Review of Linux Gaming Using WineX 2.0

Ceyx writes "Toms Hardware ist running an Interesting review of DirectX Gaming under Linux using WineX. An interesting point is that the native Quake3 Arena runs faster with Linux then with windows." I had the good luck to play Jedi Knight Outcast and Return To Castle Wolfenstein at my friend's house, and it was really pretty good. The numbers show just how good the Linux drivers from nVidia are, so mad props to Mark V and his co-workers ...

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[prockcore]

Someone please explain why you would play Return to Castle Wolfenstein with WineX when there is a native linux version? (Not to mention the fact that the linux version is ahead of the Windows version in terms of patches and bug fixes)

Just don't use SCSI

[Wee]

WineX does run really well. I've been a subscriber for a while now, and it shows real promise. But be warned: if you have a SCSI CD drive, you will have problems, and almost certainly will not be able to play many newwer games. The latest version claims to support SCSCI drives better than the previous version (ie, lack of support for SCSI drives was a known problem), but I've had no better results with it than any other release.

I have a system which is purely SCSI (U2W/lvd, in fact). Both of my disc drives are made by Plextor -- hardly unknown drives -- and are over two and a half years old. They are well supported by anybody's standards. Yet neither will work with WineX. I get errors with CD protection schemes, errors trying to read the drives, errors in the games saying the disc can't be found, etc. This is with my Plextor CD-R and CD-ROM drives. I've even tried mounting ISO images of the game CDs via the loopback with no luck.

If you have IDE CD drives, then feel free to get a subscription and/or download WineX. If you have a SCSI system then you shouldn't bother with WineX -- unless you get a subscription and then vote for SCSI support. Otherwise just dual boot into Windows (or forego games). IMO, the lack of support for SCSI systems is enough to make me wish I hadn't subscribed (or had been able to find the issue mentioned somewhere on the Transgaming site last October when I signed up).

-B