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I hope this message is helpful and I hope to get some feedback about what could be improved about my approach. I researched some stuff I desided to do a free trial of Crossover "The commercial Wine" Which is more GUI and easier to configure. I've got Oblivion to install Sound works, graphics are supurb but it is VERRRY SLOW I've heard of Open GL but couldn't find it in the local community repo. Oblivion needs from what I understand is direct3d or the ActiveX that installs with the game disk. If there are any solutions. I'd be glad to hear them. Does Windows directX hinder the running of PC Games on a Linux system or would it be better to get the latest optimized Linux i686 DirectX?
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Does Windows directX hinder the running of PC Games on a Linux system
Yes
would it be better to get the latest optimized Linux i686 DirectX?
There is none. directx is strictly microsoft stuff.
Wine translates directx calls to opengl calls on the fly.
The easiest way if wine doesn't work is to buy cedega, which would have pretty up to date directx "support".
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Cedega is more hassle than wine to be honest, crossover is the alternative, but it doesn't support directx 9(because the inplementation isn't mature enough yet), oblivion will even slower since it doesn't support multiple cores(if you have a dual processor).
Use the Source, Luke!
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I've got oblivion to run under wine some months ago. Followed some howto on the internet to get it working, think it was this one:
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Linux
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wine is not all that more lagging behind cedega in terms of directx support: it now has dx9-class support, with FBO and GLSL.
not that either offer the same compatibility though, in term of code they really are vastly different products now. I have some apps/games that work in one and not in the other, and the other way around, or both, or none. It really depends both on your hardware and on the windows software to be run.
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Morrowind works fine on Cedega.
I'm a moderate, it's the mainstream that's extremist.
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Good to know but that Link seems pretty complicated. I haven't tryed it yet. I'm doing all my exe stuff in Windows for now. Unless I can find the crossover program at the mall or something.
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you can install directx 9c to some extent in wine http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/11 … -wine.html
works almost perfectly with guild wars here
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Morrowind works fine on Cedega.
Not really. I have only 20 FPS with the lowest view distance possible INSIDE.
I tried it with 6.0.3 and 5.2.10 and the fps are too low.
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Don't know if you saw, but i know there is a patch called 'Oldblivion' or something that was used for Oblivion. I don't know if it's still required.
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I did run oblivion using the uespwiki, bu tit took some tweaking and it lagged alot. But that was on some older hardware. Morrowind on the other hand should run just fine using the latest wine.
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