[Wine] rift won't start

[James McKenzie]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:54 AM, neganx <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> ok, sorry about that, I am a command line guy, but not at all comfortable with wine yet, just haven't really played with it,
> here is the command line output, the launcher opens from the desktop icon.. but not from command line, I may be
> attempting to run the wrong program in the folder as well, again most threads I have found on rift say everything works but
> the... (insert in-game problem)
>
>
> Code:
> s3ct10n_8 at wreckingball~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/RIFT Game$ wine rift.exe
> err:module:import_dll Library d3dx9_43.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\RIFT Game\\rift.exe") not found

The winetricks script is your friend at this point.
http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks provides information on how to
obtain and use this script.