is the copy protect codebase that has been put forward by 3rd parties ...also there has been alot of movement within the base winehq team as far as implementing their own support for directx calls ....disk protect aside wine is getting to be on par with winex as far as gaming goes ....
(and under $10 a month aint that bad ......)
Cheers Dale. On 10/03/2004, at 11:24 PM, Paul Wilkins wrote:
Rowan Trau'e wrote:
Sorry about the confusion with my requests this morning. I am running Mandrake 9.1 Floppy: I just click on the desktop icon to access the floppy drive.
Wine: I just clicked on the downloaded file and let it install itself
automatically - should I have done something else ? I am using an rpm
called 20040213-mdk.i586.rpm that I took from Winehq.
I have no idea if the games that I am trying to play are supported or
not but I found out today that maybe I should be using Winex because the
games require directx to be installed.
This then is the stumbling block. Unless you're willing to pay lots of money for WineX, you won't have much luck with games that require DirectX. Unfortunately, I prefer to use Windows than to hand over money.
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I'm sadly disillusioned by a couple of distros that I've tried. It takes enormous effort to get some things working. The worst is when item X won't work and info saying "item X won't work" isn't around anywhere to be found.
Sometimes you can spend hours, perhaps days in an on and off fashion before you admit that it just won't want to work. In the end ther is a "it's more effort than it's worth" feeling that pervades each new experience. One that grows stronger with each knockdown. Perhaps I just don't have the right stuff. I'm saddened by it, for I was really looking forward to it.
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If you want to play 3D type games then look for ones that use OpenGL. That at least you can get working, assuming that you have a 3D card and that you are using the right drivers.
-- Paul Wilkins
