WINE - Work well for gaming?

[thekitteneater]

I'm thinking of taking the plunge from Windows to Linux, but I use my PC mostly for gaming.

Does WINE or fine? Will I notice a hit in performance?

[volcanomike]

Personally i would recommend if you do plan on taking the leap to the free world. I recommend Cedega... Monthly donation of $5 and it is flawless for me. Works great.

[jdhore]

yeah, Wine works, but it doesn't work great since not all games work with Wine and Wine isn't the greatest with DirectX...i agree with Mike...go with Cedega (hint: you can also find it on the torrents for free)

[thekitteneater]

Cool, thanks a bunch guys.

[toodamfast]

As a Gamer I will tell you the only way to be happy with linux is to duel boot. Anyone who says otherwise is full of shit.

yes you can play with cedega (i do subscribe) but there IS a hit in quality (I also use an ATI card) and some game dont work at all.

yes you can find games that will run in native linux (Wolfenstien et, tce, tons of quake 2 clones, tribes clones, ect) but you might have a hard time getting your clan to jump to a game that looks like it came out in 2001.

But if you are a "gamer" dont expect to get the latest and greatest games to run like they can in windows. Duel booting will let you spend your time gaming and not tring to figure out why your in game sound/team speak wont work at the same time or why your only getting 30 fps in Half life two and you know your $300 ATI card would push over 100 fps in windows.

With 320 gig harddrives selling for under $90, it's easy to have room for two operating systems.

[bird603568]

your getting crap because you have an ati. also doom3 is native and if im not mistaken so is farcry

[volcanomike]

Originally Posted by TooDamFast

As a Gamer I will tell you the only way to be happy with linux is to duel boot. Anyone who says otherwise is full of shit.

yes you can play with cedega (i do subscribe) but there IS a hit in quality (I also use an ATI card) and some game dont work at all.

yes you can find games that will run in native linux (Wolfenstien et, tce, tons of quake 2 clones, tribes clones, ect) but you might have a hard time getting your clan to jump to a game that looks like it came out in 2001.

But if you are a "gamer" dont expect to get the latest and greatest games to run like they can in windows. Duel booting will let you spend your time gaming and not tring to figure out why your in game sound/team speak wont work at the same time or why your only getting 30 fps in Half life two and you know your $300 ATI card would push over 100 fps in windows.

With 320 gig harddrives selling for under $90, it's easy to have room for two operating systems.

See the lovely thing is that if so many people use cedega and donate they vote on up coming features that can be added. So if a new game comes out everyone can vote and get it supported. Dual booting is for weinies and they dont deserve to use linux I have no problems running Half Life or any other game in Cedega with a resolution of 1024x768 at about 80 fps on linux with my cheap NVIDIA card. Then again i use a slim window manager and i know a thing or two about setting priorities.

[noonebutme]

I personally dislike Cedega. Ruined native mac gaming - if they can 'emulate' the needed stuff then theres no reason for developers to port it native and give the huge speed boos that way.

[minishark]

I also vote for dual boot. Even if the games you want happen to work under Cedega/Wine, it will be at a serious performance loss. And I know if you're a serious gamer you want the highest framerate you can get. Just suck it up and play the games on the OS they were written for. Then use Linux for everything else.

[astralsin]

Originally Posted by noonebutme

I personally dislike Cedega. Ruined native mac gaming - if they can 'emulate' the needed stuff then theres no reason for developers to port it native and give the huge speed boos that way.

if it already runs fine in cedega, why would developers port it? go donate $5 a month and give some love back to transgaming who is doing their best to bring gaming to you, no matter what the game companies think is 'sufficient market share'.