I think I might break down and try to run games with Wine again. Has anyone here ran Warcraft III with Wine? How dow it run? Can you connect to b.net? How about alternatives to Wine, like the WineX projectt, how are they?

WineX has more support for directX at the moment, but you have to pay. WineX is meant for games, right now wine is just meant for simple window apps.

Okay, I just installed Warcraft III however it seems that Wine has problems with direct access to the cdrom. Is there a way around this or a fix for this? Do I really have to download a NoCD hack for every game I want to play?

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Okay, I just installed Warcraft III however it seems that Wine has problems with direct access to the cdrom. Is there a way around this or a fix for this? Do I really have to download a NoCD hack for every game I want to play?

Transmeta's WineX/Whatever-it's-called-now uses "secret" methods they've licensed to allow most copy protection to work (they're not in the CVS version, only the "paid for" binary version). Normal WINE does not include these hacks, so you generally do have to get a no-CD crack to play games.

Ignoring any moral dilemmas, this is mostly a small hassle as no-CD cracks are often easily available (ever since my exploding CDROM incident, I refuse to leave any CD in the drive for more time than necessary on any machine, so I have gained a bit of experience finding such cracks).

On a more positive note, most games that ship Linux-native binaries do not require the CD be in the drive to play them from what I've seen, even when their Windows counterparts do (for whatever reason). How very considerate :).

Does anyone know how WineX runs? I don't want to shell out money for it if I can't only expect slightly better than Wine performance. I want to KNOW I will be able to play things like World of Warcraft when they come out.

BTW World of Warcraft is the entire point of why I am concerned about this now. I either have to shell out some cash to put together a current windows system or shell out a little bit of cash for a multiprocessor linux system that can run windows games.

I'm thinking about a virtual CD style solution. It's easy enough to use the loopback driver to mount the cd image, but how do you make a device that points to the .iso and pretends it's an actual cdrom?

I found that mounting the CD image at /mnt/cdrom does the job, but I'd guess that if your mount point for you CD in fstab is different you'd have to use that instead

Tried it, no go.

I realized after the post that if having the real cdrom device and the real contents of the cdrom at /mnt/cdrom didn't work then why would a fake cdrom device and an image mounted at /mnt/cdrom? This blows. This isn't going to work. The only chance I have is WineX and no one here seems to have used it.

All I want to know is if I can use wineX to play a game as easily as if I were playing on windows.

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All I want to know is if I can use wineX to play a game as easily as if I were playing on windows.

You could take a look at Transgaming's games database. They've listed which games work and how well. It may be useful to you.

Okay, so I got cadigula or whatever the hell WineX is called now. I havn't actually been able to use it yet because of Kernel/driver problems (my transition to 2.6 didn't go so well). So far I have gotten farther than I did with normal wine. I'll post how well it works once I get it working.