On 23/05/05, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johannes Weiner wrote: > > >On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:48:09PM -0500, C R. Little wrote: > > > > > >>I'm setting up my very first install of wine. I'm a bit confused on which > >>one to emerge I would like to use Office 2003 Professional and have the > >>ability to run games like world of warcraft. Just more "newbie" questions > >>from me. > >>Thanks for the help with everything. > >> > >> > >Want windows? Use windows. > >Not? Check openoffice and perhaps cedega for game emulation. > > > Games don't run well in emulation, especially Doom III and Half-Life 2, > due to the heavy use of DirectX. You can try Wine or Cedega, but even > the fastest systems will experience quite a performance hit. You're > best off dual-booting a copy of Windows and running the games from > there. It's OK, dual-booting for playing games is a perfectly > acceptable use of Windows. :-P
Ironically, on my system, it is quite the opposite, I noticed a average of 10fps improvement when running WoW with cedega. Don't know about CS, cos I get the maximum FPS, haven't got time to try hl2 yet. -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
