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What's really sad I have absolutely 100% success rate with playing XP-era games on Linux through PlayOnLinux. At least with my library of games. I am boggled ho
by nixass 3y ago
What's really sad I have absolutely 100% success rate with playing XP-era games on Linux through PlayOnLinux. At least with my library of games.
I am boggled how Microsoft's back compatibility is so bad
- Osiris 3y agoBad? Microsoft had a long history of maintaining backwards compatibility. I wrote a program for Windows XP that still runs unmodified in Windows 11.
- pjmlp 3y agoOld Microsoft yes, the new generation that got on board during the Windows 8 days not so much. There is hardly anything backwards compatible during the multiple WinRT reboots that have happened since then.
- RobotToaster 3y agoDrivers will literally stop working between different "feature updates" of windows 10.
- zamadatix 3y agoKernel side backwards compatibility is a different story, and not just on Windows. Here we are talking about programs (userspace side).
- prmoustache 3y agoWould these games refuse to run on Windows 10 and 11? Have you tried them before making that statement? Note: I am a linux user, I am just surprised that those games would work on linux but not on windows.
- AshamedCaptain 3y agoPeople literally have to use Wine DX libraries in order to make some of these games work on Windows 10 -- so yes, there are some 9x era Windows games which work better under Linux than under Windows.
- nixass 3y agoSome would refuse to run even if in "compatibility mode". You need to download patches, community made fixes and even then you'd be lucky if game if runs past splash screen. Linux beats it by large in same comparison
- prmoustache 3y agoIsn't that because game developers reverted to shitty non standard and undocumented solutions to prevent people from using pirated copies? I remember back in the days refusing to buy games because it was reported they were installing silently some weird software drivers that looked more like malware than real software.
- ceving 3y agoI tried the Blizzard launcher several times with Wine, but almost no success. Qemu with GPU pass-through works much better for me. I use a decommissioned GPU from my son for Diablo 2R. IO is a bit slower, because the IOMMU groups of my Asus board prevent SSD pass-through of the second SSD. The first SSD is in its own IOMMU group, but the second is in the same group as the network, which I need for Debian.