[Wine] Suggestions for AppDB

[DARKGuy .]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:46 PM, dimesio <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>  I believe the system requirements for programs under Wine are supposed to be the same as under Windows, so I don't really see the need for this info. (I could be wrong about that, of course.)

Not really, Transformers: The game, doesn't work under WINE with the
same GPU it does under Windows (GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP8X 128Mb) just
because it lacks an OpenGL extension that DirectX knows how to work
out correctly, and so the game works under Windows and it throws an
error saying you don't have Pixel Shader 1.1 in WINE.

Same happens with Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which has
blocky-to-blank textures (my guess is that it's a shader emulation
issue) and WAY less FPS (not to mention stupid crash & sound bugs),
compared to playing it under Windows, fully working.

Requirements can differ. With the same GPU, I get about 5-10 FPS less
under WINE than in Windows when playing World of Warcraft. I changed
GPUs and haven't tested since then, but the difference was -very-
noticeable. Hard Disk load was less though =).

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:52 AM, vitamin <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>  Most of that information is irrelevant for regular applications (not games). Requiring everyone to inter it would be counter productive.

Then make a selection box to choose if what you're submitting is a
program or a game, problem solved and everyone gets what they want.