Microsoft broke the Dx8 and below emulation in windows 8, some games just run slow, but some are unplayable ( Arcanum for example render most of the sprites and map solid black without Wine )
Since I am using Wine more and more to game, and new releases work on Linux natively, I am thinking of experimenting not installing Windows at all on my next PC
EDIT: To use Wine on Windows you just paste wine DLLs on the game folder.
Not all versions of Wine work with all games, you might need to try several, currently the site with the DLLs is this one:
How do you do this? Assassin's Creed I and II are very unstable on Windows 10 - this might be a solution. Hell, even Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory runs better under Wine than it does under Windows 10.
which wine do you use to play arcanum? I tried wine and it was so slow as to be completely unusable, so I got a virtualbox running windows 10, which works fine.
Many Valve/Steam games use Wine libraries to do their thing on Linux/SteamOS ports, so Wine is probably more important and more used now than ever before. The fact that they work so well that most folks don't even realize there's (some of) Wine behind the scenes is testament to how far it has come.
Well yes. The thread was about what Windows-only programs we use in Wine. Blizzard games are examples of such, a counterpoint to Valve games which run natively. I do not understand your comment.
There are a lot, but there still aren’t many big name titles. The ones that have been ported often have a lot of issues too (see BioShock, the Witcher). Also if the game is even slightly old, chances are it works great in WINE and there’s no hope of a Linux port.