Hum, I see. But it seems that it's just like the difference between steam games running on win or on mac. They are even made for that specific platform, yet the development target remains windows.
Do you think ubuntu has the best intel support? You ever tried fedora? On 5 Jan, 19:56, Espionage724 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
