Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3831 mails)

[Russell Jones <russell.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 08:26 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>   
> > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 21:28 +0000, Pete Connolly wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > I still have a Win32 boot partition on this system in case I need to run a 
> > > game that doesn't work on Linux.  Haven't booted into it in 6+ months :)
> > >       
> > My daughter has a laptop running Windows XP. Previously, she used the
> > family computer and Linux and we pretty much happy. What tipped the
> > scale for Windows was that she likes to play Sims2. vmware seemed a bit
> > much to deal with to let that happen (she is only 13). This leads to the
> > endless discussion of getting games for Linux. IIRC, the success rate
> > for companies that have tried has not been very encouraging.
> >     
> Have you tried running Sims2 in wine or using Crossover Office?
>   

Not working under wine yet... 
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=1942
I'd think a big pile of games will start working when DX9c is 
fully/sufficiently-well mapped. I'm not sure how DX versions relate to 
shader model levels, though.

Russell
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx