Win4lin will not allow you to run windows games since the games most probably use directX to talk to the video card in 3D. Win4lin does not support 3d rendering.
What you want instead is Cedega from TransGaming http://www.transgaming.com/ . This is basically a version of wine, the developers of which have negotiated with the gaming companies to make sure the copy protection and other propitiatory things work so you can run most windows games under Linux. You can see a list of all the games that work here [http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/]. They also have a nice GUI interface that allows you to install games and configure the gaming environment. I have found it works pretty well. It costs $5 US per month to get a subscription so you can download the latest deb's, rpm's or tgz's or alternatively you can get access to their CVS server for free and compile your own binaries however some copy protection stuff probably wont work. Remember you will of course need 3d video drivers installed and working. On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 11:03 +1200, Paul Swafford wrote: > Robert have you tried any of those games under wine? > > Ideally another 128MB RAM would be "nice" > > Regards > > Paul Swafford > > Robert Fisher wrote: > > I have just "rebuilt" a fairly new PC for a customer and then learnt that > > they > > had a PIII - 800Mhz machine with 128 Mb of RAM sitting in the garage doing > > nothing. > > > > I offered to load Mepis on it so they could let their young son use it > > without > > damaging their good machine. > > > > He was very impressed with what I showed him but then wondered about the > > Windows based games they already have. Would win4lin and Windows98 run OK > > inside Mepis on a machine with those specs. I have never tried win4lin, > > which > > is available for Mepis. Maybe I should just try it. > > -- Richard Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
