Possible?

[Poee]

Is it possible to play Window's games in Ubuntu without dual-booting? I would love to run World of Warcraft on pure Ubuntu instead of dual-booting...

[yabbadabbadont]

Please search before posting. :D

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=312482&highlight=howto+wow+wine

[Poee]

I know i'm sorry, but it didn't answer my question? Do I need Windows dual booted?

[yabbadabbadont]

There hasn't been enough time for you to have even skimmed through that thread. The title of the thread alone should answer your question. :roll:

[hikaricore]

There hasn't been enough time for you to have even skimmed through that thread. The title of the thread alone should answer your question. :roll:

I guess big words were too much for them to understand?

So I'll make it really clear.

If you only want to play WoW you DO NOT need to dual boot!
This can and is being done 100% in linux.

Playing other games may vary in linux, check here for your games: http://appdb.winehq.org

And be sure to read the damn pages.

[Nythain]

wow so much for that great user comunity there...

gaming on linux it sketchy at best... through the use of an up to date and patch piece of software called Wine yes World of Warcraft is possible. Other games are possible too through wine, but there will usually be small glitches or problems

another alternative wich is JUST as if not MORE glichy/buggy is a piece of commercial software offered by Transgaming called Cedega... personally i LOVE cedega, though others would argue

neither one of those programs relies dual booting windows or having a windows install on your machine at all

i guess a third option would be a vmware install of windows inside of linux, but im not to sure how well games work within vmware so no help there

[Cappy]

I'm pretty sure the free vmware we have doesn't support 3D acceleration. WINE is the best choice =)

[hikaricore]

wow so much for that great user comunity there...

One can only stand lazy people not bothering to even read the forums so many times when they're asking for help. Sometimes I get a little carried away, but I help as much as I can when someone actually wants to be helped, not so much when someone wants everything done for them.