Nuno Magalhães wrote: > At the moment the only use i have for XP is for games, which i seldom > play anyway. I have Half-Life 2, Quakes 1, 2 and 4, Soldier of Fortune > 2 and Thief 3... Mostly shooters which usually are demanding as far as > graphics and framerate go. I have a lot of guests so occasionaly i do > reboot into XP, which is annoying, i'd rather open a window within my > session. > I've heard a lot about VMware and afaik using wine would not really > cut it, even though wine's not an emulator. I'll dig into VirtualBox, > Xen and kvm. Xen won't work. AFAIK that requires kernel patches for the guest OS to work under the Hypervisor. Trivial in an OSS kernel like Linux or the *BSDs but, uh, a non-starter with Redmond kernels. I think the same goes for kvm. Honestly, best suggestion is wine. The last time I poked at gaming under Linux was on an Ubuntu partition a few months ago. WoW ran perfectly but patching was wonky. EVE-O worked great. Those are the only two I tried but the frames were with 3-5 of native. IE, negligible drop. Prior to that I tried Cedega from Transgaming. There is a monthly subscription but if Wine cannot do it chances are Cedega will. And if Cedega doesn't do it, paying the monthly fee gives you a voice on what games they should focus on next. Cedega ran CoH and Steam + HL2 + CS:S perfectly. Of course at the time I had a 9800Pro and had to swap it out for my ancient GeForce3 to run. Frames sucked but that was because of the huge backwards step in hardware. I would not be surprised if HL2, SoF2 and Thief 2 ran under plain ol' wine. As for Q1, Q2 and Q4 that's a no-brainer. Run them natively! http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/quake4/ -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 1FC01004 | And dream I do... -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
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