Wine and DirectX

[LinuxBomber]

Will wine emulate games that require DirectX?

Does it have the required dll's etc?

Or I will have to install directx on wine before?

[v0id]

I once installed Battlefield 2 using Wine. It took a lot of time and configurations, but I got it working, and it ran pretty nice too (some minor graphics-bugs) I didn't have to install DirectX at all. Wine seemed to emulate it, or it may have the required files as default.

[TcM]

Well, I think that even if a game will not work, you can always install DirectX on Wine, can't you?

[rumen]

WINE has the default dll's integrated into it, so it should be able to run Windows applications.

[Homebrewer]

if you patch it with the correct one. the only thing i knew to run a little bit well was max payne 2

[MHJ]

What exactly is wine? How does it work and what is its relationship to game playing? This isn't something I have heard of before.

[WingedPanther]

wine is a Windows API call interpreter, which allows Windows programs to run on Linux. Games are particularly popular for that

[aftertaste]

There may be some unusable software but i guess you can run COD4 with it it you are patient enough.