Yes, YAWGRAWIL (Yet Another Windows Game Running Atop Wine In Linux). Oblivion was created by “Bethesda” and “2K” game companies. Bethesda went onto create “Fallout 3″ and 2K (Boston/Australia) made “Bioshock” . Two games you can’t play in linux until Wine catches up.. However, Oblivion runs in Wine on Linux now.. And keeping to how I like to do things I’m going to complete the whole game in Linux. Not to prove Linux is better or anything, but to prove that it can be done in Linux….
Ok Im officially impressed, I really wanna try this out!
I don’t have those specs.. I’m sure it was just a difference of 10fps with or without.. The frame rate I set screencasting at is 15fps, so I’d guess 25fps without screencasting. Note this is a older card I don’t use on my 2.8 Ghz Pentium D. My new machine uses the 9600, my old uses a 9800.. So I could try Oblivion on the new, but it’s using a 4.2 Ghz Pentium-D Extreme Edition, the last of the Intel Netburst line. And my memory is overclocked to 1Ghz. FSB is 800Mhz too. Results may vary.
What was the average FPS with and without screencasting? Also noticed any artifacts?
IF you look in the tags you will see..
Pentium D 2.8 Ghz, 8.10 Ubuntu, 9800 GT graphics card.. Actually the graphics card makes little difference, it will look this good even on a 9600.. Win isn’t really nay better than windows, because it is a windows approximation, and implementation of the Windows API, so Wine works in place of windows.. The downside is the frame rate and quality is not comaprable to windows, the upside is you don’t have to buy windows or reinstall apps after a OS upgrade.
what r the pc specs?
wow 57.52 minuts cool
watch the hoe video
Wine is what I used to play these games, and Wine is a partial implementation of the Windows API, but it either substitutes linux system or library calls, or provides custom functions to make up for what linux doesn’t have. Given that fact, Wine is friggin amazing. However, windows is faster for games cause it’s not having to do what wine is.
Now when a game is made to run on Linux, like Quake Wars or Prey, then it runs just as fast. John Carmack makes games with OpenGL, has since Quake.
This truly is a nice video you did here & I love Linux. However, judging by your comments, it appears that Linux and/or Ubuntu cannot even hold a candle to gaming on a Windows platform. Is this what you’re trying to say? I am in no way a Windows fan, I just want to know what the best alternative for pc gaming is! Ubuntu is what I love, but I’ve only used it at work. How does it hold up at home & is it as good for gaming as it is for normal, everyday work & play?
no,not even close,but some games do work fine
Oblivion in wine is not playable with graphics full up, you have to reduce it a bit, but I’ve got it to the point that its interactive enough to be playable.. Just after playing Fallout 3, Oblivion is rather boring. But now that I’ve played Anchorage/Pitt add on (which sucks aside from getting the gauss gun, metal blaster and mauler, and such).. I finished Pitt in about 6 hours and Anchorage in about 3 hours. What a waste of money. I prefer to be in Ubuntu, Windows has many security holes.
BTW, if you are on 2142, my name is vangoghs knife, I tend to play on wck and tbg.. When I play commander, I usually get golds and silvers. My career points are something like 91500 right now. I used to play with Tactical Gamer, and was good enough as commander the TG guys would get on my side, no matter what side I played. I’ve also mastered Quake Wars somewhat.. I’ve played Fallout 3 twice, good and bad, same with Bioshock. On wine I’ve pretty much completed Flatout 2.. It’s excellent!
No, of course not, cause wine is translating calls to linux calls, there will always be lag.. I personally play games in XP.. I’m just pointing out that there is nothing special about Windows.. If you compiled games to work on linux, it would be the same. The advantage with wine over windows is you never have to reinstall the games, you can back them up and store them away.. Whereas in Windows if you update the machine, you have to track down the CDROM’s and reinstall the games.
okey, but can I play Oblivion in the highest graphics in Wine without having it laggy, when I can do it in Windows?
Well Quake Wars is fun, and you’ll love playing strogg, setting fire to the americans with a good ol’ violator beacon.. And that is a native Linux game, even has VOIP support. I got to be good enough that I could unbalance a game, and imagine the disturbed look on people’s faces when I say “I’m on linux”.. Then you hear someone say “linux is for virgins”. I say, okay “I’ll knock you up with a with a well placed violator next game, virgin”. BTW you can install directx 9.0c on wine.
Does Wine work as good as DirectX? Cause I would love to have a first FUN game at Ubuntu
If patents really worked, Microsoft wouldn’t have a majority of the computer market. Patents are not used to allow innovators to profit from their ideas, patents are for large corporations to control the progression of technology. Microsoft is living proof of that.. Linux is only an embodiment of the disgust that people have for this company that just holds back innovation for its own profit.
Also, who came up with the functionality to identify document changes, so as to point out document modifications. Microsoft? No. Can someone trace the lineage of the Unix command “Diff” for me? Go into linux, take any two files, type “diff file1 file2″. It will point out, quite accurately, in a special language the differences between the two files. I’m sure this was on Unix way back into the 70s. Microsoft just takes old technology and rearranges it into another form and tries to own it.
Microsoft did not create the first word processor.. Neither did Word Perfect, but they dominated the market. Visicalc made the first spreadsheet, and it’s makers didn’t profit from it.. Microsoft didn’t make the first database, dbase did (?? or was it oracle?). Microsoft didn’t make the first desktop publisher.. They didn’t even make the first OS, Unix has surely had a greater influence on OS design than Microsoft. Microsoft just lies to people and hijack markets.. See “Microsoft vs Sun”.
Oh, Microsoft sold software first. Okay. Microsoft did away with IBM’s arrogance. But, Microsoft took their place. And every idea Bill Gates has of his own doesn’t really go anywhere.. All he’s successfully been able to do is keep the originators from gaining market share. Watch the movies “Revolution OS” and “Triumph of the Nerds”, they are both on netflix. I think somewhere, maybe “nerds”, Visicalc’s makers speak of a panel they shared with bill that turned into a sales pitch for Microsoft.
It’s like this.. Who had email first, Windows or Unix?
Who had ftp first, windows or Unix?
Who had tcp/ip support first…. Unix.
Who had internetworked chat first? … Unix.
Who had GUI’s first? Smalltalk , and not only a GUI it’s a language.
Who had multi-user games first on the Internet? I’m pretty sure it was Unix. Recall “MUDS”.. I was Mudding in 1991.
See how many things you can think of that Microsoft had first.. Then go look at the wikipedia page.. Microsoft is unoriginal.
I have a feeling that eventually someone will make their own implementation of DirectX in wine, and it will run a lot faster because part of the problem could be the translation of the data types between the two environments.. Microsoft, I know, deliberately makes their stuff different, so that its extra hard for developers to maintain compatibility between the two implementations.. If they ever adopted an open standard, it would be the end of Microsoft because they don’t really innovate.
Yeahm shadows work I just turn them off.. In oblivion there is internal and external.. I think it supports self shadowing.. I think the shadows are achieved as a side effect of z buffering. I can’t really imagine what DirectX 10 could do that OpenGL can’t, I mean they both use the same hardware. I think the best part about all of this is it points out that if Wine can run even 10% of the windows programs, how unique and special is windows really? You have to wonder.
It looks alot like in Windows. Does it run faster with the newer WINE?
It’s so awesome how wine emulates DirectX with OpenGL and it looks the same for my eyes, even being so slow…
Do shadows work with WINE?
BTW it’s ubuntu not unbuntu. It’s an African word meaning something like “philanthropy”, there is a video that comes on the disk of Nelson Mandela pronouncing the word and explaining what it means, but I doubt he’s involved with canonical. You can probably find the same video on youtube.