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