Comments on: 4 Ways To Play Windows Game On Linux

By: Zeke Krahlin

Zeke Krahlin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:30:39 +0000

I’m a Linux quasi-newbie, just learning about the magic of WINE. Found this page, which may be helpful to others:

http://www.smokinglinux.com/gaming/play-your-windows-games-with-wine-and-directx

By: riot

riot — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:55:07 +0000

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>>@Shanda: sad to say, Sims 2 is too heavy on DirectX and Wine have no support for it >>now. Heard that Cedega has some association with EA over this, but no news as of yet.

I believe it is the copy protection keeping it from running under wine. While DirectX is not perfect in Wine you are more likly to see issues cause by copy protection. This is why most games need a No-CD/DVD patch to run in wine. There is such a patch for Sims 2 but it is not 100% working, and apparently fails completely under Wine.

on another note. Sims 3 plays perfectly in Wine.

By: Jalada

Jalada — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:19:15 +0000

As Oli says, there is essentially one choice, and it’s WINE. The other choices are just frontends for WINE. Nevertheless, a useful list.

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:50:24 +0000

Playdeb: http://www.playdeb.net/

By: JamesG

JamesG — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:52:11 +0000

You could always go with adding virtualbox in there.
If I remember correctly, you can boot to your windows partition from virtualbox so you don’t need to leave the linux os.
Because, yeah those are all, wine, wine, wine, and wine again. Just renamed and beefed in certain areas.

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By: Daeng Bo

Daeng Bo — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:12:28 +0000

Baynard,
WoW works, too.

By: Baynard

Baynard — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:41:17 +0000

It’s too bad Diablo II is about six years past its prime.

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By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:59:17 +0000

@Shanda: sad to say, Sims 2 is too heavy on DirectX and Wine have no support for it now. Heard that Cedega has some association with EA over this, but no news as of yet.

@blarg: Cool! Crossover Games has really put in great effort to make it works.

By: blarg

blarg — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:51:50 +0000

Crossover Games is very good, in that it focuses support on the very popular ones. You can vote and donate money to decide which games or applications should be worked on. It also sets up different versions of wine for each games, in seperate ‘bottles’, which means you can get a game that only works on 9.x to work with a game that only works on 1.12 or something like that. I myself play TF2 and GuildWars, steam is getting more attention and will be updated sooner then via Wine to work at 100%, and GW only runs for me perfectly through Cxgames.

Also, if you become an advocate (which is really easy), its free, and you can use the trial to see if your programs run!

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By: Shanda

Shanda — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:54:32 +0000

Now if any one of these could handle Sims2, I’d completely delete my Windows partition. Alas.

By: Daeng Bo

Daeng Bo — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:38:39 +0000

Games that work natively or in vanilla Wine with no configuration:
http://games.ibeentoubuntu.com/

By: Oli

Oli — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:03:40 +0000

Sorry so the choice is really: Wine, Wine, Wine and Wine… Cedega is technically a fork but any worthwhile change is adopted upstream anyway.

PlayOnLinux and Crossover Games are too limited in their scope. I had to laugh when you said corssover works with “more than a hundred Windows games”. Considering there are tens of thousands, trying to get away with 100 doesn’t cut it for most people.

The performance on Cedega and Crossover is also slightly dodgy. In most things they actually come in slower than Wine. Not sure why, but I’d imagine it’s something to do with Wine being the bleeding-edge code repo.

If you want to run games on Linux you need two things: Wine and AppDB. Fin.

By: Todd Partridge

Todd Partridge — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:26:09 +0000

Dam, four choices, I hadn’t known. Wine has already run pretty good for me for games that are several years old (one reason, I never bothered with cedega). I really like the idea of cross-over office but I haven’t heard of any ports made yet (been a few months since I last took a look). Getting a few big titles through cross-over office and the reputation of linux to radically change.