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It's also a godsend for gaming on Linux. As long as you take a peek at the wine appdb page for the game you're trying to run beforehand, they usually work great
by duozerk 10y ago
It's also a godsend for gaming on Linux. As long as you take a peek at the wine appdb page for the game you're trying to run beforehand, they usually work great and with pretty good performances.
Though granted the games I play tend not to be cutting edge (but for example, Skyrim with a large texture pack and a full, heavy mod conversion such as Enderal works perfectly and with CSMT, with performances roughly equal to Windows).
- bigbugbag 10y ago> It's also a godsend for windows gaming on Linux here FTFY.
- Skunkleton 10y agoAre you implying that having access to Windows games on Linux does not improve gaming on Linux?
- duozerk 10y agoI believe he's saying that gaming on Linux today goes far beyond Wine, given numerous high profile games have been ported to Linux recently (in a large part thanks to Unity and Valve's Steam OS push).
- ldev 10y agoNot really far if you count games that sell 1 million+ copies. Right now I'm playing Titanfall 2, Battlefield 1, Forza Horizon 3 and Resident Evil 7. And Hearthstone. Haven't seen a game that I would enjoy released on linux in ages. Even new Doom didn't get a Linux release, id software gave up.
- versteegen 10y agoI believe they skipped Linux because Doom uses some Windows-specific DRM. Even the demo is protected by DRM, and it won't work under wine for that reason. So they lost my purchase.
- SSLy 10y agodenuvo obfuscation engine has recently been removed from Doom.
- sirtaj 10y agoI get the impression they never had much interest in Linux ports in the first place, it was mostly just Carmack's interest in the platform that drove it. But now his attention is elsewhere, so they don't have to bother any more.
- duozerk 10y agoIndeed; thanks. In my defense, there was a time where both of those roughly meant the same thing ;-)
- djsumdog 10y agoI'm pretty amazing at the Humble Bundle (DRM-free) and Steam selections for Linux; not just independent titles but some larger ones too. We've come a long way since Loki ports.
- vacri 10y agoHumbleBundle games for linux have a history of being... suboptimal. Maybe they've improved over the past year, but HB doesn't really have a good method for fixing bugs in releases (unlike Steam).
- jhasse 10y agoKeep in mind that some of them are using libwine ;)
- brak1 10y agoI've bought some games (older games from years ago) on gog.com for os x, they were always just running wine
- roblabla 10y agoIt doesn't really matter if they are though. It means we get "official support" - if something is broken, they are able (and I daresay, maybe even willing !) to look into it.
- baldfat 10y agoAnd DOS-Box. GOG.com Masters of Orion 2 and many older games work great on it.