Running "Windows Only" games in WINE

Eberhard Roloff tuxebi at gmx.de
Sun Aug 27 03:24:32 UTC 2006


On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:40:05 +0100
ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:

> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:01:19 -0400
> From: John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net>
> Subject: Re: Running "Windows Only" games in WINE
> To: mike williams <a-bracmike at sbcglobal.net>,	Ubuntu
> Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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[...copy protected games with wine cause trouble...]
> > 
> I've had to stop using wine, since it really doesn't appear to
> do much, other than office and photoshop...
> 
> I've been told by some of the members here about vmware, and,
> from what I've read so far, seems to be a better choice.

Yes, definitely. But of course, you sacrifice some windows
performance if running under vmware (imho negliable for apps like
office or IE, Outlook or mediaplayer and such, but much more
significant for "heavy" games. 

In contrast, wine runs apps natively (if it
runs, that is ;-) ), so the speed is comparable to original
windows. 


I do not know about "wow-craft", but if it is a hardware
demanding action game and does not run under wine, you could
search for cedega (i.e. a commercial version of wine, especially
for games, see www.transgaming.com for more information), and if
that does not work either, then it might be better to use it on
a dual boot machine, where windows runs directly on the
underlying hardware.

Kind regards
Eberhard. 




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