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Wine is a program that allows you to run windows programs on linux type OSes. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 because I am too cheap to buy Windows. I was having trouble getting World of Warcraft (might as well play since I still have 5 days left) running. It was because the drivers that Ubuntu uses for my Intel graphics card don't work well with OpenGL (Which is kinda like the Ubuntu Directx). So when I tried running WoW directly through OpenGL it would give me an error message and wine would crash. When running it with Directx through wine (Using wine to run wine O_O) it was terribly slow because running it in Directx mode still goes through OpenGL. So to fix my problem I made it so that wine could not access any of the advanced shader and rendering options so I could only run WoW on the lowest setting (Which is what I did on windows anyway). Now it performs about as well as when it was on windows except it takes a minute or two to load player models when I enter dungeons or logon. So hopefully I will be able to play Diablo when that comes out in 5 days and if not ima RAGE!!!!!
Oh btw I am back :D

Wine is a program that allows you to run windows programs on linux type OSes. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 because I am too cheap to buy Windows. I was having trouble getting World of Warcraft (might as well play since I still have 5 days left) running. It was because the drivers that Ubuntu uses for my Intel graphics card don't work well with OpenGL (Which is kinda like the Ubuntu Directx). So when I tried running WoW directly through OpenGL it would give me an error message and wine would crash. When running it with Directx through wine (Using wine to run wine O_O) it was terribly slow because running it in Directx mode still goes through OpenGL. So to fix my problem I made it so that wine could not access any of the advanced shader and rendering options so I could only run WoW on the lowest setting (Which is what I did on windows anyway). Now it performs about as well as when it was on windows except it takes a minute or two to load player models when I enter dungeons or logon. So hopefully I will be able to play Diablo when that comes out in 5 days and if not ima RAGE!!!!!
Oh btw I am back :D

Lol Wait.... why not just buy something with a Windows OS in the first place, if that's what you want to use? >_<

My computer's hard drive was broken by my roommate. So I had him buy me a nicer one. Being a brand new hard drive it didnt have windows on it. Windows costs 70 or 80 dollars or so. Instead of buying it I just decided to use Ubuntu.

Ohhhhhh ok. That makes sense lol I thought you bought a MAC or something and wanted Windows :P

I would never buy a Mac and I don't really want Windows. But I wish my graphics card worked with wine -_-

I dont like Mac's. Had to use one at work and was not a fan, I must say.

I have just started to play Arma 2 on nultiplayer, cant figure out why I didnt do it earlier, its addictive :p

That's how I feel about TF2 :P

lol a mod has made Arma 2 sales increase up to top 5 on steam :p