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- Onestone, on 01/02/2009, -1/+73Finally we have subpixel font rendering
- indochris609, on 01/03/2009, -6/+74Ok seriously Digg.
Is there any way to get rid of the "Related by Keyword" thing between the title and the comments? That is so ***** annoying. - blooby, on 01/03/2009, -2/+40I like to look back at previous Wine releases and reminisce... good times.
- Hoogs, on 01/03/2009, -7/+43Oh boy! My life is complete! Wine 1.1.1.1.01.2.1 is FINALLY here!
- Craga89, on 01/02/2009, -2/+36Another great release from the wine dev team. Hopefully 64bit support will continue to develop at a good pace. And finally subpixel font rendering! Should make things look a little nicer.
- phatedesigns, on 01/02/2009, -3/+36they fixed cs4!!
- sloppychris, on 01/03/2009, -3/+31I don't want windows. I want linux and a windows program or two that the developers refuse to port.
- fxu1989, on 01/03/2009, -0/+21Add:
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To your adblock plus. - Smegzor, on 01/03/2009, -2/+21in b4 "yes it can"
http://www.junauza.com/2008/12/yes-linux-can-run-c ... - aaron552, on 01/03/2009, -1/+19Great... like they could write a client for WoW, or any other comercial windows game, without breaching copyright. We don't necessarily need alternatives for everything. Writing a new alternative for a windows app *is* reinventing the wheel
- chris062689, on 01/03/2009, -3/+17Because the wheel is bogged down with gunk in the tires, and the company that sold you the wheel makes you pay $150 dollars for it.
- Methodius, on 01/03/2009, -2/+15There should probably at least be a cutoff within 2-3 months or something, because the Wine releases of yesteryear, although undoubtedly related, are of little interest to me right now.
- aaron552, on 01/03/2009, -0/+13Not to mention doesn't breach Blizzard's copyright and is as bug-free and good-looking and as updated as the official client...
Good luck.
While you're working on that I'll be over here with wine kthx - Krissam, on 01/03/2009, -1/+13that is not always possible... but if you're so awesome, please write a WoW client that runs natively on linux.
- SniperXPX, on 01/03/2009, -1/+13Loads of Warhammer bug fixes.
- spyres, on 01/03/2009, -0/+11Yes, use adblock with the element hiding extension. That way you can block that element only. Works great.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/436 ... - aaron552, on 01/03/2009, -1/+12Then you're probably doing it wrong
- klitzbtc, on 01/03/2009, -0/+10I need a Wine version that can play Red Alert 2 without lagging my head off.
- scy1192, on 01/03/2009, -4/+14buried as dupli- oh wait, it has a *tiny* bit bigger number. darn.
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -1/+11It's not an emulator!!!
- Arnos, on 01/03/2009, -0/+9Good stuff- thanks
Dugg - NixiePixel, on 01/03/2009, -1/+9I haven't had that experience...sorry to hear that...
- matthekc, on 01/03/2009, -3/+11Another fine Wine from the wine of the month club.
- Spr0k3t, on 01/03/2009, -0/+8@indochris609: Use the Firefox Adblock Plus Element Hiding Helper. Works a treat.
- theaceoffire, on 01/03/2009, -4/+11"Whenever I try to do anything with Wine it's slow and crashes a lot."
See? A perfect implementation of Windows! - greeniemeani, on 01/03/2009, -5/+12in b4 "but can it run crysis"
- Smegzor, on 01/03/2009, -3/+10WINE for the WIN!
- ladyattis, on 01/03/2009, -5/+12Hmmm, Wine is definitely piquing my interest in moving totally over to a Linux/BSD desktop setup, but too bad many of my other games are too confusing to 'hack' together a decent set of diff files to makerkhem work under Wine (damn you MS for D3D!!!). :-P
- sunnydayz, on 01/03/2009, -0/+7yup, good stuff
thanx - sqrt7744, on 01/03/2009, -0/+7Yes.
- NixiePixel, on 01/03/2009, -1/+7WINE really is wonderful for what it does. Aside from gaming (and even then really only high-end gaming nowadays) you can do pretty much anything you need to do Windows-related through WINE.
- Renton, on 01/03/2009, -0/+6"Old test results
The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine."
Here's the latest test (with Wine version 1.1.11) which was upgraded to silver status from bronze.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=v ... - illepic, on 01/03/2009, -0/+6Red Alert 2 fix: Set your system to run in 16 bit color mode and watch Red Alert 2 absolutely smoke. Ubuntu normally runs in 24-bit mode by default. I had to edit xorg.conf to set it to 16 bit color mode and Red Alert 2 ran flawlessly. I actually learned this because I built an Ubuntu box for my folks. My dad said he wouldn't switch to linux unless Yuri's Revenge ran on it. Many hours later, and it runs GREAT.
Also, Red Alert 3 in Wine is really great, right out of the box. - aaron552, on 01/03/2009, -2/+7M$ has a vested interest in making their own apps not work in wine. Which is why IE7, Office 2007, Visual Studio, etc. still have flaws. The wine team are doing a great job at fixing these bugs, though.
That said, why would you *want* Visual Studio to run in wine? You want to develop windows apps *in linux*? Why not develop *linux apps* in linux and *windows apps* in windows? - UnaClocker, on 01/03/2009, -1/+6Wine Is Not an Emulator.
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -0/+5Now when will Adobe?
The CS3 interface was perfect. I hated the CS4 interface so much, I actually downgraded. - T8erT0T, on 01/03/2009, -0/+5Wine has its rally cap on.
- Smegzor, on 01/03/2009, -0/+4For stuff like that it makes better sense to run VirtualBox or VMware and run a Windows guest. I write stuff for Windows often, but I do not need (or want) to dual boot as I run web services in Linux. I can also do cool things like clone Windows and have copies taylored for different needs/clients.
- iambrucenolan, on 01/03/2009, -2/+6You can even install Microsoft Office in Wine without any hacking, it works great.
http://helpforlinux.blogspot.com/2008/12/install-m ... - aaron552, on 01/03/2009, -0/+4What audio stutter? I haven't noticed any since the ALSA audio backend started working properly. Unless you're still using the OSS backend...
- paisleyunderdog, on 01/03/2009, -0/+4But is the damn audio stutter fixed yet?!?
- inactive, on 02/25/2009, -1/+5you remind me of twitter dude
- chris062689, on 01/03/2009, -0/+3You mean PCSX2?
Have you been looking at SVN? It's booming with updates! - sqrt7744, on 01/03/2009, -0/+3before you start your app, type into a runbox (Alt-F2) "killall pulseaudio", and when your finished "pulseaudio -D"
- Sokkratez, on 01/03/2009, -3/+6Whenever I try to do anything with Wine it's slow and crashes a lot.
- bj1989, on 01/03/2009, -0/+3Those test results are BS. "Game works with few issue's" is ridiculously optimistic. If you scroll down you will face reality:
Howto:
If you're using ATI hardware there may be even worse problems since their drivers suck (for now)
* Use Wine 1.1.5 or newer with MouseWarpOverride=force. The mouse will not work properly in the menu. You will have to navigate with the keyboard after left-clicking once.
* Put d3dx9_36.dll and XINPUT1_3.dll in windows/system32. You can get them from a DLL site like dll-files.com
* Install the game and use a Crack on it
* Set OffscreenRenderingMode=fbo
* Set Shaders to High, else you will get graphical problems
* You will get extremely bright HDR. So add r_glow = 0 to My Documents/My Games/Crysis/game.cfg. Remove write-permissions to stop Crysis from butchering the file at every restart
Issues:
* FPS are even worse than on Windows (~15 FPS on a 8600GT low settings except shaders). Don't even try to run the game on hardware lower than a GF8 it will not work!
* Severe graphical corruption
* Sound may vanish under some circumstances
* Movies don't have sounds at all
* Crysis will freeze whenever it feels like it
* FPS will drop to below 1 at some resolutions
* Also FPS may suddenly drop at any point, usually accompanied by graphical corruption. Restart the game and reload the level to fix this
* The patcher will not work in Wine - indochris609, on 01/03/2009, -0/+3You're a savior. Thank you. I also went to their survey and said everything sucked about it too. We'll see what other digg users think about it.
- starsky51, on 01/03/2009, -0/+3Dugg for Matt Berry profile pic
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -1/+4Wine 1.1.12 will be a good year, especially for Bordeaux.
- Smegzor, on 01/03/2009, -1/+4I have played the demo in Wine and yes, Crysis is terribly pathetic. The only reason it is brought up IMO is its use of DirectX10.
A much better game is STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl. That game runs great, and is a better game. The sequel currently has issues, but Wine is constantly moving forward and has never failed to reward a little patience and persistence. The longest I have had to wait for a non-working game to become playable is 4 weeks. I bought BF2 a full year before it was worth playing (in Windows), so a few weeks is nothing. -
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