Whenever I try to run a game, it either crashes immediately or runs so slow it won't work. I've tried the same apps in Windows 7 as well and they work fine in it. I've seen a youtube video someone playing Crysis 2 on WINE... if someone can play Crysis 2 on WINE, why can't I play even the basic games on it? Is it that I have configure it? If so, what do I have to do to do so?

Also, on Crossover Liunx, I tried running Portal on it and it was super slow and laggy as hell when it ran perfectly on Windows. What do I do? I have a bad Graphics Card, Intel HD Graphics, but everything else is more than enough to play most *Non-resource consuming* games.

3.2GHz Intel Dualcore, 6GBs of DDR2 RAM, 1TB HDD, and Intel HD Graphics. I'm running a 32-Bit system though, and the reason is is that when I first install Ubuntu I didn't know the difference and I didn't want to go through all the customizing and transferring all of my files to a machine VIA SSH or a server. Could the fact that it's 32-Bit also cause the problems?

Well, in my experience, and from what I've heard from others, Intel HD really, really sucks if you want to play modern, commercial games. Also, Wine is really unreliable when it comes to anything. Sometimes things work, sometimes they do not. On one system, that game may work, on another, not really. 32-bit should not matter at all. Personally, I run 64-bit Fedora, and I have to install a bunch of 32-bit libraries in addition to the 64-bit ones in order to run any 32-bit program. In my opinion, 32-bit is good for most people. If you know, what you are doing and you can do it, 64-bit is a good choice too. Also, keep in mind that Wine only emulates/does Wine magic with Windows XP, not anything above that. So you might have more limitations as to how good you will run stuff (I think). Again, Crossover is the same thing. It will never work one hundred percent with anything as Wine an Crossover are unpredictable programs. I would recommend either dual-booting or looking for games that run natively on Linux.

Best of Luck

Alex

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The very first time you use an .exe file, WINE will pop open and ask a question or 2, after that it pretty much just starts when ever you use a file. I have had to change ownership permissions to ALL read/write, I've had to mark things as OPEN AS EXECUTABLE, I've had to show perseverance and just keep trying ... WINE is picky.
I can run some things that others have had a hard time with (Project 64, N64 emulator for instance) ... and it takes almost no effort. Then when trying to run a audio program it denys me.
The emulator I use as an example, Works just fine when I boot using Zorin, but is glitchy and slow in dreamlinux. ... I recommend just playing with options,changing ownership of files ... I mean the worse that can happen is you won't be able to use something you already can't use.

Also as abrinister stated, Intel blows (Intel inside//idiot outside. used to be on of my favorites) ... However, I am using a laptop with all intel chips ... Audio,video,processors ... and debian hates them (ubuntu is somewhat friendly, but it doesn't invite Intel over to watch the superbowl ya know?)

Anyway enough ranting, Just play with it and hope for the best.

Good luck!

Yes, you have to configure WINE to play games. WINE is not an Emulator (hence the name) but an API that mimics / translates Windows system calls into something Linux can handle. A key concept is to use 'winecfg' to set up the games and also to check the WINE application database http://appdb.winehq.org/. You need to decide BEFORE you install, what installation environment you need (Win98, Win2k, WinXP, Win7 etc..). You also need to remember that WINE does add a bit of overhead (eg DirectX to OPENGL) and so not all graphic chipsets had handle the demands. The Intel GPU ESPECIALLY since the OSS Linux drivers are no where near as fast as the proprietary Windows drivers.

Not all GNU/Linux are created equal. WINE is x86 32-bit only (x86_64 is experimental) so you need a pure 32-bit Linux or a proper multilib setup. If are running UBUNTU I bet you installed the 64-bit OS version and are missing some 32-bit libs. For gaming, UBUNTU sucks - personal opinion, YMMV. Another issue is that the UBUNTU repository version of WINE does not work very well and is not compiled properly.

As for Crysis2, dude, there is no freaking way you are going to run that on ANY OS with an Intel HD chipset. You will need a fairly beefy Nvidia or ATI GPU.

Your VERY first step is to check http://appdb.winehq.org/ before you yell "It doesn't work!" WINE is not Windows. Hell, not even Windows can run Windows games all that well.

Sign me:
Slackware64 13.37 multilib WINE 1.3.21 (Baldur's Gate, Starcraft, Civ4, Oblivion...) Nvidia GT430, AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+, 2GB DRAM. Gamer since the Dawn of Computer Games.

You might need to install direct X or other run time libraries. You can usually see which from looking at the game in the Winehq App db. Also, you'll need the proprietary drivers for your card.

Keep in mind you usually sacrafice a little performance playing in Wine, so if you get 30 fps in Windows, you might get 20 in Linux, so if things are working but a little laggy it might be due to your hardware.

I can get a fair few pretty high end games working happily in Wine. I play Rift on close to ultra and SC2 pretty much maxed out in Linux, so it can be done.. Gl hf

Also, forgot to mention this in my previous post. http://wiki.winehq.org/ is a required resource, expecially "winetricks" a shell script that eases the installation of various Windows libraries under WINE - in particular DirectX.

another useful utility is Play On Linux
If your game is supported it can help automate the installation and creation of the optimum wine configuration for your game.
I myself have never used it but i know people who have used it succesfully.
Note, Play On Linux does require a legal copy of the game and valid installation media.

but i would have to agree that the video card in use is indeed important.

Only in Linux. It does fine with Windows.

What version of Crossover did you use? I have a similar setup and have only minor slowdowns.