[Wine] Game install, Microsoft DirectX (tm) limitation.

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Fri May 8 07:49:31 CDT 2009


On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:48 AM, BinaryBurnout <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I have recently been trying to install a game made for Windows 95 titled Thief: The Dark Project. Unfortunately it seems to be having a problem with some sort of DirectX limitation. I am extremely inexperienced in dealing with wine so please if there is any more information I can give you, feel free to ask.
>
> Upon activation on the install executable (wine setup.exe) the install process appears to begin only to disappoint me when the following error message arrives...
>
> Code:
> This product can not be installed on Windows NT due to a Microsoft DirectX (tm) limitation.

Run 'winecfg' and set the windows version to windows 95.

-- 
-Austin



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