DirectX 8.0

[Andreas Mohr Usenet 10/01]

Sebastian Jaenicke <sjaenick at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> Hi, 

> I'm trying to install the game "Aquanox" under Wine which needs DirectX 8.0.
> I've found a mail in the wine mailing list archive stating that wine already
> includes DirectX, but Aquanox keeps complaining about a missing d3d8.dll. 
> Trying to install DirectX 8.0, I end up with "DirectX couldn't be installed
> on this computer".
> Any hints on this one?
First mistake: not using winex (which includes some Direct3D functionality)
Second mistake: winex doesn't support 8 yet, only 7 and to some extent older
versions.

Hope that helps :)

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