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Kaurotu
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Since I'm getting very sick of Windows I am going to partition my hard drive and use Linux as my main OS. The only reason I'm keeping Windows around is for DB. Ok then, so I find this cool emulator called Wine (winehq.com) and saw that it can run WOW and a lot of other great Windows apps.

I was just wondering: Has anybody has tried it and got good perfromance from it? With WOW? Have you tired to get DB to work for it?(Although I don't think DB can work with any emulator...sadly.)

Well, any feedback on Wine would be awesome. I just need some more info before I port over. Thanks.

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 00:21
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The title was a little misleading

There are other emulators like this, they're pretty cool, but I've only ran Linux as a guest OS, with my RAM, a guest OS runs very poorly, so I never got to try them out.

In theory, these do give off good performance, over the net I've seen threads about it, it sounds like you get fair performance.

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Kaurotu
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Yeah I figured that they give decent performance. I mean...it's Linux.

Anyone else have some information?

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 01:22
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but... but... WINE Is Not an Emulator. o_O

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 09:58
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Kaurotu,

As TKF15H said, it's not an emulator.
It reads the Windows Binaries and tries to replace the functions that would normally be called with Linux based ones. That way, it isn't emulated but actually runs, full-on, on hardware, etc, and not in software.

At any rate, pretty much any decent Linux Distro you get will come with WINE preinstalled and ready to go.
If it doesn't, it's not hard to nab from a repository using any one of a few different methods (Terminal, Package Manager, etc, etc).

If you look at the WINE HQ site, it lists all the Windows apps that are known to run and have been reported as working, half-working, etc, etc.

It is the way to run Windows Binaries under Linux. It's the most widely supported, and has always been at the top the chain when it comes to updates and public interest.

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Kaurotu
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Thanks a lot Jess T. Yeah I'm looking into Fedora Core, so I'll see if it comes with Wine preinstalled.

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if your super keen as well some companies will work out the bugs for you for a small cost.
If someone has already had that game tweaked your in luck.
http://www.transgaming.com

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Kaurotu
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Indi, you rock!

Thanks for the link.

But is it worth the $5 a month? Wine is free. I'll have to see if I can talk my parents into it.

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depends on your budgets and needs i guess.

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if you know how to compile source from cvs then transgaming cedega is free, they only charge to give you almost ready made binaries.

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Kaurotu
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Sorry to ask but, What is cvs? And how do you compile source from it? Or rather, how do you get Cedega from it?

Thanks.

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Posted: 3rd Feb 2007 10:43
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Kaurotu,
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It sure does!

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Kaurotu
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Yeah yeah, I knew that was coming...

Well I'm going to try out Wine first. If I can't get it to work properly, I'll try out Cedega through cvs.

Thanks all.

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Posted: 6th Feb 2007 01:38 Edited at: 6th Feb 2007 01:42
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just a little personal experiance with wine gaming:
using the fedora core6 base install of wine on nvidia hardware (livna rpm drivers for the nvidia card) i have yet to find a game (directx, opengl whatever) that doesn't run "playably". my issues have never been with performance, i can set the details to max and it runs as well as in windowes, however the steam games text doesn't appear so menus don't exist relly, you have to know what you are doing with the console in the game (i think there is a fix but i didn't look hard).
also guildwars seems stuck at 640x480 and halo (yes halo runs in WinE!!) has a bizzar bug that if you get hit by a needler or pick up an overshield the screen goes wierd until you restart the app.

othe than that the games are very playable and windows apps seem to work fine too not just games.

edit: i'll try downloading a dbp app from somewhere on these forums and etst it, if you post a compiled spinning cube for example i'll get back tomorrow with the results (i might even try the compiler )

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Posted: 6th Feb 2007 08:09
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mm0zct, DBP games have already been tested on WINE with very limited results.

I believe that any game including the 3D core will not run, but most anything else will, I'm not sure.

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Posted: 6th Feb 2007 23:29 Edited at: 6th Feb 2007 23:46
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well with other fedora releases i've has issues with wine and cvs-cedega wasn't working at all for me, but the fedora6 package has yet to encounter something it won't actually run other that my own buggy opengl apps (runs most of them fine just 1 or 2 it doesn't like and i think it's all my code's fault) so i think there's been some imporovements on the wine package recently. time to find a downloadable standalone app..

edit results from TPS Speed game : stars then shuts with errors-


another game (MyLander) stars but just has a black screen and the terminal has these errors:


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