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Wine

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Quaggoth

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OK, I ran Whistler B2296 for a few days, it's cool, but needs more memory than I currently have (96MB), and I can't get 2000 to get past the plug and play detection routine (Not that I care for using 2000 anyway). I am thinking of just going with straight Redhat 7.0 w/ the 2.4 Kernel.

What I would like to know is, How far has Wine come since the last time I tried it. I need to be able to run my windows games (Falcon 4.0, Mech4, Half-Life Counter Strike), basically DX8 games. Is it possible? I don't mind futzing with it to make it all work (As long as I can get drivers for an Intel 2100 DSL modem). I just want to know if I can make this happen.

thx. in adv.
 
You know, if Linux ran windows software decently, and someone like redhat packaged it, That would go a LONG way in influencing peoples decisions on what OS to use. I can make things work if it's possible, but most people just want easy. I think Linux really has the tools to put a big hurt on MS. It just needs polish.
 
You couldn't possibly run games like that at performance levels you would consider acceptable, even if the software existed to do it. (VMware might) Performance will be slow, since everything has to go through extra software layers. WINE is alpha software, always was, always will be, because Windows is not a static platform. Linux is not a Windows replacement, its an alternative, with its own advantages and drawbacks, and more people should realize that.
 
Hmmm, that seemed to have come out wrong. Still true though.

Earthman -
I do realize that, but I am a gamer . It's just been a long time since I tried wine, or even looked into it.

I guess it will have to be 98SE AND Redhat.

 
Quaggoth

What is the difficulty wtih the concept of using the right tool for the job? In this case you want to play games and they run on a Windows OS. This means RUN WINDOWS for those games. I've been collecting more games for Linux as time goes on, but I'm also getting stuff for consoles since there are no issuses with the OS. The combination means I don't have a need to boot into Windows for games. We each get to decide what we want to do and then should choose the right tool based on that.
 
I get it. really. maybe it's just the propeller head in me. I like Linux a whole lot more than windows, but most of the reason I like PC's is for the games. It seems pretty natural to me for someone to want to use the better tool to do what they want to do. My question was simply "Will the better tool work as well as the crappy tool for what I want to do?". It seems like it won't. No reason to be a dick.
You are right though, there is NO reason I shouldn't use the right tool for the job. The question was aimed at finding out if wine would modify the better tool into something that would be the right tool. as I said, seems like it won't. Thanks for the answers.
 
what about one of the emulators like vmware, they are the most well known, but there are others. of course you need plenty of ram though
 
Ok, first Linux is gaining popularity in the gaming community with the new 2.4 kernel, as well as enterprise networks. But is not a replacement by any means, yet. Linux development is in the works, along with gaming, but it takes time. I have loaded the new 4.0.2 Xwindows and with the nvidia drivers. I can run Half life Counter Strike with about 95% compatiblity. It just took some tweaking. I do notice a rise in framerates as well. So with this known, gaming development is just going to improve.

So if your a skilled linux user, I suggest only running linux, because it has many improvements over Windows. Expecially COST!
 
If you really want to go Linux for your main os I would still put 98se on there for games.
You could run your Linux install for everything, but if you need to play a game just reboot into Windows.
 
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