Thanks. Could I get you to add your system info like in this post? inxi -SG will return all the needed info.
I'm guessing you don't actually need d3dx10 if you are running the DX9 exe?

Yeah, that's probably a good catch. I didn't even see it until you pointed it out to me now. I'll go update the post with the inxi output.

In addition, I know that Judas™ doesn't really like Play On Linux, but I really love POL and its ability to download several different versions of WINE. Getting a game to run on a specific version of POL Wine is not hard at all.

Frankly I don't put a lot of trust in these random install scripts written by random people on the Internet. Another problem is that they age. Someone just slaps on a "working" wine version, and the script insists on using that from there on, and nobody updates it, ever. With this approach you'll never know if a later version of Wine would run it better. And people get very lazy about reporting bugs and (especially important!) *regressions* upstream, so the likelihood of them getting fixed is lower. I wonder if these scripts are why wine's appdb is seeming so dead these days? There are lots of games whose test results are years old, but then you can find people using old PoL scripts.. which might be using old versions of wine along with hacks and fixes when a new version would run the game perfectly out of the box.

My ideal is that there ought to be one definite best version -- the latest version. But it takes work to get there, and people arbitrarily running old versions without ever bothering to test (and report back) on the current release doesn't help.

I really like PoL, makes running games a lot easier, especially meeting each one's special requirements (if they need it). BTW I never use their install scripts as it's outdated.

(please note this might be a rant)
But the problem I have found with AppDB is that it's mods are sometimes very unhelpful, and there are stuff in my submit queue from beginning of February. Also found a mod or two that'll reject a submission without even giving the submission a cursory glance, I resubmitted a few in the last few months were the mod stated that I'm missing data (especially when giving it a gold rating), when the data is there in the original submission. Once had to change the rating from Gold to Platinum just because the mod was to lazy to read the submission: can't remember which game it was, but wrote that to make it work you need to run winetricks directx9 before you run the game, I had the submission rejected twice because I "didn't write how to make it work" (paraphrased), changed the rating to platinum just to bypass the "illiterate" mod. for another mod I wrote in CAPITALS to point to the fact that the info that's "missing" was there if he cared to read the submission. So ja, I don't doubt that dealing with mods that don't really care about moderating, that the AppDB is in the mess that it is

Nope. Normally install it using PoL (to get it to work, then repeat that steps on a clean wineprefix under vanilla wine that comes from the repo.

I'm not sure why I'm getting the short end :P just an example this: this was accepted as is, this [url=https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=33320]one I had to resubmit at least once (with an all caps reply) the mod stated there was "no Additional Comments" yet I wrote it in my initial submission

I don't really use the POL scripts. I do use POL to download vanilla Wine releases. I think that way, you'd still be eligible to reporting WineHQ bugs. Also, it's a nice way to do regression testing, no? :-)

Regarding Lethis: Path of Progress:

After latest Wine 1.9.5 update game works without any issues on R9 270x (with latest AMD proprietary drivers) and OS Linux Mint 17.3. Previously it was stuck on the first loading screen before the menu and was unplayable. Now there are no issues. So new update for Wine (came online today) + new mono version installed (as always after wine update) and game is fluid (perhaps only a bit longer loading time then on windows).

From Winetricks I already had following installed: d3dx9_36 and vcrun 2010 - don't know if that was needed or not.

System info:
Kernel: 3.19.0-32-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
Distro: Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa
Graphics: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Curacao XT [Radeon R7 370 / R9 270X/370 OEM]
GLX Renderer: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
GLX Version: 4.5.13416 - CPC 15.302

:-) That is definitely true, but if you wanted a quick way to verify if an older version didn't have this problem, you could use POL to download the older releases (instead of git pulling and configure, make, and what not). This was how I identified Assassin's Creed over excited sunlight problem. It was bothering me quite a bit and I remembered that it didn't do that before. Don't get me wrong. That Wine Regression article is useful, but only after you know which git branch to look into. ;-)

Great thanks. Don't suppose you want to stick that at the top? ;)
Uhh, sure? Guess I missed something, but speaking of trivially trying different Wine engines... I don't suppose you feel like trying the latest 1.9.x POL has re: the sunlight bug?

Done.