Adding d3d9x_xx dlls to winetricks?

[Stefan Dösinger]

I think the proper thing to do is to install the DirectX runtime / 
redistributable. It installs all the DLLs and registers them in the registry 
etc.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=740AC79A-5B72-447D-84F9-EE6407ED1A91&displaylang=en

The newest redist is downloadable without issues, archived older ones need a 
WGA check. For installing the package, a mscoree="" override is needed, and 
wininet=builtin, as our wininet defaults to native, which doesn't work for 
this installer for some reason. You may also want to set ddraw, d3d8, d3d9, 
dsound, dinput etc. to native temporarily during the installation to have 
themselves register properly and create various registry entries apps may 
check. Don't forget to set them back to builtin afterwards...

Technically the application is required to install this, but many apps don't 
do this, or the installation fails.

Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 10:27:09 schrieb Tom Wickline:
> You could update winetricks at each DX redistributable release
> the last one was in March. Me myself I would add all the d3d9x_*
> dlls rather then just two of them, there are older games and benchmark
> software that needs the older ones as well.
>
> -Tom
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:41 AM, H. Verbeet <hverbeet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2008/5/21 Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>:
> >> So... lots of people are going around installing
> >> all of directx, and maybe all they needed was, say,
> >> d3d9x_35.  That's not good.  This sounds like
> >> a job for winetricks!
> >> But I know nothing about direct3d.  Could somebody
> >> have a look at this draft and see if it suffices?  All
> >> I added was d3d9x_35 and d3d9x_36, is that
> >> the right set?
> >
> > They're the right dlls (although the packages should probably be
> > called d3d9x_35 and d3d9x_36 rather than d3d9_35 and d3d9_36), but the
> > trouble with these dlls is that there are quite a few different
> > versions, a new version is released every couple of months, and
> > applications just use whatever is current when they're
> > released/developed.