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by jimbobthrowawy 163 days ago
Wine works on windows too. It's used by the shorthorn project to get software for newer versions of windows to run under XP.
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bigyabai 163 days ago
Yep, for some games like Elden Ring it even fixes Windows-specific performance hiccups: https://youtu.be/vAooLiCy7rE
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cryptonector 162 days ago
Whoa. Can it be used to run older software on newer Windows too?
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account42 151 days ago
GOG used to ship Wine ddraw.dll with some games although for this specific use case there are better options now (e.g. cnc-ddraw).
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