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Esa-Petteri on 09 April 2009
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WereKitten said:
Esa-Petteri said:
WereKitten said:
Esa-Petteri said:

Aims but fails miserably. Let me know when you can run GTA IV on wine and please tell me how you made it happen. :)

 

One could also say that Windows PCs failed miserably to run Crysis 90% of the time when it came out ;) Things get better.

PS: Sorry, not a GTA lover here... I was satisfied the day I got HL2 working, and that happened a long time ago. After that, not much Wine tinkering for me.

 

 

So you can run a game from... 2004 on wine and you say that "this game will run on wine"? Wow.

Way to - repeatedly - miss the point.

My point was that having the Windows logo on the box of a game does not imply you'll have to use a MS OS to run it. Any sufficiently updated Wine implementation will work. It was the answer to the idea that it is a "MS exclusive because you need Windows to run it". That makes as much sense as saying that any game relying on your NVIDIA card drivers' OpenGL implementation is a "NVIDIA exclusive".

Will this game work on Wine when it comes out? I don't know, we'll have to try it. Will it work eventually? Pretty sure it will, unless the whole Wine project disappears in a black hole.

In few years, you don't need a wii to run wii games. So those obviously aren't exclusive either? After all, with a little tweaking and compromises those games will eventually run on an emulator.

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Yeahyeah, "wine is not an emulator".