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9/17/2009 10:00:15 AM EDT
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9/17/2009 10:35:47 AM EDT
[#1]
nah, I am more of a scotch kinda guy.
9/17/2009 12:42:23 PM EDT
[#2]
Wine doesn't really do games that well.

There is a non-free project called Cedega that is more geared towards games, but it's not perfect and usually lacking support for new games by a few months.

Also, remember that DirectX is a windows only thing, and Cedega tries to turn the DirectX calls into OpenGL, so a lot of the time, the game just doesn't look the same.  Sometimes sprites are much larger than they should be, missing textures, etc.

And I didn't have much luck with punkbuster working on online play.  It kept kicking me because it could detect that I wasn't running windows.

Here's the link to Cedega.  They should have some information on what games it can play on that website if you're still interested.
9/17/2009 1:43:48 PM EDT
[#3]
For gaming, windows is king.


There are some things you can try but like the above poster said, there are issues with newer games.



Upgrade to windows 7 if you really hate Vista.  You may not like windows 7 either but it's worth a try.
9/18/2009 7:06:31 PM EDT
[#4]
I use Wine here and there for assorted apps.  However, I've never used it for games.  I use game consoles for games.
9/20/2009 5:56:13 AM EDT
[#5]
I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 and wine. So far I've run IL2 , Steam with Halflife , Halflife 2 , and a few others installed via steam and they work just as well as on windows. I've installed Q4 and Doom 3 using id's linux installer and they run fine.
9/20/2009 6:44:48 AM EDT
[#6]
If you don't have an aversion to paid for software you can look at CrossOver Office/Games. It works really well with most of the stuff I played with on Linux a while back.