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 using Wine, PlayOnLinux, Crossovergames or Cedega? I am a PC gamer, I want to have maximum performance on SLI GTX 580 graphics cards, the bespoke Corsair Dominator 2000 Mhz and the fastest SDD on the market, OCZ IBIS 160 Gb and Ivy Bridge processor. I don't want any compromises in terms of what games I can play, but I can stretch about the top FPS. I can cope with having to learn command prompt. I just want compatibility. I have Steam on my EEE PC and I want to run those games on my new, faster desktop PC, including Minecraft, Sanctum, Civ4, Crysis2, Battlefield2, any future maximum requirement game, the astronomy program Celestia, Google Earth with the graphics cards. I want to use Linux exactly for the same things as I'm using my Windows, if not exactly the same way. I am ready to give up Win, as I've wanted to do since the 1990's. Just as long as you tell me, hard, cold and honest truth, weather Linux can run the same software as Win. I don't want any wishful thinking about tinkering with Linux in the gaming world, open-source games unheardof in Windows or Steam and the possible future. Is it possible now? Regards, Teemu, Finland.
On 12/22/2011 1:59 AM, teemumilto wrote:> Before I decide, tell me, can I play any Win7 game I like on Linux, by using WineNo, wine will not play games with certain type of DRM. Beyond that you will have to put time and effort into searching for fixs and workarounds to each game individually if you run into trouble trying to play it through wine. People are willing to help with that but it will take work on your part as well. The wine appdb has info on many games and you should search for the games you want to play there and see what is listed for how well they work and how much goes into setting them up. ? I am a PC gamer, I want to have maximum performance on SLI GTX 580 graphics cards You will not have this through wine. Wine does only DirectX9 graphics at this time. Any games that use DX10 or 11 will not have those graphics options and if the game requires either 10 or 11 it simply will not work. Even with DX9 you may not see the same framerates you do in windows but that will vary greatly depending on the game. Again, you can check the appdb ahead of time for more information on that per game.
Understood. DRM means Digital Rights Management. And a good closing point about the DX9 on Wine. Most forums are full of subjective opinions about hardcore gaming on Linux, but that was critical. But I thought Wine was OpenGL and is compatable to directx in general? Wine has never been a directx9 operating system. Semantics aside, if the comparable graphics level and compatability on Wine is DX9, and Steam's Sanctum with DX10 won't work, then it is too much to ask. I have to wait for the holidays and buy a fucking Win7. Clonezilla didn't work on my EEE PC either.