What Windows games do you run in Linux?

[LinuxGamer]

So I am curious, what Windows games do you run in Linux, and do you use Cedega, Dosbox or Wine? Or something else? What has your experience been with each? What games have your tried to run, that didn't? What is the biggest problem you have had with running Windows games in Linux? Installation? Configuration? Something else?

I used to use Cedega, and had pretty good luck with it. Winex before that of course. At first I really did not like Cedega, but it really did make it easier for some games. Many just worked. No problems at all.

Dosbox has been great for my older games. I think it is a bit confusing for beginners, and that it should just have a directory that it creates and mounts automatically on setup that would act like a normal dos c drive. Then they could just give one or two commands to you and anyone could use it in minutes.

Wine has gotten better and better for running stuff. With the feedback people leave at the winehq.com, I have managed to get a lot of stuff running. Some stuff that I could not even get to run in XP anymore. Such as an older game I like called Mob Rule. I currently have a bunch of games setup in Wine on my system. Everything I used to use Cedega for in fact.
Dune 2000
C&C Generals
World of Warcraft
Rollercoaster Tycoon 2
Tropico
Warcraft III
Battlefield 1942

I have run into a few that just became more of a pain in the butt to try and make run then what it was worth to me. Freelancer for example. I could get it to install. I could see the movies, but the minute I tried to launch, the whole game went to crap. It stuttered in a few spots, but not to bad.

Was just wondering what other peoples experiences have been? What sort of information would help to improve your experience with running games in Linux?

[revhouse1]

I use Cedega have never had much luck in the past with Wine, but people keep telling me its getting better. I also use DosBox for some older games -- I still enjoy playing my Infocom games (text based adventures) some I've never finished other just seem to have a great replayablity factor. Gotta love Zork and HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy

The windows games I play or at least try to play with Cedega are:
Sid Mieir's Pirates
Civilization IV
SimCity
Baldur's Gate 1 and 2
Alpha Centuri and Alien Crossfire

I have a couple of Native Linux games to like Magesty, NWN, Quake, and DH:Lore

tom

[LinuxGamer]

Alpha Centuri and Alien Crossfire

I have a couple of Native Linux games to like Magesty, NWN, Quake, and DH:Lore

tom
Interesting, I have a bunch of native games also.. Most of those same ones. Except my Lore was through CNR, and like I said in another thread, it no longer installs.. At least not on Ubuntu.

I love Dosbox for the older games.. I have played Wasteland and Dune 2, and a few others on there. Those are only every once in awhile though.. I just get an urge now and then, and have to install Dosbox and get the old games out and dust em off.

So have you had any problems with the Windows games you do play? The main one I have run into in the past is the changing of cds, and I just copy everything off them and put them in a directory and install from there at this point.. Was just curious what problems others have, and their solutions?

[Oponium]

Hello.

I use a PS3 for Games, lol.

[subslug]

I currently don't run any games in Linux that aren't native. Lately all I've been playing is ETQW, which BTW, got an update yesterday that seems to have caused the bots to ease up on Easy setting and added a training setting.
This sort of limits the number of games I can play but I have in the past played games on Cedega like
Battlefield 1942 <---- my all time favorite game but a PITA to load in cedega thanks to the cd issue.
Call of Duty
CC Generals
and I think I had GTA3 at one point.

native games I have ran at some point are
Quake III
UT2004
Postal 2 Share the Pain
DH Lore
America's Army

I have a Windows install on a separate partition with nothing more than BF1942 loaded on it, to me it just runs better in Windows, besides I couldn't get Desert Combat to load on Cedega for some reason.

My PS2 sits gathering dust in the closet but, we just ordered Guitar Hero for it, I keep hearing how much fun it is so I figured I get some use out of the old Sony before it gets any more obsolete. :o

[DrHu]

http://bf1942.lightcubed.com/
--they are gone, but were Linux servers for Battlefield 1942.
http://www.fileplanet.com/129033/120000/fileinfo/Battlefield:-1942-v1.6-Full-Server-%5BLinux%5D-RC2


I use Cedega, but I don't usually run many games, and I have always found Cedega maybe does good marketing of their product, but fail to deliver on promises made, for runability of games on Linux under Cedega (wine)

I am also a fan of the Infocom text adventure games, and they don't need any extra support to work; apart from the interpreter to read the game.

[Oponium]

I currently don't run any games in Linux that aren't native. Lately all I've been playing is ETQW, which BTW, got an update yesterday that seems to have caused the bots to ease up on Easy setting and added a training setting.
This sort of limits the number of games I can play but I have in the past played games on Cedega like
Battlefield 1942 <---- my all time favorite game but a PITA to load in cedega thanks to the cd issue.
Call of Duty
CC Generals
and I think I had GTA3 at one point.

native games I have ran at some point are
Quake III
UT2004
Postal 2 Share the Pain
DH Lore
America's Army

I have a Windows install on a separate partition with nothing more than BF1942 loaded on it, to me it just runs better in Windows, besides I couldn't get Desert Combat to load on Cedega for some reason.

My PS2 sits gathering dust in the closet but, we just ordered Guitar Hero for it, I keep hearing how much fun it is so I figured I get some use out of the old Sony before it gets any more obsolete. :o
Guitar Hero is great, I played it at a friend's house. It's mad addictive, I couldn't stop playing it when I was over there, and that really says something because I get distracted easily (not ADD/ADHD, but Bipolar).

[Cloudy Wizzard]

So I am curious, what Windows games do you run in Linux, and do you use Cedega, Dosbox or Wine? Or something else? What has your experience been with each? What games have your tried to run, that didn't? What is the biggest problem you have had with running Windows games in Linux? Installation? Configuration? Something else?

Hmm,

Cedega : Warcraft III + Frozen Throne expansion
Cedega: Starcraft + Brood War expansion

Transgaming Edition : The Sims (Dosn't work anymore) + Kohan (also not working anymore).

Linux Native :

1. Unreal Tournament 2003
2. Unreal Tournament 2004
3. Never Winter Nights
4. Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns (Loki Edition, older then the Transgaming version but this one still works I think).
5. Cold War
6. Ankh
7. Civilization CTP(not working anymore, also from Loki Games).
8. Postal Plus
9. Postal 2 Share the Pain (I have both the CNR and Tuxgaming (or LGP) edition of Postal and Postal 2 so I actually bought it twice
10. Some other games from CNR like Bridge Costruction set, Orbz, ... and Dark Horizon : Lore
11. Uplink (a nethack like game I guess).
12. Darwinia
13. Defcon (Thermonuclear war and everybody looses :D :D)
14. NingPo Mahjong
15. Creatures
16. Hyperspace Delivery Boy (think both the LGP and CNR "version").
17. Mindrover (I think from CNR)
18. Candy Cruncher
19. Knights and Merchants


Any maybe some more, I'm not at my desktop at the moment.

Most Linux native games install/run pretty well and easy. With the exception of some older Loki games that have library problems.

Also the Introversion games like Uplink, Darwinia and Defcon have some problems with some of my Debian libraries but I got them all running.

Cedega is another thing : both Warcraft and Starcraft installed fine but some others games that were reported to work by Transgaming don't do much on my system.

I prefer the Linux native games especially when they come with an easy installer like the LOKI one.

[LinuxGamer]

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I use Cedega, but I don't usually run many games, and I have always found Cedega maybe does good marketing of their product, but fail to deliver on promises made, for runability of games on Linux under Cedega (wine)
Actually, there is usually some way to get any game Cedega claims will work working. You may have to do an ancient tribal dance and sacrifice a goat to the gaming gods, but I have almost always gotten games they said would work working by following the [URL="http://cedegawiki.sweetleafstudios.com/wiki/Category:Games"]Wiki (http://bf1942.lightcubed.com/).
Of course, I have had much the same success just using Wine and following the Appdb (http://appdb.winehq.org/appbrowse.php?iCatId=2). Of course, with both of them, you need to make sure and read all the way through and make sure the game actually works after you jump through all the hoops.



I am also a fan of the Infocom text adventure games, and they don't need any extra support to work; apart from the interpreter to read the game.
You mean like this? (http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html)

[DrHu]

Actually, there is usually some way to get any game Cedega claims will work working. You may have to do an ancient tribal dance and sacrifice a goat to the gaming gods, but I have almost always gotten games they said would work working by following the Wiki.
Of course, I have had much the same success just using Wine and following the Appdb. Of course, with both of them, you need to make sure and read all the way through and make sure the game actually works after you jump through all the hoops.
That was the point, what is the value of cedega, if it does not have a running game straight away on install.
--bookmarked that wiki.

Exactly, letting the mind travel (think) instead of directing it.

[Cloudy Wizzard]

That was the point, what is the value of cedega, if it does not have a running game straight away on install.

It allows some people who REALLY want to play that specific game in *nix to do so.

The same goes for Dreamweaver/Photoshop in WINE.

Some people need Dreamweaver or Photoshop but they don't want to buy/dual-boot a Windows system just for these 2 apps.

Dreamweaver CS3 will work on Linux in Wine but it needs a lot of work, but for people who really want it they don't care that it takes then 1 or 2 hours to copy the needed stuff from a windows installation and figuring howto get it to work in Wine from the wine WIKI.

Offcourse if the would work nativly it would be even better (most would settle with it just running out-of-the-box in Wine, Cedega or CXOffice but that's nog happening at the moment).

[LinuxGamer]

Found a good link (http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Epot/infocom/) for a lot of the old Infocom games..

[revhouse1]

Yeah, I found that some time back. It pretty cool but I still like running my own on my computer for some reason.

tom