[Bug 26209] Requiem: Avenging Angel Demo requires DirectX 6 to play

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26209

--- Comment #7 from Andrew Nguyen <arethusa26 at gmail.com> 2011-02-23 04:18:45 CST ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > (In reply to comment #3)
> > > Does it work on native XP? May be a game bug (though XP may have it in its
> > > compatibility list)...
> > 
> > The demo does not work out of box on Windows 7, and none of the Windows
> > compatibility versions allows the game to start, so I think the bug can be
> > considered invalid.
> 
> Don't forget Wine is not Windows. It's not a buggy application just not very
> future proof, just like a game/app that needs Windows 98 and setting that in
> Winecfg is okay. But having DirectX 9 on the old and unsupported by Microsoft,
> is that okay?

Arguably, the demo's broken decoding of a DirectX version string from the
registry, which might not even be the sanctioned method in the first place, is
buggy. I feel that having compatibility knobs modeled on similar functionality
on Windows is perfectly fine, but you can't have changes in Wine that totally
contradict what Windows actually has/does.

That said, you're perfectly entitled to make whatever local changes you please
to your Wine prefix. I just don't think it makes sense to change the DirectX
registry version string in Wine contrary to what Windows ever had.

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