First of all, I'm new here so hi there. I used to use crossover but I realized that Wine has a bit more support when it comes to running apps, as well as being free
Anyway, I have installed winebottler 1.4.3 which works fine but I have one problem with World in Conflict. I have done everything to make it run (see http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=9237) but I keep getting the error that "Directx 9.0b or later is required to run this application". Doesn't Wine support this anyway? Should I be installing DX 9.0c with the microsoft provided installer?
Any help with this matter is GREATLY appreciated. I have been struggling for ages now trying to get this working.
Well, despite (having read somewhere) the recommendation of NOT installing DirectX, many titles you will install will install DirectX by default. And I have found that installing DirectX does help titles run.
Wine has its own implementation of DirectX. If an application wants to install it, your game will probably still use (mostly) just the Wine native DirectX libraries instead.
Like r2rX said, it probably won't hurt (though it's better to install only the d3d core through Winetricks and not DirectX itself).
jackshiels wrote:Fixed! Just turned on emulated desktop mode. Apparently this has comething to do with XQuartz.
Yipee!
XQuartz does not support the RANDR extension. Pretty much any fullscreen game needs to be run in a virtual desktop. I have some hacked up work arounds to this if you use Wineskin, so you can do fullscreen with resolution switching... not the best in the world since it doesn't have true RANDR, but its a decent work around for many games.
The big advantage Crossover has on the Mac is they have a much better x.org based X server than Xquartz for running Wine... they just don't make it available to anyone...
