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Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by gpderetta »

problems wrote: post #69
jhbadger wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And even games not all that old. I'm currently replaying Fallout 3 (from 2008) just fine under Wine. It really is amazingly smooth -- almost as if it were a native game.

2008 is literally 9 years old, all the current day titles I look up are basically rated "Garbage". I think this will improve though as the move to Vulcan and DX12 should make porting easier as the APIs are more similar I believe. The most recent big name thing I could find was WoW - which, while originally from 2003(?) is actively updated and has had some pretty substantial graphical improvements in more recent expan…

I'm running Skyrim (2011) flawlessly under wine (well as flawlessly as it run in windows at least), including expansions and mods.

The only issue is that on exit to desktop the game hangs and needs to be manually killed.

The new DX11-only re-release doesn't work though.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by coldpie »

rijoja wrote: post #26

This brings me back to the early days of my Linux usage. I've always been fascinated by this project. My very nerdy dream has always been to try to contribute to it somehow. How hard is it to get in to the community?

We try to be friendly, but frankly we're kind of a quiet and heads-down bunch. Please don't take it the wrong way :)

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by nix0n »

Cacti wrote: post #93

What is the technical use case for Wine these days? Are we basically talking running certain Windows applications on Linux, at reasonable framerates, using hardware that doesn't support full virtualization pass-through? In other words, if you've got virtualization support, and pcie pass-through support, why not just run this stuff through a Windows VM?

Wine's support for 16-bit Windows applications is actually better than in Windows 10.

If I try to start up a VM with XP I've got to worry about XP's security situation.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by problems »

bigbugbag wrote: post #101
problems wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2008 is literally 9 years old, all the current day titles I look up are basically rated "Garbage". I think this will improve though as the move to Vulcan and DX12 should make porting easier as the APIs are more similar I believe. The most recent big name thing I could find was WoW - which, while originally from 2003(?) is actively updated and has had some pretty substantial graphical improvements in more recent expan…

How could miss the top 10 platinum ? it is literally on the landing page of the Wine applications database[1]. It has left 4 dead, Team Fortress 2, Civilization 4, etc. More recent than World of Warcraft which is only rated gold. Then the Gold list has starcraft 2 (Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm, and Legacy of the Void), the sims 3, Final Fantasy XIV, Fallout 3,... Though none of these are current day, they are…

Yeah, those games are about as old or older than FO3.

WoW at least has had a recent update (including a basically total graphics engine rewrite last year, switching to a deferred pipeline, etc) and still runs well - I'd call it more recent, but maybe that's just me.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by BeetleB »

bandrami wrote: post #11

Cool. I have to admit I haven't thought about Wine in a while because I can't think of any software I use that doesn't have a Linux version. What are people's use-cases nowadays?

I rarely use Wine. But people use it for:

- Photoshop

- Accessing their DRM protected ebooks

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by djsumdog »

bigbugbag wrote: post #83
duozerk wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also a godsend for gaming on Linux. As long as you take a peek at the wine appdb page for the game you're trying to run beforehand, they usually work great and with pretty good performances. Though granted the games I play tend not to be cutting edge (but for example, Skyrim with a large texture pack and a full, heavy mod conversion such as Enderal works perfectly and with CSMT, with performances roughly equal t…

> It's also a godsend for windows gaming on Linux here FTFY.

I'm pretty amazing at the Humble Bundle (DRM-free) and Steam selections for Linux; not just independent titles but some larger ones too.

We've come a long way since Loki ports.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by andersonmvd »

Wine saved my day to play my (Steam) games on Linux. It's not the same performance on Windows and there are many opportunities to improve, but just being able to play it's amazing.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by ravenstine »

acd wrote: post #92

Would Microsoft sell Winelibs or Windows for Linux now that there are Linux for Windows?

That's actually a pretty neat idea. I'd much rather be running Windows on Linux than Linux on Windows. Too bad they'll never do it.
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