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running wine on windows

Post by mattig89ch »

Howdy all, quick question.

As you know, The knights of the old republic games have a hard time running on windows 7 effectively, and even harder on vista.

I was wondering if you can run wine on windows? And if so, can you use it to run older programs that can't run on newer OS's?

Finally, are there any instructions on using wine?
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running wine on windows

Post by Doug »

On 8/8/2010 1:00 AM, mattig89ch wrote:
Howdy all, quick question.

As you know, The knights of the old republic games have a hard time running on windows 7 effectively, and even harder on vista.

I was wondering if you can run wine on windows? And if so, can you use it to run older programs that can't run on newer OS's?

Finally, are there any instructions on using wine?

Why not use the Win 7 virtualizer to run XP? Maybe the Knights game
runs OK on XP?

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Post by mattig89ch »

belive it or not, I've tried using VMWare to run KotOR. doesn't work out that well...
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Re: running wine on windows

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mattig89ch wrote:I was wondering if you can run wine on windows?
No, you can't. You can only use some Wine dlls in place of Windows' ones. Wine as a whole can't run on Windows.
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Post by mattig89ch »

ok, fair enough. I have a few mandriva disks that I can use to install the OS in vmware.

but my last question stands, is there a set of instructions for running wine on a linux distro?
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Post by dimesio »

mattig89ch wrote:but my last question stands, is there a set of instructions for running wine on a linux distro?
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ
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