this method (emulating him, if you will), keeping with the Project64 application I think I do get further...

So I load [the R0M] and I hear the music but the screen is black, so I go to check the graphics configuration and its not until I start clicking around that things appear (like dropdown menus). Similarly, if I go to options > settings > plugins, there is nothing to select, not even white empty boxes. Nothing at all. So obviously I can't change the plugin or select one.
Please see my attached screen captures illustrating what I have described.

Can anyone please let me know if they have any ideas as to how to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

[jkfloris]

There was a bug in Wine/ Project64.
The development builds seems to work fine.

If you want to learn more about WINEARCH and WINEPREFIX read the WineHQ Wiki

[tone]

There was a bug in Wine/ Project64.
The development builds seems to work fine.

If you want to learn more about WINEARCH and WINEPREFIX read the WineHQ Wiki

Hi and thanks for the reply, I didn't get a notification so I didn't see this.

Great, I was trying to install winehq-devel last night, but I have 'held broken dependencies' which I am trying to remove without much luck (tried a lot of suggestions on Ubuntu forums, even though I'm using MX linux).

Cheers,

Rob