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by speeder 3772 days ago
I use wine to run windows games on windows...

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:

http://adolfintel.com/index.php?p=wined3d/index.frag

2 comments

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.