Hi All,

I've been browsing the posts preparing to eliminate the last Windoze bastion from my PC. The all importnat gaming!

From my reading, I can see a lot of mixed methods and success using different ways to install and run games. I have win98 installed on a 20GB partition and Linux occupies the remaining 180GB.

So a quick heads up .... should I use wine and run games from the windows partition, or should I try installing natively. Favorite game of all time is Morrowind and it's expansions. Apparently, you can't install the expansions using Loki installers, I alot of people seem to be having trouble with Cedega and WineX 3.2.

I'm happy to nut my way through this, but it never hurts to get a few opinions first.

Regards

Mick

From my expiriance:

* Unreal tournament runs much better nativly on linux that windows

* Wine/cedega can run many games very well (jedi knight 2, quake 3, max payne,half life are the ones i have tried)

Many games however wont work, so leave your win98 inctact for those.

Thanks Cadj, that's a pretty good call.

Just quickly, when you say leave your windows intact, do you mean as a seperately bootable partition or as a dedicated "wine" drive?

regards
Mick

yes you should a windows partition (dual booting) around just for games

thats the only reason why i still have windows on my pc

I haven't maintained an active Windoze partition for years...

Don't miss it one bit.

well i need it for flash and photoshop, too bad really

I have an almost identical setup. 20gb XP (it shipped with my pc) and 160gb Slackware. I have Photoshop 6 running smoothly with wine, although I'm not sure about Flash. My XP partition is pretty much for Soldier of Fortune 2 multiplayer. Alas, punkbuster sucks and doesn't cooperate with Linux (nor does it stop anybody from cheating).