Win4lin Performance (was: another windoze emulator)

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

The performance is good.  Games, however, are another ball o' wax. 
Windows uses DirectX (?) to do funky stuff with writing directly to video
memory and the like -- this is pretty un-portable.  I know that there are
parties trying to make it work, but I have no idea where they are in the
process.     In a nutshell: if your games require DirectX, don't even
bother.  (Note: last time I used Win4Lin was 3.x; for all I know 4.x has
remedied this.)

-Ken

> Mandatory Tangent Post:
>
> Anyone w/ direct experience using win4lin to run W9x games? I'm not too
> interested in the latest & greatest shooters. I'm mostly a
> strategy/rts/city-builder addict (and many of the ones I like are 1+ years
> old), so I don't care if it can throw 3 billion frames / second. However,
> I do like smooth graphics under those games, and a responsive interface is
> critical.  Games are one of the main reasons I keep a "Wintendo"
> installation of W98 on my machine.
>
> As example, some of the ones keeping me mostly distracted are
> MechCommander, Pharaoh, Star Fleet Command & Stronghold
>
> -Lawrence
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf at blu.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 2:30 PM
> To: discuss at gnhlug.org
> Subject: Re: another windoze emulator
>
>
> Technically it is, but it is limited to running a single copy of Windows
> 9x. (Of course, some of us may not consider Windows 9x and operating
> system).
> Win4Lin does a pretty decent job by allowing the user to run a complete
> copy of Windows9x. One advantage of this over WINE (and CrossoverOffice)
> is
> that virtually every Windoz program can run with very few exceptions.
> Another advantage of this over VMWare (other than cost) is that the
> Windows
> file system is simply a subdirectory in your Linux native file system.
> Performance is better than VMWare (although VMWare is the better product).
>
> Jon Hall wrote:
>> Win4Lin is not a virtual machine.....you cannot run another operating
>> system on top of it the way you can with VMware.
>
> --
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
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