directX problem

[turtleface78]

Hey, I run 8.04 ubuntu and wine used to work fine, ive played lots of games without any problems. recently it has stopped working and whenever i try to play warcraft 3 i get the message "Warcraft 3 was unable to initialize directX...". It worked fine like 2 days ago and the only things that has changed since then is i have udpated to wine 1.1.6 ( not sure what i was running before udpate but probly most recent before 1.1.6) and i have been messing aroudn with compiz settings. Does anyoen know how i can get wc3 back up and running? All help appreciated

[Thelasko]

...the only things that has changed since then is i have udpated to wine 1.1.6

There's your problem. Wine Updates are supposed to fix bugs, but sometimes they create a few. Check the appdb (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1922), but I'm willing to bet the solution is to reinstall Warcraft.

[hikaricore]

Reinstalling warcraft is not quite a reasonable answer. (we're not using windows here) :p

Just downgrade your version of wine to the previous version and see if that fixes your problem.

[turtleface78]

I downgraded to 1.1.5 but i still get the same direcx error. I have a feeling that i screwed something up when i was messing around with compiz as I was playing around with alot of the added graphics features but im not sure if that woudl affect wine. Any others ideas i can try? I have to restart to windows whenver i want to play a game and its such a hassle knowing that I was playing games in linux less than aweek ago.

[turtleface78]

Comp specs are Pentium D 805, nvidia geforce 7600gs, 2 gigs ram...This error is driving me crazy i tried reinstalling warcraft but to no avail. I remember i had the same problem when i first installed wine and wc3 but i can't remember what i did to get it working. I have spent a lot of time searching for a solution without making any progress. Also when i try to run wc3 with -opengl it just give me teh same error just with opengl instead of directx.

[cogadh]

Disable Compiz, it doesn't get along with Wine all that well.

[david_kt]

Hey, I run 8.04 ubuntu and wine used to work fine, ive played lots of games without any problems. recently it has stopped working and whenever i try to play warcraft 3 i get the message "Warcraft 3 was unable to initialize directX...". It worked fine like 2 days ago and the only things that has changed since then is i have udpated to wine 1.1.6 ( not sure what i was running before udpate but probly most recent before 1.1.6) and i have been messing aroudn with compiz settings. Does anyoen know how i can get wc3 back up and running? All help appreciated

First of all, lock you wine to avoid confusion. Please read below thread for clearer explanation:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=944949

Second, disable compiz, it might interfere with wine.

Third,

glxinfo | grep render

Make sure direct rendering: Yes. If direct rendering: No, try:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

or any other method you ever tried to enable direct rendering.

DK