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cireland0307

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Registered: 2008-09-16

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Wine and gaming

I'm pretty impressed how far wine has come over the past year. It was a year ago that I basically couldn't get any games installed under wine, however, now, I'm even playing some modern and semi-modern games under wine. For instance, I couldn't get Dawn of War I and Winter Assault to work, however, the second expansion and Soulstorm did work without a hitch. I also got Mark of Chaos to work as well (another Warhammer game).  I couldn't get Civ IV, Gal Civ II, SOASE, Medieval 2 to work, unfortunately. Some other games that work are Warlords IV, Heroes of Might and Magic III Complete and IV Complete, Kohan II, and Fantasy Wars.

So, this is a much better outlook than I had to start with. So, there is some hope for wine after all.

Happy gaming!

kensai

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Re: Wine and gaming

Yeah, in the best case scenario Wine will provide a great platform for replacing Windows. It is getting there, there are much more things to do, but at least some software makers are optimizing their applications for usage under Wine. This is the case of utorrent, those guys are constantly fixing utorrent for it to behave in the best way possible under Wine. I myself I'm using utorrent, since the new Deluge 1.0RC8 is just so bad and so simple is not even worth looking at, I might as well, compile the latest 0.5 version now.

But the point is, Wine surely is getting better and better. Hence why I'm the maintainer of the package.

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piotrk

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Re: Wine and gaming

hello:)

I'm new Arch Linux user and I have problem with wine...i can't find them in repositories..I have section [community] in /etc/pacman.conf but when I'm  searching(pacman -Ss wine) in my repository database I couldn't find any "wine package":)
Could you help me?How to install wine?(skip from source)

sorry for my english

Arch Linux 2008.06-x86_64

kensai

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Re: Wine and gaming

The problem is you are using Arch x86_64, and wine is not available for 64 bit systems, at least not natively. Someone here might be able to help you with installing the bin32-wine package.

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piotrk

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Re: Wine and gaming

aha ok

skottish

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Re: Wine and gaming

The problem is you are using Arch x86_64, and wine is not available for 64 bit systems, at least not natively. Someone here might be able to help you with installing the bin32-wine package.

It can be done with lib32 packages from community plus some from AUR and the official Arch Wine package. This is the way I'd go because it's sure to use official Arch packages. I don't use Wine, but I'd be happy to paste a list of all things 32 bit I have on my system.

Last edited by skottish (2008-09-16 17:45:14)

kensai

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Re: Wine and gaming

OK, then forget the mentioning of the bin32-wine, I thought it was necessary, hence I don't use x86_64.

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cireland0307

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Registered: 2008-09-16

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Re: Wine and gaming

Add Heroes V Hammers of Fate and Tribes of the East to that list. Heroes V itself seems to have trouble starting up. I got it started once, but after that, it kind of hangs.