[LUAU] Wine 1.0 can be amazing

[Eric Hattemer]

Wine development has grown by leaps and bounds, but unfortunately, 
that's been from utter garbage to a sometimes passable API.  You'll 
almost surely need to execute some or all of the suggestions on 
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9194 for 
Guild Wars, including reading up on all the bugs.

Aside from Guild Wars, you may benefit from some of the modifications 
from http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks .  I've never really gotten 
anything to work without importing a dozen or so .dll files from Windows 
XP and turning on native mode for them.  There used to be problems with 
the installer that came with wine, which caused it to skip certain 
registry keys.  So I had to take a Windows install of the program, 
export its registry keys, then import them into my wine environment.

Wine has gotten a lot better, but until they add features like working 
anti-aliasing, back-buffering, and predictable sound output, my games 
are running on Windows.  I used to run EVE on Wine at 0.5fps, whereas on 
Windows, it was close to 300fps.  I played with all sorts of options and 
dll files, read every forum entry and every workaround, and never found 
an answer besides Wine fundamentally doesn't support back-buffering, 
which is used extensively by EVE.  So I gave up.  Maybe Wine will 
finally implement all of DirectX 9 by the time all games require DirectX 
10...

-Eric Hattemer


Jason Axelson wrote:
> I haven't tried it on World of Warcraft but I've been having trouble
> getting to run Guild Wars.  Which is odd because Guild Wars is on the
> Platinum list so it should work without any configuration.
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Peter Besenbruch <prb at lava.net> wrote:
>   
>>>     I recently experimented with Wine 1.0 under Ubuntu 8.04.  I was
>>> utterly amazed at running World of Warcraft perfectly and at a stunning
>>> speed under an older P4 with a mediocre AGP card.  Everything works.
>>> Even the sound is flawless.  There are quite a few other apps listed in
>>> the Wine DB.  It's really come a long way.
>>>       
>> I'm still waiting for it to run Word Perfect 10, or Microsoft Publisher 98. It
>> tends to work on graphics programs, and rather imperfectly on a Windows 3 era
>> dictionary. I still run the dictionary, because it's good, and I put up with
>> the display imperfections.
>>
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