KaiZ51

How much FPS are you getting, on which games, and with what PC specs?
I'm looking to trying it but I want to know first if it will be good enough for me.

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hometoast

And add to that... does in-game voice chat work for steam-based games?

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Kernel Klink

I've seen some folks get some pretty good FPS on games that are supported well, the only problem is that not many games are really supported that well. In my opinion computers are for computing, wanna play games? Buy an Xbox 360

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NCspecV81

GTHO with that trash.

purdueman

If you truly want to play game just use Windows. WINE is not the ultimate solution for all games. For the games WINE supports it usually works very well without much of a performance hit, sometimes it works better. Here is where you can check how well WINE supports the game you are looking at.

http://appdb.winehq.org/

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-iceblade^

i agree. wine is not the be all end all for games, it is not as great as it initially seems and you have to put up with quite a few quirks if you want to game quite often. imo it's easier to just reboot and go into windows for gaming.

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parityboy

@ thread

Why not answer the OP's question?

@OP

I used WINE to play WoW (until my machine died), running on Gentoo. I was getting low framerates - 20FPS average - but that's probably because I was running a 7800GS BLISS, paired up with dual P4 Xeons.

Also, I was using the OpenGL renderer of WoW, which was much faster and smoother than going through the Direct3D->OpenGL translation layer. I would wager that due to the translation layer, you can probably make up the difference in hardware.

I've also run WoW on a more modern Windows laptop and gotten similar performance - I think with WoW at least, Windows and Linux + WINE performance are on par.

I don't know about voice chat in Steam, but I do know that the in-game chat in WoW worked, as did the Windows clients for Ventrillo and TeamSpeak.

gonX

WINE should be on par (sometimes slower) with Windows when it comes to 3D rendering. I/O intensive tasks could potentially be faster (because of the clearly superior I/O scheduling model of Linux). CPU tasks should be about the same unless you do extensive tweaking of CFS (the CPU Scheduler of Linux).

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hometoast

Thanks. I'd guess if vent and TS work, steam voice chat should.

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KaiZ51

Thanks guys. I'm going to think about this. Maybe it's not worth the trouble, even though I hate the idea of switching OS just to do gaming...

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