[Wine] Re: no game seems to work with wine

[dimesio]

John Drescher wrote:
> 
> I do have every email but the problem (slowness in every game with an
> ancient nVidia card and hardware) seems unsolvable since nothing seems
> to help and the user is not a linux guru.
> 


I think the problem was solved very early in this thread:


> Your Graphics card is ancient, I mean really ancient.
> It doesn't even support directX 9.
> 
> I think Wine is forced to use some opengl features in software (that's why the games that work are so slow) and some features aren't available at all (Z-buffer). So if you upgrade your graphics card to any newer graphics card that might solve your problem.


And the user's response was:


> why would i do that
> the games work fine in windows
> am not buying a new graphics card 


There's really nothing more to be said.