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Wine is always a viable option, especially for older games. With DirectX 11 support coming later this year, almost every Windoze only game should hopefully work

by Xylemon 11y ago

Wine is always a viable option, especially for older games. With DirectX 11 support coming later this year, almost every Windoze only game should hopefully work.

merb 11y ago
it's still slower mostly. Mostly since they don't have any specification at all.
- anonbanker 11y ago
  Parent's post has so many qualifiers, it says nothing at all. I do not see a performance penalty at all with WINE. Most games that work play at speeds matching or better than windows. WoW is usually a big example of that, as are emulators.
  - gr3yh47 11y ago
    WoW and emulators are both fairly trivial for a modern system to run well. There is definitely a significant performance hit if you are running something in WINE that nearly maxes your performance in windows
    - anonbanker 11y ago
      someone's never used Higan before. I've made Stunt Race FX and Yoshi's Island peg a Core i7. Running Tekken 4 on MAME is just as intensive. Running either in wine is a fine benchmark on performance.
- yellowapple 11y ago
  It is? I've personally seen better performance with Wine + Linux than with Windows. Now, this isn't to say that Wine is totally up to par with Windows in terms of compatibility, but performance hasn't been a significant issue for quite some time.
  - ionised 11y ago
    I searched for a few games I'm playing now and have played recently and out of 10 there were 4 that had no entry on the WINE database. This might be enough of a barrier to stop me using it right now.
    - yellowapple 11y ago
      That happens, particularly on really new (or really obscure) software. Really, though, that ought to be an encouragement; sure, you're left in the dark, but it means that those games could use some test coverage. Your contributions to the AppDB could help quite a few others.
ionised 11y ago
What about the games that have no entry in the WINE database? Are they just untested or do they not work at all?

by Xylemon 11y ago

Wine is always a viable option, especially for older games. With DirectX 11 support coming later this year, almost every Windoze only game should hopefully work.

merb 11y ago

it's still slower mostly. Mostly since they don't have any specification at all.

anonbanker 11y ago
Parent's post has so many qualifiers, it says nothing at all. I do not see a performance penalty at all with WINE. Most games that work play at speeds matching or better than windows. WoW is usually a big example of that, as are emulators.
- gr3yh47 11y ago
  WoW and emulators are both fairly trivial for a modern system to run well. There is definitely a significant performance hit if you are running something in WINE that nearly maxes your performance in windows
  - anonbanker 11y ago
    someone's never used Higan before. I've made Stunt Race FX and Yoshi's Island peg a Core i7. Running Tekken 4 on MAME is just as intensive. Running either in wine is a fine benchmark on performance.
yellowapple 11y ago
It is? I've personally seen better performance with Wine + Linux than with Windows. Now, this isn't to say that Wine is totally up to par with Windows in terms of compatibility, but performance hasn't been a significant issue for quite some time.
- ionised 11y ago
  I searched for a few games I'm playing now and have played recently and out of 10 there were 4 that had no entry on the WINE database. This might be enough of a barrier to stop me using it right now.
  - yellowapple 11y ago
    That happens, particularly on really new (or really obscure) software. Really, though, that ought to be an encouragement; sure, you're left in the dark, but it means that those games could use some test coverage. Your contributions to the AppDB could help quite a few others.

ionised 11y ago

What about the games that have no entry in the WINE database? Are they just untested or do they not work at all?