I play a number of Japanese-language visual novel games with wine. They all worked flawlessly until today, but today they all stopped loading at all today with the same error about being unable to load d3d9.dll. This is especially strange because I have been loading these at least once a day between reboots, and the last time any wine package updated was at least a week ago.
wine --version returns "wine-6.20". This happens with both the "wine" and "wine-staging" packages on an updated Arch Linux.
The file $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/system32/d3d9.dll does exist. Because the games are Japanese I normally run them with LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 and TZ="Asia/Tokyo" as well, but removing these seems to have no effect.
To be clear, I am NOT running these games from Steam, but via normal wine in my terminal.
At least one other (non-game) GUI program loads fine from the same WINEPREFIX.
00a4:fixme:ntdll:EtwRegisterTraceGuidsW register trace class {485e7de8-0a80-11d8-ad15-505054503030}
00a4:fixme:ntdll:EtwRegisterTraceGuidsW register trace class {485e7de9-0a80-11d8-ad15-505054503030}
00a4:fixme:ntdll:EtwRegisterTraceGuidsW register trace class {485e7dea-0a80-11d8-ad15-505054503030}
00a4:fixme:ntdll:EtwRegisterTraceGuidsW register trace class {485e7deb-0a80-11d8-ad15-505054503030}
00a4:fixme:ntdll:EtwRegisterTraceGuidsW register trace class {485e7dec-0a80-11d8-ad15-505054503030}
00a4:fixme:ntdll:EtwRegisterTraceGuidsW register trace class {485e7ded-0a80-11d8-ad15-505054503030}
00b0:fixme:service:I_ScRegisterDeviceNotification Notification filters are not yet implemented.
00c0:err:service:device_notify_proc failed to open RPC handle, error 1722
002c:fixme:ver:GetCurrentPackageId (0031FEA4 00000000): stub
0024:err:module:import_dll Library d3d9.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\KeroQ\\\7d20\6674\3089\3057\304d\65e5\300510th\\BGI.exe") not found
0024:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Importing dlls for L"C:\\KeroQ\\\7d20\6674\3089\3057\304d\65e5\300510th\\BGI.exe" failed, status c0000135
0034:fixme:ver:GetCurrentPackageId (0031FEA4 00000000): stub
They don't work with a clean wineprefix. In fact, I copied my wineprefix and winetricks folders over to a second computer and the programs worked on that second computer. The second computer is /also/ running updated arch linux with the same set of packages installed (quite literally the package listing pacman -Q is identical)
