[Balug-talk] Wine

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:46:12PM -0800, Bill Moseley (moseley at hank.org) wrote:
> Anyone have luck running games with Wine?  I've got a few games on
> CD-ROM that I'd like to let the kids use.  I can get wine to start up
> the game's splash screen (right in the center of my two xinerama
> monitors) and when I click play one monitor changes resolution and
> then nothing happens.  Well, once in a while my xserver will die.
> 
> I'm wondering if there's any tweaks to .wine/config that would help.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions?

There's a compatibility list of WINE applications, Google for it.  It
may address your questions.

I'm not sure how well supported ActiveX is under WINE, but my
understanding is that a lot of FPS games use this.

You're also generally best off installing the game under legacy MS
Windows, then accessing it through WINE.  While WINE allows you to run a
lot of apps, the installers frequently _not_ supported.  Bass ackwards
as that seems.


Peace.

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