I tried Wine once but couldn't get it to run anything, as some of you may have read on other topics I'm setting up a desktop to be a Linux workstation. But I was thinking I might want to run some PC games on this desktop. What do you recommend?

I would recommend running a dual boot system. Unfourtonatly, that probally wasn't too helpful. The thing is that with games, you probally won't get good preformance with an emulator. (although I did see somebody who had a linux box emulating windows, emulating apple, it lagged like crazy, but it was awsome)

You may want to get a Cedega subscription from Transgaming, they developed a Windows compatibility layer for Linux from Wine.

The problem running games on pure Wine is that it's DirectX implementation is poor.

http://www.transgaming.com

xboxrulz

I don't know how long it's been since you've run Wine, but it's been updated a lot recently. They have a list of games it can successfully (supposedly) play, including games based on the Quake engine such as Jedi Knight II. However, I personally haven't tried any of these. If you haven't tried Wine in a while, see if it lists your games, and if it does, give it a shot. The more tests they have, especially with bugs reported, the more likely they ill be to eventually get it close enough to perfect.

~Viz

If any of those games use Direct3D, then you need cedega.

Ive been playing Half-Life 2 and Counter Strike source on cedega in linux.
And thanks to linux's ability to take full advantage of my 64bit hardware, in some area's it performs a little bit beter with windows games than windows, lol.

Question, is there anyway to get cedega for free. Because if you can't, then I still vote for trying with Wine, as they have recently been working on DirectX compatibility. I don't know how far they are, but the more users there are with more applications reporting more bugs, the better Wine will become.

~Viz

vizskywalker, we all know you get things free because you are so good at sucking
C O C K and F U C K I N G people in the A S S

well, Cedega can only be free if u get their CVS version, else, use Wine, most of my games are DirectX (3D) based, so it won't work. It'll only work if it's OpenGL

xboxrulz

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~Viz