How does Wine work exactly - will I fx be able to play Portal 2 as soon as it's released. And does it make a difference whether I use steam to lauch a game or just uses the game's own software?
Hard to say. It depends on the game. In general, it helps if beta testers for the game post bug reports.
RasBas wrote:> How does Wine work exactly - will I fx be able to play Portal 2 as soon as it's released. > > And does it make a difference whether I use steam to lauch a game or just uses the game's own software?Portal 2; probably, as it is based on the Steam engine, which already works in Wine. If it doesn't work, it would probably be supported soon enough. But as already mentioned, it depends on the game, and whether it requires functions that Wine does or does not have implemented. A lot of newly released simpler games work, though, and so do new games based on existing, working game engines.
RasBas wrote:> Well my pc is quite good - not awesome, though. > > I was broke when I bought it, and to save money I was stupid enough to save them on the hard drive, so I only have 250 GB on it. > > A partition may be the option, but I was hoping I cut go 100 % Ubuntu. > But I wasn't expecting a lowsier perfomance on games? I was expecting work/work with bugs/doesn't work?DirectX-based Windows games will run 1.5x slower in the best case scenario, because Wine has to translate all DirectX calls to OpenGL ones. OpenGL games themselves will likely run pretty well.