Happy Medium

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
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