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/
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