Timeline for Is it possible to play games that run off of Steam, on a Linux or Unix-based OS (other than Mac OSX)?
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| Jul 30, 2015 at 14:05 | comment | added | Shahbaz | Wine doesn't emulate windows. It translates function calls. The performance decrease if existent is really not because of wine itself. Probably the biggest performance problem is running directx-only applications, which means the commands may not perfectly translate to opengl. If the game has an opengl engine, and you try running it with opengl in windows, or under wine on the same computer, you really should be getting the same performance out of it. | |
| Feb 7, 2012 at 3:57 | comment | added | gamecoder | @-Nate-Koppenhaver exactly! . . . . | |
| Feb 7, 2012 at 3:31 | comment | added | Nate Koppenhaver | @gameaddict it does depend on the game, but there's about a 50% chance it won't work (for example, DOOM Legacy won't work right because of rendering issues) and if you would be using Linux only for a performance increase, running through an emulator kinda cancels that out | |
| Feb 6, 2012 at 23:42 | vote | accept | gamecoder | ||
| Feb 6, 2012 at 4:00 | history | answered | Nate Koppenhaver | CC BY-SA 3.0 |