Windows Emulator.

Starius · 07-28-2007, 08:05 PM

Other than wine what other Windows Emulators out there are good to install (free or not) for Ubuntu Linux? I am a gamer and none of my games work at the moment even with wine installed. At the moment my currently installed games are:

World Of Warcraft
Sins of a Solar Empire Beta 2
World in Conflict Beta
Half Life 2 With Gary's mod
And Eve-online

b0nd · 07-28-2007, 08:50 PM

Although emulators are there but better play them on windows only.

regards

Starius · 07-28-2007, 10:14 PM

so theres no way to switch all my games to Linux compatibility at all?

antoniog · 07-28-2007, 10:35 PM

Which language do you use?

Zmyrgel · 07-29-2007, 05:48 AM

For games I suggest you use the Cedega. It costs 15$ for 3 months and 5$ for any additional months...

Lunate · 07-29-2007, 06:44 AM

With proper configuration you can play some of those games with Wine.

prasanta · 07-29-2007, 07:07 AM

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so theres no way to switch all my games to Linux compatibility at all?

Wine is one option to get it done. Just try crossover. Though I have not used the application you can anyway give it a try.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrossOver

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Prasanta

IndyGunFreak · 07-29-2007, 07:21 AM

Gaming is the only reason to Dual Boot.

IGF

Starius · 07-29-2007, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by antoniog

Which language do you use?

I use the English version

prasanta · 07-29-2007, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by IndyGunFreak

Gaming is the only reason to Dual Boot.

:-) Now that can't be a reason for shifting to Windows.

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Dummy-in-Linux · 07-29-2007, 07:25 PM

World Of Warcraft works fine with my Crossover Professional Linux (http://www.codeweavers.com)

Your other games I not play...so not much info on that. But you can check the list of compatible programs on the Codeweavers website

ordealbyfire83 · 07-30-2007, 12:36 PM

If dual-booting isn't agreeable, then you can use qemu to run Wind@ws while working in Linux. (In Ubuntu you should be able to get it by doing "sudo apt-get install qemu") You won't have completely 'native' operating speeds but depending on your computer, it might still be acceptable. There is a nice tutorial here http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/Qemu

Zmyrgel · 07-31-2007, 01:26 AM

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Originally Posted by ordealbyfire83

If dual-booting isn't agreeable, then you can use qemu to run Wind@ws while working in Linux. (In Ubuntu you should be able to get it by doing "sudo apt-get install qemu") You won't have completely 'native' operating speeds but depending on your computer, it might still be acceptable. There is a nice tutorial here http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/Qemu

If I remember correctly the virtualization offered by qemu won't give any 3D-acceleration so gaming would be kind lost hope. I remember reading that some might offer 3D-support in near future.