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Hi, I am apprehensive about buying the Windows 7 for my new desktop PC ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig_b41uOQCg ) and pay more than 100 euros for it. I don't have enough money before I get the student loans after New Year 2012, and I was wondering if I could get Linux somewhere today or before Christmas holidays. Before I decide, tell me, can I play any Win7 game I like on Linux, by

That's what I'm going to do, after purging all the current nvidia stuff frommy system. The second thing I'm going to do is download, build and install the latest decent version of Wine. Thanks for all your advice. It's been really helpful. --------- One more question. What with OpenGL support getting dropped from WoW, I was wondering if it was worth trying to use DirectX under

Tron 2.0 starts up, offers the init menu, and works fine until you try and actually start the game. At that point, it goes blank for about 5 seconds and then says "To play tron 2.0, you need DirectX 9.0a and a supported video card with hardware TnL." If you go to the 'display' menu it says that the DX9 renderer is selected, but has nothing listed for resolutions or displays. Is

Hello everyone, I'm new here and I need a little bit of help. I'm running WINE 0.9.59 on Ubuntu 7.04 For starters I'm trying to get steam games to work on wine. I can get steam installed, and I log in fine. but when I go to launch a game it says "the latest version of Microsoft DirectX is needed to play this game" So I look around the internet on how to installed dx on

What are the minimum DLLs or components required for a win application to have a chance to work? The software I am installing is not a game so I dont need games related dlls or components. Tks for any advice

Hi, From the release notes i can read : "Note that the minimum RAM required to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.92 has been raised to 1GB; the recommended RAM is 2GB. If a machine has less than 1GB RAM, the installation process may hang." Is it a joke/mistake ? :-O 1GB !!! I tested installation process with 256M / Celeron 600, seems to work ...) -- Martin

I have Civ4 BTS 3.17 installed and running on Ubuntu 8.10 using Wine 1.1.13. The game seems to be OK but I have been playing the Fall from Heaven 2 mod recently and the data for the Great Library used within the game is corrupted (sages being given ridiculously large espionage bonuses). The xml files on disk are fine and there is no problem when running the same mod on Windows. I am using the

it was working fine for ubuntu 9.10 but it crapped out on me for 10.04. now i can't even play my games that are even designed got ubuntu. please help

Hello again. Today I got following questions: 1.Which version of OpenGL is wine written in? 3.1? 3.0? 2.1? 2.0? Lower maybe? 2.Is wine using custom OpenGL extensions? From which vendors (NVIDIA I guess, ATI, S3, INTEL or others as well?)? 3.What is the minimum OpenGL version to run DX2/3/6/7,DX8,DX8.1 and DX9.0 apps? (I guess for OpenGL apps it doesn't really matter right? You are just

I know that in uBuntu, you must use wine to play Windows game, and the wine makes the performance drop, well at least that is what i know, maybe i am wrong and i also seen lots of people with monster PC rig using uBuntu, and many games works just fine so here's a question to all those uBuntu gamer out there that have been successfully play a game with high settings and without a problem in

The game isn't out for a few days yet, but people are salivating, see http://forums.macnn.com/77/gaming/422760/somebody-help-civ-5-in-crossover/

Hey everyone, I'm trying to compile a document to send out to our customers that outlines the minimum and recommended requirements to run C4, C5, and C6. Does anyone know the particulars? When we order systems, it's usually Pentium Dual Core CPU, 120GB+ Hard drive, 2GB Ram. I need the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM requirements to install and run any of the aforementioned flavors as a

Hi Version 4.0.0alpha18-GIT-bfc7481 We are having problems in keeping this build up. samba -i is the only way we can keep samba up. samba and samba -i -M single fail under load e.g. when 2 clients log in at the same time. The samba processes are not killed. Our test resources are limited. Are there any minimum requirements? Thanks Steve

Hi Folks, I have been using Wine for some time now to run Team Fortress 2 (and other HL2 based games) on my Ubuntu system. I was previously running Ubuntu 7.10 with an Athlon64 3800+, a 7600GT (256MB of RAM), and 2GB of DDR2 333MHz. Recently I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 (i386) with an AthlonX2 64 6000+, an 8800GT (1GB of RAM) and 4GB of DDR 800MHz. I was really hoping for a nice performance bump

Hi, I was wondering if the minimum system requirements are determined for the FLAC decoder? I ask this because I have some old computers and also a "older" Pocket PC, so I was wondering how many MB RAM and Mhz CPU speed is needed to be able to decode FLAC files without any problems. thx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi, i have a very crazy issue: Im connecting with a NX Client to a XFCE Desktop. There is Wine, some Fonts and the Gecko Engine installed. The Installation and Update of Steam was very good, but after the Update was finished, i only see a Ghost Window of Steam (even when i kill it and start it again): [Image: http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/5858/xfcesteamghost.png ] I also tried a reinstall

wine dxdiag.exe spews a few fixme messages (Related to ALSA drivers) and then exits. No Window, no error messages. Till now, this wasn't a problem (several games ran fine) but when I tried installing a legacy game (Grand Prix World by Microprose), it could not detect my graphics card. Tried DxDiag but it isnt working. Any help will be much appreciated, thanks.

Assuming Linux as the operating system, what would be the minimum processor/ram requirements to decode ogg vorbis files? I'm looking at building a vorbis player for my car, but I need to know what speed and how much ram I'll need. Thanks for the help. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list,

Hi, I often have to deal with relatively obsolete hardware in schools, public libraries, small town halls, etc. I still have a handful of CentOS 5.x installations around for these, but I wonder what CentOS 6.x desktop specs are, e. g. the minimum requirements (in terms of CPU and RAM) to reasonably run it. Will a battered first-generation P-IV with 512 MB RAM be sufficient? How much RAM does

Hey, Ive just replaced Windows 7 on my laptop with Ubuntu Natty. I'm an experienced computer user with more than half a brain so i am usually good at getting things to work but I absolutely cannot figure out how to install a game Ive downloaded so could someone talk me through it please. Mastering this game will lead on to others. I have downloaded Lords of the Realm II in ISO format. I