A resource for which things I need on Wine to run games?

zorgoth · Post by **zorgoth** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:38 pm

I was wondering if people have ideas as to what the best place is to find out what I need to run games using Wine (not terribly specific, I play a lot of old and new games and just want some kind of link that is helpful). If there are particular dlls/utilities that are required for a lot of games it would be nice to know about those.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:41 pm

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:38 PM, zorgoth<[email protected]> wrote:

I was wondering if people have ideas as to what the best place is to find out what I need to run games using Wine (not terribly specific, I play a lot of old and new games and just want some kind of link that is helpful). Â If there are particular dlls/utilities that are required for a lot of games it would be nice to know about those.

Wine itself, a good (nvidia) graphics card and up to date drivers.

For more specific stuff:
http://appdb.winehq.org

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-Austin

zorgoth · Post by **zorgoth** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:49 pm

That's never worked for me, for one thing I don't have and can't get (since this is a laptop) an nvidia card. My intel card worked fine on windows before it sputtered and died. On Wine I can't even run the majority of old games, let alone new ones...

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:52 pm

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:49 PM, zorgoth<[email protected]> wrote:

That's never worked for me, for one thing I don't have and can't get (since this is a laptop) an nvidia card. Â My intel card worked fine on windows before it sputtered and died. Â On Wine I can't even run the majority of old games, let alone new ones...

Windows' Intel drivers are designed to use the CPU to do most
intensive tasks, to make up for the lack of gpu power. The Linux/Unix
drivers don't do this, and so perform poorly.

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-Austin

zorgoth · Post by **zorgoth** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:55 pm

And naturally there is no workaround for that... ?

James Huk · Post by **James Huk** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:12 pm

2009/6/30 zorgoth <[email protected]>

And naturally there is no workaround for that... ?

Well You could write your own drivers - this is open source after all

other then that - wait for new drivers release.
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