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Sup guys,

and yet another question. I hope it's not an issue, just trying to understand how Crossover and Wine work a bit better. 😇

I have been testing out a few things and one of them is installing all of my games via Steam - in a single Steam bottle. I know the recommended method is creating a seperate bottle for each game, and that's exactly what I have been doing in the past, but I just wanted to see if it's possible this way. It sure is a lot easier. So far I haven't had any major issues.

Questions:

• Does installing DirectX 9 and DirectX modern in the same bottle cause any issues or can the two coexist with eachother? Will apps requiring one of the two use the version required or can this approach create conflicts?

• Some games prefer to install DirectX 9 instead of DirectX modern. Some games even prefer or require DirectX 9. Why is this?

• Why is DirectX 9 ranked with a bronze medal? I haven't had any issues using it so far. What exactly are the issues and isn't Wine supposed to be able to use native .dll files without a prob?

Thanks,
Alex

Alexander Tornow wrote:

• Does installing DirectX 9 and DirectX modern in the same bottle
  cause any issues or can the two coexist with eachother? Will apps
  requiring one of the two use the version required or can this
  approach create conflicts?

This works without issues. The difference is that DirectX - Modern executes the DirectX redistributable package with winver = winxp. That way it installs files like XAudio and XInput that are only supported on XP and newer. The drawback is that it does not install things WinXP ships out of the box, especially DirectPlay and DirectMusic. DirectX 9 runs the installer with winver = win2k. That way it installs all the old files, but not the new ones.

Alexander Tornow wrote:

• Some games prefer to install DirectX 9 instead of DirectX modern.
  Some games even prefer or require DirectX 9. Why is this?

Games that require the non-modern version usually need it for dplay.

Alexander Tornow wrote:

• Why is DirectX 9 ranked with a bronze medal? I haven't had any
  issues using it so far. What exactly are the issues and isn't Wine
  supposed to be able to use native .dll files without a prob?

No idea about the ranking. Wine can use high level native DLLs - dplay, d3dx9_xy.dll helper libs, dmusic. It cannot use the low level libraries: ddraw.dll, d3d8.dll, d3d9.dll, d3d10.dll d3d10core.dll, dxgi.dll, d3d11.dll. For those we provide our own implementation that call OpenGL instead of the Windows graphics driver. Out d3d10/11 implementation doesn't run anything yet though.