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by axx 3682 days ago
I'm wondering, is it possible to play games (from Steam / GOG et al) on ReactOS?
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jeditobe 3682 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGwKKV1l4Vk
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de_Selby 3682 days ago
Video shows a 12 year old game running very poorly.

So, in summary: No

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axx 3682 days ago
But it's running inside a VM, so if you install it natively, it should be a lot smoother.
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oblio 3682 days ago
The things is, can it run natively on a decent array of hardware? Unless it can reliably use Windows drivers I expect the hardware support to not be that great. After all, Linux & FreeBSD, which are much older and a lot more popular, still have problems sometime with hardware support.
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roblabla 3681 days ago
You'll notice (from reading the youtube description) it's using the VirtualBox Direct3D driver (which was written with windows as a target, not reactos). Support for windows driver is one of the goals of the OS IIRC.
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jeditobe 3682 days ago
Not 12 years old. Game engine was updated several times.
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