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Silpheed2K
July 27th, 2008, 11:52 PM
If I want to run games that is... i have a windows partition would just tons of libraries sitting in System32... will those help Wine any?
and if so... how do I get wine to access those?
Just curious cause I really want to get game slike Dawn of War Soulstorm working on my GNU Linux
aoanla
July 28th, 2008, 05:48 AM
If I want to run games that is... i have a windows partition would just tons of libraries sitting in System32... will those help Wine any?
and if so... how do I get wine to access those?
Just curious cause I really want to get game slike Dawn of War Soulstorm working on my GNU Linux

Not really. Wine has its own implementation of DirectX libraries, and installing the "original" dlls can cause more problems than it might fix. Unless you really know what you're doing, I'd say it's not worth it.
gjoellee
July 28th, 2008, 05:50 AM
if you want to play games with WINE it should be something that supports OpenGl ex:
Counter Strike and WoW
aoanla
July 28th, 2008, 05:54 AM
if you want to play games with WINE it should be something that supports OpenGl ex:
Counter Strike and WoW

Not at all. Source engine games work fine in Wine, and they don't do native OpenGL.
Wine's DirectX implementation transparently maps Direct3D calls onto OpenGL calls, and does it pretty well (although DirectX 9 support is still a bit slow for some games, and DirectX 10 just doesn't work).