[opensuse] Sort of OT: Win games running in VB.
Trying to get my son - a gamer - on Linux permanently ... Most of the games (Call of Duty, etc) I've tried will install - but - on play, which requires the same install CD, says that it's NOT the real CD but a backup and load the REAL install CD. Any ideas on the problem ? And a work around ? Thanks, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 13:00, Duaine Hechler
Trying to get my son - a gamer - on Linux permanently ...
Most of the games (Call of Duty, etc) I've tried will install - but - on play, which requires the same install CD, says that it's NOT the real CD but a backup and load the REAL install CD.
Any ideas on the problem ? And a work around ?
Haven't seen any replies to this one. There are a few gotchas with playing Windows games in Wine/Linux. - Any game that requires Windows Live will not work. - Any game that requires .NET 3.5 or higher will not work, and it's a hit/miss for .NET3.0 and below. - Game peripherals like steering wheels (eg the Logitech Driving Force GT) may not work at all in Linux. If you're serious about gaming in Linux (playing Windows games) then I'd really recommend you look at Crossover Games. It's relatively inexpensive, and the games that are supported (either officially or by the community) usually work very well. Installing is managed by a handy GUI, and each game is installed in its own Wine environment (so one game setup doesn't break an existing working game). I use Crossover for my Games, and about 60 or 70% of the Steam games I've got work great, and probably the same ratio for CD/DVD and digitally distributed games that I have. If you do not want to go the Crossover Games route and you run into a game that gets caught up in the "I can't find the real CD" loop despite the fact you do have the real CD in the drive and mounted, you could try a NoCD hack. Search Google or NoCD and the game name. There is no guarantee that there is a NoCD that will work in Wine (also a hit/miss) and no guarantee that whoever created a NoCD hack didn't add anything "extra" in the executable... in other words, you take your chances if you choose this quasi-legal solution. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 07/22/2011 03:08 AM, C wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 13:00, Duaine Hechler
wrote: Trying to get my son - a gamer - on Linux permanently ...
Most of the games (Call of Duty, etc) I've tried will install - but - on play, which requires the same install CD, says that it's NOT the real CD but a backup and load the REAL install CD.
Any ideas on the problem ? And a work around ? Haven't seen any replies to this one.
There are a few gotchas with playing Windows games in Wine/Linux. - Any game that requires Windows Live will not work. - Any game that requires .NET 3.5 or higher will not work, and it's a hit/miss for .NET3.0 and below. - Game peripherals like steering wheels (eg the Logitech Driving Force GT) may not work at all in Linux.
I don't think any of "his games" run into the above gotchas.
If you're serious about gaming in Linux (playing Windows games) then I'd really recommend you look at Crossover Games. It's relatively inexpensive, and the games that are supported (either officially or by the community) usually work very well. Installing is managed by a handy GUI, and each game is installed in its own Wine environment (so one game setup doesn't break an existing working game). I use Crossover for my Games, and about 60 or 70% of the Steam games I've got work great, and probably the same ratio for CD/DVD and digitally distributed games that I have.
I thought about Crossover Games, but I did not know how well it worked. What about the other addon - Cedega (spelling) ?
If you do not want to go the Crossover Games route and you run into a game that gets caught up in the "I can't find the real CD" loop despite the fact you do have the real CD in the drive and mounted, you could try a NoCD hack. Search Google or NoCD and the game name. There is no guarantee that there is a NoCD that will work in Wine (also a hit/miss) and no guarantee that whoever created a NoCD hack didn't add anything "extra" in the executable... in other words, you take your chances if you choose this quasi-legal solution.
C. Have to look into NoCD
Thanks, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:21, Duaine Hechler
I thought about Crossover Games, but I did not know how well it worked.
What about the other addon - Cedega (spelling) ?
Cedega as you're thinking of it is dead now. It's morphed into http://gametreelinux.com/ which isn't targeted at the consumer market (it's aimed at developers now). Crossover Games works very very well on the supported games, and reasonably well on many/most unsupported games. It is essentially a snapshot of Wine combined with a lot of extra tweaks to make the supported games work better. You can also just use vanilla Wine... the trade off is you do not have any tools to manage the Wine environments, the game installs and so on... you have to do it manually... and you do not have the built-in tweaks that come with Crossover Games. You can try out Crossover Games for free... works for 7 days per game install... more than enough to tinker and see if it works for your use case. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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