I'm trying to play Dragons Age 2, Tombraider 2013, Bioshock Infinite, and Alice. No matter how I set up wine I cannot play these games bcause of the lack of directx11 will to install.Can we play new games through wine or are we stuck with older directx9 games? I've searched the net and couldn't locate a real answer that I trusted. If there's no possible way to use directx11 can the wine be tricked into thinking it has done so. I do want to play my games.
Thank you,
Jonnynitro138

Dragon Age II seems to need at least Wine 1.7, but has a Gold rating with that version: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...sion&iId=22980
Tombraider 2013 only has a Bronze rating, but should work with some issues: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...estingId=82227
Bioshock Infinite will infact not work due to lack of Direct3D 10/11 support in Wine.
Alice, I can't say, do you mean American McGee's Alice or Alice Madness Returns? According to the AppDB both should work.

why not use winetricks or download dx10/11 from m$?

If you must have dx 11 support
install windows 7 , and play the Microsoft only games on win7 .

TobiSGD. Cool, thank you. This version of wine works well with Dragons Age.
Stuferus I have downloaded dx10 and 11, but wine will not use them. How would I install them with winetricks? Have you successfully installed divx10 or higher in wine?
I have a nice system and enjoy playing good games on it. I also like the freedom of linux very much and would like to not be made to use an OS just because some software company told its programers not to make their software multiple platform compatible and to let the consumer figure it out if they want to use it.
Is there a page that shows what is compatible at the moment with wine?
Thank you,
Jonnynitro138

Microsoft's DX 11 is not supported
http://www.winehq.org/winapi_stats

no Direct3d support

if you MUST play Microsoft only games
run them on a Microsoft Operating system

install win7 and use that to play the games

What is divx, and why does it not work in linux? I've looked around pretty hard and couldn't find a straight answer other than divx10 and up isn't compatible with wine.

divx ???
http://www.divx.com/

i take it you mean the MICROSOFT patented and copyrighted " Direct X "
the competitor to the GPL'ed OpenGL

Open GL -- graphics language created by SGI,nvidia and a few others ( including Microsoft for a short time, before Microsoft sued everyone for patent infringement for the few lines of code MS supplied that MS GAVE to the project )

Direct X - graphics language created by Microsoft for ONLY the Windows Operating system


wine uses OpenGL to emulate the reversed engineered Direct X code
this has to be "reversed engineered" so as not to infringe on MS's IP

if i open a terminal (using xfce), and say "winetricks dlls" a window opens and there i see "d3dx10" and "d3dx11". ill use the newest winetricks version. It seams to be installed for me. i used "winetricks win7" and "winetricks vista" to install all my dlls useing winetricks. any other app or game i installed by hand so far i play the fallout series with mods and tryed to run metro2033.. but metro is a bit laggy at the moment. ill cant use official drivers, my minecraft installation will stop working if i do. so i run (which is a bit off topic now) anything with the opensource drivers the kernel has.

greatings.

Thanks guys very informative. I'm having a hard time understanding why gaming software companies seem to only focus on the Microsoft platform. I am using Netrunner 13.12 kde 64 bit. Can this os grab these "winetricks dlls" in its terminal? I am new to netrunner I used to use opensuse kde, but I like trying new things so I dual partition Bodhi and netrunner. I had windows 7 for school, but I finally was able to completely step away from having to use its software so I removed it from my system. I laugh now; because, apparently now that I want to play some games I should have kept it as a tiny little partition until another solution presented itself for linux.
Thank you
Jonnynitro138