Firs of all, when it comes to Linux and it's crazy antics, no matter what distro and package I may want to combine, BRING OUT THE HATCHET!!!
Ubuntu Forums -
http://ubuntuforums.org/
Great source of information, the site uses a theme I wanted to create and use independently and before them, that means I will be accused of plagiarims when I will use it
some dlls? a guide about Oblivion? the two most critical things are left out?
i knew the rest can you please fill in the blanks. I found a link on google but it looked like a different solution.
Using the search function for Wine and other games -
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=349764&
As Wine changes and distros change, the how-to guides are no longer usable. But combining the knowledge in each and finding out WHY you do those things, build up a new way of fixing things in your mind. If it doesn't, you don't have hacker (ethical/black hacker) abilities.
copying some dx9 dlls is that not basicaly like copying the windows folder content from your windows installation where you run PE to the wine system folder?
Copying 30 files is not the same as copying 600mb of useless files. But you can assume that "copy dx dlls" is included in "copy all dlls". I just copied dx*.dll and d3*.dll.
I read somewhere that you need the msttcorefonts. Can't tell if that happens with Cedega, coz I didn't get that far.
As stated above, msttcorefonts is the first thing I installed. Afte VU 8.7 alot of interface objects changed, and linux/odd win language font packs do not show any texts....
How long did it take your loading screen to setup the game in windowed? It hung a long time at "Initializing" for me, and then died. Well it was dead when I came back to look. Might try to sit this through some time.
Wine boots in 10-15 seconds. This happens for each EXE launched (clientloader, entropia). After that, there is a slight slowdown when loading the world, since linux chugs everything into ram, and while rendering, cpu and disk seem to get low priorities. As for video performance, almost as good as in native Windows.
Will try again this evening with cp windows/system32/d* as you did.
Did you ever finish the DX9 Install? Isn't quite clear.
The dxwebsetup shuts up after copying the native dx9 dlls. The DX9 redist package doesn't seem to install anything, but it does try to check if the latest stuff is installed.
Don't bother with DX9 setups or updates, copy the XP dlls.
I mentioned copying d*.dll, but you may restrict to dx*.dll and d3*.dll.
i know it easy for me to say "keep it up guys", you're doin all the hard work here.
This is becoming a really interesting thread.......
Well, another_very_very_big_mmorpg has a medium number of millions of subscribers. 3% of them use the game on linux via Wine and Cedega. It works very well on linux. They KNOW it, they WON'T DO anything about it (as in linux binary client). Draw your conclusion.
The only thing I can't seem to figure out is why most of the font isn't showing up. 
