@Shonumi & AnyOldName3:
Sorry, I realize I was not explaining myself very well. Though given you're mods/admins with expertise level already (or so I guess) I strongly believed I could obviate some things.
I indeed use Linux much more often than Windows, in fact I use Linux for my ordinary things overall and gaming when possible (i.e., if Wine supports the game or application at least with a Gold rating). I practically keep Windows for those things Wine cannot handle very well or nothing at all. That's why I said I was Linux user and that I'd set it as host system (currently I'm still with dual-boot just in case remind is needed).
I've indeed heard about CrossOver. What I understand is that Wine is in fact maintained in some way by their servers, so they are roughly the "same" people but CorssOver is the proprietary, "plus" or "pro", non-free division whereas Wine is the free one (which I've used since a while ago already). But right now I cannot afford it and that's why I wanted to maintain hope on a virtualized Windows, besides I don't know how it'd work with emulators such as Dolphin itself or PCSX2.
Last time I ran Dolphin natively on Linux (openSUSE) maybe 2 years ago, it ran horribly slower than Windows. While New Super Mario Bros and Super Smash Bros Melee ran perfectly on Windows, they ran close to unplayable on Linux. It was rumored OpenGL had become very slow unlike DirectX. Don't know if the situation changed...
And PCSX2 doesn't even run on 64 bit Linux systems, and I use this one.
Hope all of this helps clarifying things and see if your answers are kept or modified a bit...
Though I don't get very well what you mean with CrossOver being Wine with steroids. Does it have better or wider compatibility than Wine, in terms of supported applications/games?
I didn't know VMWare Player was free. I eventually did find the downloads site for Player, but their website isn't that easy to navigate...
So could you mean VMWare Player has better hardware acceleration support? Could it be at least close to what I pretend? And I didn't understand what is it that according to you doesn't run on Linux...
@410172:
Putting virtualization topic briefly apart, I can indeed say some old games have or can have issues running on recent Windows versions and recent drivers. I remember I had problems few years ago running Prince of Persia: The Warrior Within on a laptop with Windows Vista, Core 2 Duo 2 GHz, and a Nvidia 8600m GT. No lag, but it ran smoothly slow, while it ran well on another rig with Windows XP, Pentium 4, and a crappy ATI card of which model I don't remember.
Sorry, I realize I was not explaining myself very well. Though given you're mods/admins with expertise level already (or so I guess) I strongly believed I could obviate some things.
I indeed use Linux much more often than Windows, in fact I use Linux for my ordinary things overall and gaming when possible (i.e., if Wine supports the game or application at least with a Gold rating). I practically keep Windows for those things Wine cannot handle very well or nothing at all. That's why I said I was Linux user and that I'd set it as host system (currently I'm still with dual-boot just in case remind is needed).
I've indeed heard about CrossOver. What I understand is that Wine is in fact maintained in some way by their servers, so they are roughly the "same" people but CorssOver is the proprietary, "plus" or "pro", non-free division whereas Wine is the free one (which I've used since a while ago already). But right now I cannot afford it and that's why I wanted to maintain hope on a virtualized Windows, besides I don't know how it'd work with emulators such as Dolphin itself or PCSX2.
Last time I ran Dolphin natively on Linux (openSUSE) maybe 2 years ago, it ran horribly slower than Windows. While New Super Mario Bros and Super Smash Bros Melee ran perfectly on Windows, they ran close to unplayable on Linux. It was rumored OpenGL had become very slow unlike DirectX. Don't know if the situation changed...
And PCSX2 doesn't even run on 64 bit Linux systems, and I use this one.
Hope all of this helps clarifying things and see if your answers are kept or modified a bit...
Though I don't get very well what you mean with CrossOver being Wine with steroids. Does it have better or wider compatibility than Wine, in terms of supported applications/games?
(06-08-2014, 10:14 PM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: On the subject of hardware acceleration, I'm pretty sure VMWare have pretty much got it sorted out for DirectX and OpenGL (although not necessarily the latest version of each), but I don't think anything of theirs runs on linux.
I didn't know VMWare Player was free. I eventually did find the downloads site for Player, but their website isn't that easy to navigate...
So could you mean VMWare Player has better hardware acceleration support? Could it be at least close to what I pretend? And I didn't understand what is it that according to you doesn't run on Linux...
@410172:
Putting virtualization topic briefly apart, I can indeed say some old games have or can have issues running on recent Windows versions and recent drivers. I remember I had problems few years ago running Prince of Persia: The Warrior Within on a laptop with Windows Vista, Core 2 Duo 2 GHz, and a Nvidia 8600m GT. No lag, but it ran smoothly slow, while it ran well on another rig with Windows XP, Pentium 4, and a crappy ATI card of which model I don't remember.