DirectX is a graphics technology created by Microsoft. DirectX is available only on Microsoft Windows, and it is used in place of OpenGL on that platform. DirectX calls, due to the fact that the system is object-oriented, are reportedly slower than the equivalent OpenGL calls.
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How to install Directx9 for Wine?
I'd like to try playing League of Legends on Fedora. To do so, I installed Lutris, Wine and Winetricks. I installed LoL from the Lutris packages.
During the installation, the installer tells me that Directx9 is not found and necessary to run the…
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Directx application using wine over ssh -x
I'm trying to run a Windows app (Artemis video game - server mode) on my archlinux server. As it is an windows application I have to run it using Wine.
As I'd like to be able to launch the server from anywhere, I'd like to do it using ssh -X…
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DirectX installed on Wine althought it doesn't work in games
I have installed DirectX on Wine and used winetricks to have better graphics in my games. Although it doesn't work! When I want to run GTA: San Andreas it shows that I have to download and install DirectX. In other games, exactly nothing happens. I…
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Prevent Wine application from checking for DirectX
I am trying to install an application in Wine. The program will only work on Windows 95, so I set this option in winecfg. But when I run the installer, it checks if DirectX 3.0 is installed, and however it does that checking causes Wine to crash.…
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dxdiag.dll out of date? (Debian Wheezy 64 bit)
I am currently trying to make South Park: Stick of Truth work on Debian Wheezy (64 bit). Currently, upon launching the game, the game locks whatever workspace I'm on and I have to use xkill to stop it running.
I have reason to believe that the error…
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