Okay, so yesterday I reinstalled Linux Mint, in preparation for my new RAM. I'm now running Isadora Gnome x64bit, and I installed Wine rc6 from the wine ppa. I got winetricks, installed gecko, and then installed the following:
corefonts
some corefonts smoothing files(normal smoothing and grayscale, I believe)
dotnet20
Then I tried for Osu again. the installer ran and failed at publishing like always, and I pretty much gave up right then and there, but to my surprise, Osu is opening consistently in direct3d mode when I run it on wine!
If I switch it to opengl mode, it breaks and will not open.
However, all is not well; on occasion the sound just dies out of nowhere, even after I configured wine to actually use an audio driver, which I hadn't done yet. Even if it doesn't, when I start a beatmap(so far tested with Full Metal Alchemist Rewrite), the game/beatmap freezes. I can hit escape and go back to the osu! menu but the sound will invariably be dead. Additionally, there are a few things that aren't rendered, like the boxes that cover the resolution settings in options and the text inside the little bubbles that show up for updates.
Also, I was able to sign into my account, that wasn't an issue surprisingly.
Could the problem be because I installed Directx10 and not...nine, or something? I'm scared to tamper with this too much more in case I do something stupid and break it all over again. I hope someone can help me here, thanks