On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:58 AM, DANIEL DAVID EGLI <[email protected]> wrote: > How well would the > latest sock version of Wine handle something like Spore, Oblivion, Diablo > III, BioShock, Deus Ex (any of them) or Skyrim, or even a simple, non-DX > game like one of the Virtual Villager games from Last Day at Work (ldw.com)?
Diablo 3 works perfectly for me. I can't speak specifically for the rest in your list, but I've had roughly an 80% success rate with running Windows games under Wine -- using PlayOnLinux. Typically, the more popular the game, the better your chance is of being able to run it (easily). PlayOnLinux is great since it uses install scripts to create a separate Wine prefix (complete with the version of Wine that's known to work well with the specific game), installs and configures any additional libraries that are needed, and gives you a single place to launch all Wine games from. You can see a list of games that POL has install scripts for here: http://www.playonlinux.com/en/supported_apps.html And definitely look at the Wine App DB for more info. > Has anyone tried using the Windows version of > Steam under any version of Wine? Steam for Windows works really well under Wine, although you need to run it with the "-no-dwrite" flag in order to have visible text... which is helpful. I've used it to install and play: Death Rally, Dota 2, Portal 1 and 2, Counter-strike: Global Offensive, and a few others, and have had very few hiccups. > *Also, speaking of gaming, any one know how many monitors can be connected > to a Linux machine running Nvidia's closed-source X driver and multiple > video cards? I know that your question is regarding multiple cards in SLI AND multiple monitors, but I wanted to let you know that I'm running three monitors on one GTX 670 (4GB) with no problems. I'm curious about the SLI + multiple monitor possibility though, too. So, let me know if you find out either way. Matt /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
