I've experienced issues running Windows games that use weird and wonderful copy protection mechanisms, a lot of which don't seem to be documented or understood. Such a frustration, when you are the owner of a legitimate, full-priced, physical copy of the game!

[ 2015-12-15 10:22:48Z ] 👍 0

+Red Xanadu DRM techniques are frustrating. It wouldn't be a problem if it prevented piracy and worked on the machine you are trying to use the content on. Even early Windows 10 users reported that the Windows 10 DRM feature interfered with peoples games that had some form of DRM (Gta iv for example). It isn't working game companies.

[ 2014-12-27 03:33:44Z ] 👍 0

MrLoggfreak Must confess, I had to do that when I was still using Windows as my primary OS. More than once... DRM? should be DRI, Digital Rights Irony!

[ 2014-12-18 21:17:14Z ] 👍 0

purchase game legitimately download the same game on piratebay and install that version instead :p

Wine can come in quiet handy sometimes. However, I prefer not to use it, as it sends a signal to game developers, that they don't need to make a native port for Linux. Of course old with games, that you wouldn't expect on Linux forever - simply because it's so old - Wine is a great tool. Lately I played Hitman 2 and Hitman 3 again, using "native" wine without any problems whatsoever. Normally old games also tend to be the easiest games to setup. Probably because they use old - and today - well tested code, and therefore is simpler for wine to run...?

[ 2015-12-15 10:19:21Z ] 👍 0

+Troels Blicher Petersen Although if enough people run windows in a virtual machine on Linux not only do they seem to report better performance of games when passing through a graphics card to the windows virtual machine than running windows on the bare metal but also Microsoft added in a checking feature that checks to see if the OS is inside a virtual machine which automatically sends a message to Microsoft and the developers of games and applications for windows that their tricks of windows only is not working.

I would tend to agree with what you said about running games from Steam vs GoG in WINE... whether it is the DRM or just the fact that the more things you have to get working in a single WINE prefix the more chances for conflicts, well, that would take a better trained and more patient user than myself. Alas, I must admit, while I have gotten quite a few things working through either WINE alone or with the help of POL... the fact that the hassle is faced anew with each piece of software pushed me to the greater (if less painful) of two evils, and I now have a dual boot with Win7 which I basically use exclusively as a gaming partition. However, I will also say that this solution is one I reserve (almost) exclusively for things I got my hands on before I started using Linux. So, for the time being, I'm only buying things once they have official Linux support of some kind. I may wind up making some very specific exceptions if there  just isn't an alternative, but there's enough out there that does have Linux support to keep me happy for quite a while.

Quick question can windows games be played on pure steam OS?

[ 2016-02-22 11:00:25Z ] 👍 0

ShuShaeShen Yeah I hope so. I wanna start developing linux applications so that I do have another career path but the only experience coding wise I have is visual basic, a little java in bluej and html/html5 on a windows computer. Tbh I did try linux gaming but using wine was a bad experience because like you say individual developers are part to blame not to mention any *cough*Rockstar*cough* *cough*Gta iv*cough* so I had to go back to windows but hopefully I will get hold of another ssd at some point and dual boot. At the minute I am going to try linux in a vm since I do have a six core cpu and 8gigs of ram.

[ 2016-01-07 21:48:19Z ] 👍 0

Clarence Washington IV Yeah that is what I don't get. I suppose the support for the drivers of mainly graphics cards aren't the best in linux for gaming and Microsoft like to be a monopoly with their direct x

[ 2015-12-16 22:13:56Z ] 👍 0

+The Linux Tinker there was a comparison of Linux vs Windows gaming performance check. Why is there a dramatic drop in performance?

[ 2015-12-15 10:15:31Z ] 👍 0

+Clarence Washington IV Short answer is no. Developers aren't concentrated on Linux versions of their games and that is sad since steam OS could have been better than its current state.

[ 2015-07-26 02:58:44Z ] 👍 0

I don't think so

I like to play World of Warcraft and on Windows 7 it runs fairly smooth but on Linux/Wine it is a lot more laggy, is there something I'm missing? Is there something I can do to reduce lag on wine?

[ 2015-12-15 10:13:58Z ] 👍 0

+alex Judo Never heard of lag before in games running under wine since Wine is not an emulator. What are your system specifications?

Whoever's playing that Wolfenstein HD can't aim for shit. That or he's using a controller.

[ 2017-04-11 02:59:00Z ] 👍 0

Or both

It's complicated wish it worked better

You can install fucking Sony Vegas on PlayOnLinux :D I installed Steam on Wine and Counter Strike worked perfectly

[ 2016-09-29 19:38:30Z ] 👍 0

***** it isnt listed for me

[ 2016-09-29 12:57:00Z ] 👍 0

***** yes but not 1.6 :)

You look like every history professor I've ever met.

With Microsoft taking a massive hard line position (because they are preparing for the TPP trade agreement when Hillary is done rigging the election). Microsoft is going to force window 10 on us no matter what, and they do not care and will hold out on a lot of new tech to make us use it! Already Intel and AMD is cow tailing down to making there next chips only to be used on Windows 10! We are going to have a battle of willpower on who will cave first us the consumers who will have to allow the extreme spying on our lives in order to use the next gen technologies across the board, or take a stand and find a way to make Linix the next gen tech! we have been looking at Linix all wrong, trying to make it play nice with companies who do not want to play nice! It is time for this of us talented programmers to developer for Linix directly and only (like the wanna be wolfenstien game). Why do we have to keep playing the rebooted games of Halo, Gears of War, and GTA. Many of the game developers have stabbed us all in the back over and over how many of the same scenes in Call of Duty are we going to put up with? Why not make a game ingine for Linix only, why not make a linix only network and computing world like Apple has done? Hell for that, why not make computer parts for linix only? Make our own CPU's and video cards? The world is about to open for us if we can learn to close the old world of Microsoft!

[ 2017-07-04 21:11:44Z ] 👍 0

Jerry Coverstone for Senate If a game that someone wants to play was built specifically for a Windows or Mac system then we have to figure out a way to play it on Linux if that is our only operating system. You can develop future games for Linux only, and I wholly support your efforts to both or either do that yourself or to encourage others do it, but for those of us who want to play particular games, the issue of building games specifically for Linux doesn't really apply. We need ways to make THOSE games work on our chosen, often overlooked operating system.

[ 2016-09-16 04:04:04Z ] 👍 6

it's linux not linix...

now we have kvm virtual machines or unraid and gpu pass threw in 2016 :D

Will it work with Empire Earth and/or Empires: Dawn of the Modern World?

Are these game work with raspbian(Debian)?

Hmm wine, W.I.N.E wine is not an emulator omg

PlayOnLinux is a bad application, though I tried it only briefly. (Typing winecfg into the terminal is good enough.) 1. From what I could tell, PlayonLinux encouraged installing the Windows version of Steam for many games, and since there is a Linux version of Steam, that may lead to confusion. 2. It installs games in separate partitions(?), which is excessive and unnecessary. 3. If you uninstall PlayOnLinux, Wine may well be corrupted on your system. 4. PlayOnL may make special required configuration (for some programs) more difficult. The skills used to get programs working with regular Wine are not extraordinary - knowledge of files, permissions, and file system structures. And you should research whether a program will work or not at WineHQ. If an application is a freebie that does not use a key, you might be able to just "cut-and-paste" it into the C: drive created by Wine. Here's an Example: I could not get the free and popular MT4 (or MT5) program to install with Wine the advised way using an installer. (The install failed because it wants you to login or create an account, but it could not connect.) MT appears to be one program which designers have deliberately made impossible to use on Linux. So just take a Windows PC with MT4 installed on it and go to the program file folder of MT4 and copy everything in it - config, history, logs, MQL4, profiles, Sounds, templates, tester, terminal.exe. Bring these over to Linux by pasting them in a folder on your Wine drive_c, preferably in a program_files folder. So my files are in: "/home/LM_User/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/MT4". Then you just run terminal.exe to run Metatrader every time. It isn't perfect, but is about 95% as good as on Windows

When did we can play android game on linux

Please, make a video series or tutorial on how to game on linux and what to download to play windows games on a completely pre-installed Linux on a new laptop or pc.

Wine is mostly crap.

[ 2020-05-22 15:07:05Z ] 👍 0

@@gamingonlinux Well I have to admit I haven't used it for well over a year and was very disappointed with it way back then. With all due apologies it's not something I really want to try again. I take your point about steam tho'.

[ 2020-05-22 14:48:14Z ] 👍 0

This is a many year old video, and things have changed. Wine now powers Steam Play, it's definitely not "mostly crap".