Questions, :-) I'm a novice

UWF97Nole · Post by **UWF97Nole** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:18 am

I have EA's Need for Speed 2 and Need for Speed 3 Hot Pursuit.

Neither one will run on my WIN XP system. I have a pretty solid 3.0 Ghz system with a 256 MB nvidia graphics card.

I want to run these programs, can I download WINE HQ and play these?

I found this?

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... ngId=15217

But, I have no clue how to even start, how does this WINE HQ work?

Can I get these programs to utilize my graphics card with WINE HQ?

I apologize, I'm such a novice on this stuff.

I just want to run these games in the full capacity in graphics that they will run in on my machine? What application do I need to download, there are so many things on that list, I don't have a clue which one to download?

I apologize for being ignorant, I just do not know from the list what to download so I can get to running these games again. They are awesome games, and I just want to be able to play them.

Thank you so much
Robert

Marcel W. Wysocki · Post by **Marcel W. Wysocki** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:40 am

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:18:26 -0500
"UWF97Nole" <[email protected]> wrote:

Neither one will run on my WIN XP system. I have a pretty solid 3.0 Ghz system with a 256 MB nvidia graphics card.

do you even run a GNU/Linux system ?

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UWF97Nole · Post by **UWF97Nole** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:48 am

I only have a win xp system. have a friend who said I could possibly run this, in his saying, running windows on top of windows?

Is that ok to do, or is it not rec'd? I mean, I don't know anything about this stuff?

I'm a gamer, and just like playing old school games. I already run dosbox for my old-school dos based games. LOL

Marcel W. Wysocki · Post by **Marcel W. Wysocki** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:53 am

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:48:10 -0500
"UWF97Nole" <[email protected]> wrote:

I only have a win xp system. have a friend who said I could possibly run this, in his saying, running windows on top of windows?

you can not run wine on windows xp. from the winehq.com frontpage:

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.

Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.

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UWF97Nole · Post by **UWF97Nole** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:47 am

Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows

Does not require Windows, but thought you could run it from XP.

Alas, back to square one.

rockinup1231 · Post by **rockinup1231** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:44 pm

It's not intended to make apps work better in Windows, it's to make non-Windows OS's compatible with Windows apps. Even if you could run wine on windows without need for a virtual machine, it would probably run programs worse.