[Aardwolf]

DOSBox and Wine make Linux quite perfect for gaming.

Interestingly, for some games, running the Windows version in Wine works better than running a native Linux version they've made of the game. E.g. the native Linux version will complain that some library .so is not the correct version, or that it cannot connect to X, etc...

[gagege]

I appreciate and use Wine quite a bit, but it's far from perfect. A lot of things just plain crash from the get go.

Also, I wish that Steam on Linux would attempt to install and run Windows games via Wine. If I want to play, for instance, Spelunky, I need to close Linux Steam (can't log in in multiple clients, last time I checked) and open Windows Steam in Wine. Maybe there's a way to get Wine games to run in Linux Steam, I don't know. It would just be cool if it did it by default.

[Groxx]

Yeah, I've only had success about 3/4 of the time I've used Wine. Maybe less. That's still 3/4 more than 0, so I absolutely love it, but it's definitely not perfect.

[Aardwolf]

Often if something doesn't work, winetricks helps get the right components, and sometimes also settings like the one where Wine creates a "desktop" window inside of which the game gets ran.

[Groxx]

Often. And that's why I've achieved 3/4 success rate. But finding the magic winetricks incantations, even with the help of winehq.org, can be an enormous time-sink with low guarantee of success once you've exhausted the standard DirectX/VCRedist stuff.

[jebblue]

>> I appreciate and use Wine quite a bit, but it's far from perfect. A lot of things just plain crash from the get go.

This hasn't been my experience. Wine works great, Netflix runs very good on Ubuntu because of Wine. I've played several Windows games on Linux like Unreal which ran better on Linux under Wine that on Windows.

[codygman]

You could put this in the launch command of your game in the linux client:

wine /full/path/to/windows-game.exe

I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work?