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I downloaded a patch to install DirectX 9 under Wine, but where do I put the patch for it to work?

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Brief summary of the situation and focused fixes (for the thread by with suggestions from and ):

The crash after the intro movie is a common Wine-game symptom. Two distinct subsystems typically cause it: the movie/codec path (Wine’s multimedia/quartz handling) and the Direct3D/display-focus path (device resets or mode changes when the game takes/loses focus). The wine log lines already posted point in both directions, so targeted troubleshooting is faster than blind tinkering.

Concrete, high‑value steps that were not fully covered in the replies above

  • Movie/codec side: missing MPEG or Windows media components often let the cutscene start but fail when control returns to the main game. Installing the Windows media pieces and the common D3DX pieces via winetricks (or equivalent) often fixes movie playback crashes:

    winetricks quartz wmp9 d3dx9

    Also ensure the Linux multimedia backend (GStreamer/ffmpeg) has MPEG/DShow support installed, or force Wine to use a native quartz.dll override if the built‑in splitter fails.

  • Graphics / focus side: crashes triggered by clicks or Enter are frequently device‑reset issues when the game switches display modes or loses focus. Useful mitigations: run the game inside Wine’s virtual desktop, force windowed mode if available, and use up‑to‑date vendor GPU drivers (proprietary drivers give far better D3D→OpenGL results than generic drivers). Since compiling Wine was a concern, try a prebuilt newer Wine (Wine Staging or a front end like PlayOnLinux) instead of rebuilding from source—this was suggested by but is worth emphasizing.

  • Gathering evidence: collect focused logs for the developers/community by enabling only the relevant debug channels and saving output:

    WINEDEBUG=+quartz,+d3d wine gta_sa.exe &> wine-game.log

Check the Wine AppDB entry for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for game‑specific registry tweaks and DLL overrides before applying any registry hacks. Finally, be aware that unofficial cracks/no‑CD binaries can themselves introduce instability; testing with a clean, known‑good install helps separate game issues from binary patches.

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Unless I'm badly mistaken, I believe the patch you downloaded is for source code. In other words, you download the wine source, apply the patch using patch (big surprise there), and then compile and install the software the way you would expect.

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Aw damn.
I don't wanna recompile Wine.

Maybe you can help me though.
Alright, so I installed Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas using a DVD (mounted from ISO >.>). The install went perfectly. Then I try to run it (nocd patch, sue me) and it gives me a blank white screen, which flashes twice, goes black, goes the white screen and my wireless icon (system tray). Then whenever I press "Enter" or click anywhere, it crashes. My Wine log is this:

alex@alex-laptop:~$ cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Rockstar\ Games/GTA\ San\ Andreas/
alex@alex-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Rockstar Games/GTA San Andreas$ wine gta_sa.exe 
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8193 (SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT)
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x34f78c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:ddraw:IDirectDrawImpl_SetCooperativeLevel (0x124090)->((nil),00000008)
fixme:ddraw:IDirectDrawImpl_SetCooperativeLevel (0x123fe8)->((nil),00000008)
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_CheckDeviceMultiSampleType Quality levels unsupported at present
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_EvictManagedResources (0x1288e8) : stub
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 59 (SPI_SETSTICKYKEYS)
fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {2721ae20-7e70-11d0-a5d6-28db04c10000} not found
fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {cc7bfb41-f175-11d1-a392-00e0291f3959} not found
fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {cc7bfb46-f175-11d1-a392-00e0291f3959} not found
fixme:quartz:MPEGSplitter_query_accept MPEG-1 system streams not yet supported.
fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {2721ae20-7e70-11d0-a5d6-28db04c10000} not found
fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {cc7bfb41-f175-11d1-a392-00e0291f3959} not found
fixme:devenum:DEVENUM_ICreateDevEnum_CreateClassEnumerator Category {cc7bfb46-f175-11d1-a392-00e0291f3959} not found
fixme:quartz:MPEGSplitter_query_accept MPEG-1 system streams not yet supported.
Initialised SoundManager
fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundBufferImpl_SetFX (0x368f930,0,(nil),(nil)): stub
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 59 (SPI_SETSTICKYKEYS)
alex@alex-laptop:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Rockstar Games/GTA San Andreas$
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I've had very limited success using wine, although the first thing I'd recommend you try is running winecfg and playing with some of the settings there. Also, test that wine is setup correctly by running notepad before trying to run a full-blown game.

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I've been using Wine for some time now, and I've been messing with winecfg.

I guess the best I can do is to mess around a bit more.

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Updates:

I actually got DirectX 9.0 installed under Wine, and I can now play the opening cutscene to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

However, if I click, press enter, or wait for it to end, it crashes back to my desktop.

Any help?

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You should probably try.9.53, not the ancient version packaged with Ubuntu.

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I used sudo apt-get install wine to install Wine, so technically shouldn't I have the most updated version?

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No.

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The source is here

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Thanks.

Haha, I used Wine-Doors to install it. It was quite easy.

And I abandoned my whole GTA obsession under WINE.

I'd still like a good Sandbox game however.

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