Running "Windows Only" games in WINE

[Michael R. Head]

On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 05:24 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> 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>
> > Message-ID: <1156636879.29901.72.camel at localhost>
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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.

I've used cedega to successfully and happily play WOW, WC3, and
Half-Life (1) on my AthlonXP 2000+ w/512M and a Geforce 5600 card. I
have windows XP on the same box, and the performance feel was
comparable, though noticably worse, under cedega.

> Kind regards
> Eberhard. 
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
suppressingfire.org
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