<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div>I may have gotten the wrong end of the stick here, but this article<br>
seems to be saying that Wine runs games designed for XP better than<br>Vista. The Vista team took the opportunity to ditch a shed load of<br>legacy code, code which is in XP and harks back the the 16 bit days.<br>Wine, if you get right down to it, is a (very good) XP emulator. So this<br>
article says, Vista (minus a lot of XP code) doesn't run games designed<br>for XP as well as an XP emulator does. Umm, well no, I'm sure it<br>doesn't; to be honest I'd be surprised if it did, wouldn't you?<br>
<br>Add the fact that there are many commenters that say the games work just<br>fine under Vista for them, and it begins to look like there's not much<br>actual insight in this article.<br><br>Of course, I could have gotten the wrong end of the stick.<br>
<br>--<br>Cheers,<br>Gary<br><a href="http://www.garyshort.org" target="_blank">http://www.garyshort.org</a><br></blockquote><div><br>admittedly the article is not the most accurate depiction of gaming on linux or vista. although it is one users experience.<br>
<br>i think the question realy is : What experience have other users had of gaming on linux, with respect to windows or not ? <br></div></div><br>as W.I.N.E. ( Windows Is Not Emulated ) is a project to write its own libraries for windows programs there is scope for comparison. This may be better suited to comparison with Win XP. <br>
<br>as far as vista having less legacy code and hence less support for older games. I believe this is a big mistake for M$ as many gamers have large collections of older games they continue to play again and again.<br><br>
There have been many complaints in many different forums sighting vistas incompatibility with even some of the latest games.<br clear="all"><br>As i said earlier, my interest is not vistas gaming capability but in linux's ability.<br>
<br>Azmodie<br>-- <br>Umbrella Corporation :-<br>"They are the fear within all of that there is a company. The Corporation controlling everything that is Umbrella.<br>A combination of Microsoft and the US Military. At some level there is a board of directors who meet once a<br>
month and decide all of our fates."<br>-- Jeremy Bolt - Producer - Resident Evil : Apocalypse