rome directx?

Folkert · Post by **Folkert** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:30 pm

dear people, first of all I am a newbie when it comes to ubuntu, wine and everything, so this is a disclaimer in the very probable case that I ask a stupid question.

The issue is this: I installed Rome Total war +barbarian invasion, which goes smoothly, when I start however the program asks for directx 9. what to do?

I use wine 1.3.26 and Ubuntu 10.10

I tried downloading patches, but failed to know how to continue, even tried installing directx but got issues after all. it seems to me that I try difficult options while the solution is actually very easy. I would be very grateful if someone could help me.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:47 pm

On 8/13/11 3:30 PM, Folkert wrote:

dear people, first of all I am a newbie when it comes to ubuntu, wine and everything, so this is a disclaimer in the very probable case that I ask a stupid question.

The issue is this: I installed Rome Total war +barbarian invasion, which goes smoothly, when I start however the program asks for directx 9. what to do?

Did you read through the Rome: Total War Applications Database entry
which is here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=3083
????

Please do so. There is an entry on how to get DirectX to work
properly. Also, you may have to start over with a Fresh or New
Wineprefix. How to do this is in the FAQ (http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ).

James

Folkert · Post by **Folkert** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 11:45 am

thanks jjmckenzie for taking time to respond. what I did now is installing direct x via wineprefix. Thanks for the suggestion, but so far no succes.

also I checked the link you gave me n the applications Database (actually I had looked there before) but I can't find the entry on directx. can you please specify where to look?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:46 am

Folkert wrote:I checked the link you gave me n the applications Database (actually I had looked there before) but I can't find the entry on directx.

You won't find one. Wine has it's own DirectX implementation. Native DX will not work with exception of some helper dlls.

Post terminal output you get when starting the game http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log

asb · Post by **asb** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 6:59 am

It sounds like you're running in to issues before you get to this stage, but there is a known regression in Rome Total War in wine 1.3.26:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28015