Games :: Wine



I'm not a gamer.  My friend however is.  I've been preaching to him about DSL, but he wont even try it out.  He says "why try something I am never going to use?"  He wont try anything Linux because he is affraid that he wont be able to play his games.

My question to you is, how do these games run on DSL with Wine?  I've heard some games run even a little faster on other distros then windows.  Let me know what you think and if you've tried it.

Thanks,
Jesse
Quite a few new games are being released natively under Linux, so you don't need WINE for them.
Try the demo of UT2004 - reasonably easy to get going under DSL once you have 3d acceleration going with the XFree86 and nVidia packages (assuming you have an nvidia card).  For me it works faster under DSL than under XP.

Hell, half of the old windows games no longer work under XP anyway...  and a lot of the new ones are being released natively for linux...  so gaming's looking better!
But what about Wine?  Have you used it on DSL yet?  Do games run as smooth on it as they do in Windows?
Ah yes..   g a m e s  !!   :)

Here are some older links in the gaming section of some
screenies that I have running several games in wine in dsl.
They perform fine with some minor adjustments..

Soldier of Fortune II
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=4144

High Heat Baseball 2003
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=4146

Starcraft
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=4143

This list doesn't require wine to run under DSL..

Quake II, UT2003/UT2004, RTCW, Myth II,
Heroes III-Might & Magic, Tuxracer, Foobillard, Heretic II,
Frozen Bubble, Briquolo, Wolfenstein, Spear of Destiny,
Enrapture, Wesnoth, Chromium, Railroad Tycoon II,
Cube, Freeciv, Wolfenstein ET, Torcs, Quake III Arena

73
ke4nt
Bah.

You people and your fancy-schmancy games with their shiny 3d graphics.

I need them not.

NetHack consumes my soul.
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