yea Wine lets me play most of my games, but some games have corruption (Alien Swarm, corrupted text) or just run a bit too slow for me (WoW)
If I had the hardware games would probably run at acceptable FPS On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:53 PM, tribaljet <[email protected]> wrote: > LOL, so that's what GUM stands for :)) > > Hum, after reading a bit, I got what wine stands for. I remember the > performance being quite slower back in the day, but I assume that > given the nature of wine, that it improved recently. Have you been > able to play games with it? > > Don't forget that it's only antivirus, you'll still need a firewall. > That one I told you is free is not bad, just a bit annoying :) > > On 5 Jan, 19:49, Espionage724 <[email protected]> wrote: >> well thats what wine could stand for haha, but I guess it runs windows >> libraries and dll's natively, idk though. >> >> Hmm and I never heard of avira, i might go check it out. >> >> And GUM was some term MAD_BEAST used recently to decribe the "youtube" >> noobs haha "Gay Ugly Motherfu..." >> >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:45 PM, tribaljet <[email protected]> wrote: >> > It's not? Sorry, I thought it was. Can you explain it a bit then man, >> > please? >> >> > I used avast in the past, and it's not bad, just not effective enough >> > and let through too much things. There aren't many free good options, >> > though you could try avira, it's miles ahead of avast, and you can >> > combine it with comodo firewall, both free. And what exactly is GUM?? >> > *scratches head* >> >> > On 5 Jan, 19:42, Espionage724 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Wine Is Not an Emulator :p >> >> >> Also my perfered choices for security on windows were avast and MSE >> >> (both being free and all), trying to find a non-legit copy of an >> >> antivirus didnt go too well for me (didn't know which ones to trust or >> >> not cuz you got people who actually look out for others, then you got >> >> GUM's (lawl) who say everything is a virus :p) >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:37 PM, tribaljet <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Namige, learning a bit about Linux wouldn't do any harm at all. If >> >> > what you want is just browsing and productivity apps like office, then >> >> > Linux would work just fine, having much less virus made for that OS. >> >> > Still, you'll get a better overall experience with Windows 7 due to >> >> > the simple fact that you also have a great internet experience, the >> >> > best productivity suite (ms office), and can play games without being >> >> > handicapped because of emulators (like wine). The only bad thing about >> >> > windows imho is the fact that there are so many virus made for that >> >> > platform, which force us to use security software. >> >> >> > So what exactly do you want to do with that machine of yours? >> >> >> > On 5 Jan, 18:02, Namige <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Which is a better OS for general usage such as web browsing? Linux or >> >> >> Windows 7. >> >> >> >> On Jan 5, 5:58 pm, Namige <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > @Mad Beast >> >> >> >> > You are running it in directx 9, I had the same problem until I ran >> >> >> > it >> >> >> > in directx 8.1 >> >> >> >> > -dxlevel 81 is the command line >> >> >> >> > On Jan 4, 9:01 pm, MAD_BEAST <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > > I downloaded COUNTER SRTIKE SOURCE ORANGEBOX >> >> >> >> > > i runs very well but i had to unistall it cause it gave me those >> >> >> > > weird >> >> >> > > lines BIG lines of colors across the screen they appeared and >> >> >> > > disappeared sometimes... i just couldnt make it if someone has a >> >> >> > > fix >> >> >> > > for that pls share i added the command lines to the target and >> >> >> > > others >> >> >> > > by console but nothing worked >> >> >> > -- >> >> > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS >> >> > -- >> > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS >> >> > > -- > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
