Can't Initialize Direct Draw

[Propfam 2,305]

Hello,

I've installed my SimCity 4 on my Fedora 27 with Wine 3.0. After setting up the shortcut and clicking it, it works but the DirectX renderer can't run and showing the rare "Can't initialize Direct Draw". After clicking OK, the game goes to the software renderer. It's rare because lots of people get either graphical glitch or even a CTD. My Wine comes with DirectX 10 & 11 support and improved DirectWrite and Direct2D, and I installed DirectX. What is the cause of this?

Thanks.

[rsc204 21,866]

Bear in mind SC4 was designed to run on DirectX 7 and the last supported version was 9.0c. If you don't have the necessary legacy support for that, you won't be able to run with DirectX. Yes, on Windows installation of a newer version of DX provides backwards compatibility. But since I don't know how DX was ported or whether such legacy support was included, I think that's the first thing you should check in to. Although from the message on startup, either DX is not installed/working/compatible or your video drivers aren't.

[Handyman 791]

Are you running AMD or Nvidia graphics?

[Propfam 2,305]

10 hours ago, Handyman said:

Are you running AMD or Nvidia graphics?

Intel HD Graphics 3000.

[Handyman 791]

Unfortunately I have no experience with ArchLinux or Intel Graphics. To this point I have only used Debian based systems.

I can tell you that when I switched my game system from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 (and newer), I no longer had Directx available.

This was also after I upgraded my motherboard/processor (AMD A8 APU) and discovered I could no longer use my discreet Nvidia gpu.

I discovered, after some research, that there are no currently updated drivers for my system (open source or proprietary).

After a lot of trial and failure I decided to downgrade back to 14.04 which still seems able to load an open source driver that works great. And 14.04 is still supported until next year so maybe this gets sorted out by then.

Hopefully something here will help you identify a course of action.