Ubuntu Gaming Emulation & Installation & Virtual Box?
 

hello my name is Chris Collins, I was hoping I could get some help, as I don't know much about ubuntu

Gaming - how is gaming emulation on ubuntu, is there tons of bugs when u emulate. will it require a gtx560 instead of 460 to play at the same settings if you get what I mean, also how long will it take for me to play battlefield or skyrim per se after release a couple days, weeks or months?
what is the best windows emulator, crossover, paralles or wine. if the gaming is bad, I will just game on windows and dual boot

USB Install - Do I have this right: Create Partition, Download OS from website put it on site, set boot device as ubuntu in bios, install, then set dual boot in bios (if I keep Windows)

Virtual Box - will ubuntu be just as fast if I run it in virtual box and can I play windows games through the virtual box well, or will virtual box not be able to handle that

Quick Questions
Dual Booting - is this done in the bios, I'm not entirely sure
Partioning - do i need special software to do this, is it built in to xp somewhere

thanks for reading through my post :)

you can run ubuntu fine as a VM

but playing games needs accelerated graphics

i am not sure but it may be possible if windows is running with opengl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiZyigv_aRc


dual booting is done by linux during installation
MAKE SURE that you choose to install it side-by-side and not to overwrite/take all disk

again partitioning is done during linux install and software is included
make sure that you close windows cleanly before trying to install linux
just shut down, and wait for the system to powerdown.

As far as I know, Crossover is a frontend for WINE. I use PlayOnLinux (another WINE frontend) but I haven't really tried this with gaming since my netbook just won't be able to handle that.

I tried all that Wine stuff for games, completely deleting Windows from my systems. But after trying it for a while I did a new install of Windows on my gaming rig, with the only purpose: gaming. For everything else I use Slackware.
It is simple as that: While many games will run with Wine, many lack features (like antialiasing), are sometimes slow or laggy, crash sometimes (which is even more annoying when a savegame is destroyed during a crash), or, worse, don't work at all.
I also tried to play games using a virtualized Windows in VMware (which has better 3D performance than Virtualbox), but you can only play older games with a decent performance. Newer games mostly won't work at all because the virtualized graphics card doesn't support a specific feature.

So my recommendation: Go for dual-boot. Windows games are just that, games intended to run and work best with Windows.