[Wine] Re: Tell me the truth about WINE

Darren Wilkinson spamtrap at spamtrap.spamtrap
Mon Mar 19 00:47:31 CDT 2007


jhansonxi at gmail.com wrote:
> Ham Pastrami wrote:
>> I'm an avid gamer, I play all kinds of games and a wide variety of specific
>> titles, be they on the A-list or B-list. How realistic would it be for a
>> person like me to rely solely on WINE for PC gaming?
>>
>> The question is especially poignant here and now, with Vista on the horizon
>> and DX10 compatibility forcing Windows users to upgrade (for the record, I'm
>> still on 2k by choice, and have no desire to continue using Windows as it
>> becomes more invasive with regard to WGA, DRM, product activation and the
>> like.) I would like an honest assessment of what gaming would be like if I
>> made the jump to Linux (or rather, didn't make the jump to Vista) when DX10
>> games start rolling around. Is WINE robust enough that it would make a dual
>> boot of Vista unnecessary?
> 
> The App DB is not always up to date.  Some games work on some systems
> with a particualr WIne version but not on others with the same version.
>  Some games work better on Wine than on XP.  It depends on the
> functions and hardware.  Wine's DirectX support is in a significant
> state of flux right now because of DirectX 9 support and related
> changes.  You might want to try Win2K in an emulator like QEMU or
> VMWare.
> 
AFAIK QEMU ain't siuitable for gamers. It only emulates an old Cirrus VGA 
graphics card. That won't be much use for gaming.


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