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hello all, i need a clarification on a aspect... to be very frank, i am very new to linux. installed it for 1st time last week. i have installed Linux Mint OS. it has wine 1.2.1 preinstalled. ( my desktop also has Windows 7 as 2nd OS) my Question: 1. should i have to install any supporting applications to make wine work better? 2. i am a game freak. i have installed certain games in my

More and more poor clueless users getting to nowhere installing that stuff according to some howtos. Who are writing those? And why are they directing people to install it in the first place? The only person I've found who created that howto everyone links to - Tom Wickline states EXPLICITLY THAT THIS IS FOR TESTING PURPOSES ONLY!!! AND NOT TO BE USED WITH ANY REAL LIFE APPLICATION! Are

I am trying to find a program that will let me run programs designed for earlier windows (95/98) on Vista 64 bit (specifically Lords of Magic, an old PC game - the patches that make the game playable will not install on a 64 bit Vista OS). I know this is a cross platform sort of program, and was wondering if any of you knew if it would work. Thanks for any help or insight.

What is the current status of Steam games in Wine? Some people claim same or better performance than Windows and other say its much worse. At least with TF2, the game goes from great performance with decent settings in Windows, to barely playable with all settings on low in Wine. Can Steam games run well in Wine without having a machine so powerful it can overcome any software problems? Is there a

Is there any chance to running new games under Wine (because I've seen some new videogames running in Youtube) and, what things can be made to try to get those games working. I don't know much about wine so I don't know how it works but, Colud we make some kind of guide about problems, solutions and wine moddings to encorauge users to get working new games?

Heya, I'm sorry for spamming these forums!! :P I'm trying out games on wine. I got to install Alien Versus Predator, the old Win95/98 version. It seems to run just fine except for the mouse. I can't do 360 degree turns. The mouse is also limited in the vertical axis. It feels like there, behind my screen, is a window in which my cursor-arrow moves. A window smaller than the screen

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

Hi! I've just installed FS2004. I am using version 0.9.54, as recommended in the AppDB. My Linux OS Is Debian Etch(4.0) With a fully capable processor(Games of such category run perfectly on Windows). Followed the instructions: Installed via the "WINXP" Mode, then switched to Windows 98. Here's the problem: The Splash screen is showing, then it disappears and these are the errors

Here is the situation. There are six different soccer games, developed by Konami, all straight ports from Playstation 2. These are the following: Pro Evolution Soccer 4 (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2750) (PES4) Winning Eleven 8 (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=5152) (american version of PES4) Pro Evolution Soccer 5

Background: Red Alert / Red Alert II / C&C / Tiberium Sun uses IPX for LAN play. According to AppDB, this works, at least for Red Alert II (Orginal RA is not on the first page of Google results...), but it requires Wine to be run as root. Since I do not have IPX installed and I'm not normally in a mood to recompile my kernel, and the Windows users that I want to play against do want to

Hi, I just downloaded Wine to try it out, and despite being a tinkerer with half a brain i cant figure out how to install windows games using it. I have looked online to no avail, the stuff i have read has not helped mostly because im trying to install a game from its DVD and Wine wont do it unless the EXE is given permission to install as a program and you cant edit files on the DVD as they are

Hai everyone, well once again, I need halp! A game recently came out, and like always, this game is not executable in a Mac. Anyway, I'm having major problems trying to run the game... If anyone out there is willing to help me please reply me! PS: The game is called Xen Online, http://xen.mayngames.com/main for more info. It's in closed beta ATM, so if you need the beta key, please

Hey Ive followed the instructions in the AppDB on how to setup team fortress 2, and after i did the preformence in menus improved, how ever i cannot still join any games. After loading completty finnished, just to send of into In-Game mode, it crashes. No error messages and steam freezes... I have Nvidia Geforce 9800GT with driver 190.32 and Wine 1.1.28 (1.1.29 messes up my steam menus) I allso

How can I download games from the AppDB? Let's say I am trying to get Combat Arms. I clicked the game and I see different versions. And when I click a version of Combat Arms, how do i download it? Thanks, im new to this :D

Here is a list of games that work for me! :) Mass Effect 3- Perfectly Halo- Perfectly Left 4 Dead- Perfectly Left 4 Dead 2- Perfectly Dead Rising- Perfectly Dead Rising 2/OTC- Perfectly Sonic Generations- No sound, other than that perfect. Blood Rayne 1- Perfectly BloodRayne 2- Perfectly on the default resolution, any other that the text isn't displayed correctly Terminator: Salvation:

I'm very new to wine, so please excuse my noobness. I'm going to be teaching a course on Game Design for non-programmers in the fall. The school is an all-mac operation, but I'd like to use YoYo Game's Gamemaker to teach the course. YoYo has a mac version in beta, but it is unclear if it will reach release in time for my class to begin. I know that the current version of

Hello everyone! I've spent the last couple of months working on a wiki that contains what the thread title says: a list of Steam games that are either native to GNU/Linux or are runnable in Wine, categorized by their AppDB rankings. A bunch of people at the Steam forums have been working on it, but it looks like a lot of people here use Steam to get their games, so it seemed to make sense to

Hi, I need help with installing different apps and games. Below is a list of games and apps that I installed or want to install and there status on my netbook. MY COMPUTER INFO Acer Aspire One 120GB Hard Drive, 1GB ram, Atom Prossesor, Built-in wifi, etc. Oprating System On It Now= Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 Alpha 2 with Netbook Remix and Ubuntu Studio add-ons Green= works great!, Yellow=

Hi, After a devastating viral attack on in XP, I've moved to Ununtu- I love it. I also love Civilization 4, and I'm having a hard time getting it to run. 1. I can't get the installers to run. If I run setup.exe, I am allowed to choose my install language whereupon I recieve this error: Error Code: -5005 : 0x8007000d Error Information: >Kernel\KernelMedia.cpp (95)

Hey guys. I'm very new to Wine. Very. I've pretty much just installed it. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and upon seeing many videos on Youtube such as "Team Fortress 2 On Wine!", seeing it run flawlessly, and I thought I'd give it a go. Now, I'm using the Dell Studio 1555, which has pretty awful graphics. It is a laptop after all. I managed however, with a few mods I could