[Novalug] [OT] games for windows in linux, was: [OT] NTLDR error

The Doctor drwho@virtadpt.net
Mon Nov 23 10:39:26 EST 2009


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Alan Grimes wrote:

> I tried playing StarCraft on wine and it would BARELY play with no sound
> (or only a few channels of a multi-channel track playing, eg sound
> effects without music or music without effects). The video performance
> was awful. It normally plays fullscreen with mouse scrolling being a
> critical element. (move to the edge of the screen to scroll it), but
> since it was only able to play in a window it didn't really work. I was
> using FVWM at the time and I couldn't get it to render in the middle of
> a screen. Fortunately, I could move my viewport around the virtual
> desktop and line it up so it was almost barely playable.

For what it's worth, I've been using WINE to play a couple of games
(Starcraft, and Diablo I and II) for about three years now, and I've
never experienced what you describe.  Surprizon's VZAccess utility also
worked pretty well (though I haven't needed it since I got hold of the
phone number of my cellmodem).

What kind of hardware do you have?  What distro?  What revision of WINE?
 How was it compiled?

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