Unfortunately, there isnt one for serious gamers. I am a bf1942 player, and in a clan that competes in the OGL and TWL, www.nsfdesertcombat.com. Basicly, I have looked at every option, the only hope quite honistly is wine / winex as they are the only ones that have the potential to give you the speed. So I dualboot, have one hd 15 gigs for windows to just play bf1942. And linux on my 30 gig hd and I use that for everything else. I am a network admin, so I really dont have much use for windows outside of bf1942 so that combo makes this subject very polarized and black and white for me. Unfortunate :(. On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 18:24, Jason Pfingstmann wrote: > No, this post is not about a Joyous Psychic. ;) > > I am trying to reach a happy medium between Windows and Linux. I like to > game and I do, like many others, require the use of Windows software > frequently and with 100% compatibility - more than wine could provide. I > love Linux's stability and ability to control the system, ease of use, > etc, etc... I need DirectX capabilities for games and don't want to have > to reboot to play games. On the other hand I would like Linux stability > and low overhead when I don't want to run Windows apps. The only solution > I have come up with that sacrifices some stability is to run my Gentoo > install through VMWare. This works fine, but the constant "You must > reboot your computer..blah..blah..blah" in Windows makes this arrangement > impractical. So I guess my question is this, is there any way to run > Windows over Linux and still have DirectX capability (not to mention > decent speed for gaming)? VMWare and Win4Lin both strike out in this > field. WineX is a "kludge" of a program with infrequent updates compared > to 99% of Linux software (not worth the $5/month subscription if you ask > me) - not to mention incompatible with 75% of the games I play. > > So, I'm sure that many other Linux users have had the same dilemma and > have hopefully found a happy medium. I would like to hear any ideas you > have and what solution others have come up with. > > Jason Pfingstmann > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Entelin