[Wine] Sims?

[L. Rahyen]

On Monday July 16 2007 16:38, Warren Dumortier wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am asking it here :)
>
> My sister bought this game: Sims: Animal histories
>
> The installer works partially, when accepting a license, the installer
> says: 'Impossible to continue installation because this game derquier
> DirectX9.0c or higher. You can download it on M$..."

	If you are using latest version of WINE (0.9.41) with no native dlls 
installed by you then you definitely should write a bug report to 
http://bugs.winehq.org/ ; this will help developerts to fix your problem.
	But before doing this try the following:

mv ~/.wine ~/.wine.old
wineprefixcreate

	And try again to install your application. If it still doesn't work, please 
fill a bug report.
	Also try to run winecfg and try to set Windows version to win98 and win2000. 
If it does show any difference include this into your bug report.

> What can I do?
> Can you bypass the check?
> Maybe with adding dlls (native)?

	Native dlls are unlikely to help in this case. It is possible to bypass the 
check but proper way to solve the problem is to fill a bug report to 
http://bugs.winehq.org/ . This is especially true if you are simple user and 
don't know how to bypass installers.

> I also tried to installa DirectX installer included on the cd but it
> also doesn't work :S

	Native DirectX will never work. This is because it has some low level code 
which cannot work on Linux. This is why WINE has its own implementation of 
DirectX up to version 9.0c (DirectX 10 not supported yet).

> If I can't resolve this, then I will have to install Windows :S

	You may to install it using VMWare or QEmu on Linux, monitor all registry and 
disk changes (with regmon and filemon) before and after installation and 
import them into WINE drive_c and then try to run your game with WINE. Again, 
if you encouter additional problems don't forget to write a bug report.