Wine speed

[jocult001]

I am used to windows as school has every pc on windows, and we also used to have windows. i really enjoyed a game called spiral knights and on windows it was quite fast, but with wine it took ages to load
also another thing, on wine i downlaoded steam and that logs me in but if i try to go to the store on it, it closes

can any one help me on either of these problems
Jasper

[dimesio]

I am used to windows as school has every pc on windows, and we also used to have windows. i really enjoyed a game called spiral knights and on windows it was quite fast, but with wine it took ages to load
also another thing, on wine i downlaoded steam and that logs me in but if i try to go to the store on it, it closes

can any one help me on either of these problems

You should stick to one problem per thread, and you haven't posted enough information to help you with either. Let's start with the basics: what version of Wine, what graphics card and driver? If you're not using the latest development release of Wine, upgrade.

Steam has a very detailed howto in the AppDB. Have you read it and followed all the steps? http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=19444

[Cloudef]

Spiral Knights? Isn't that a Java game, meaning you can run it native under linux.

[DOSGuy]

Yes, Spiral Knights is a Java game, not a Windows game.

[Mateusz Stachowski]

Spiral Knights have a native Linux client, but you won't get it from Steam. You have to go to the official website. I have just tested the browser version and it works good (even on OpenJDK in Ubuntu 11.04). Anyway you can find more info about getting it on Linux right here:

http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2011/03/spir ... rs-of.html

That's supposedly blog about Ubuntu but it probably have more posts regarding games than the distreo itself.

Penguspy has a nice list of games for Linux:

http://www.penguspy.com/spiral-knights/