i agree, if they dont port the game over to linux why run a server? Wrong. Most linux servers are far supurb compared to generic windows servers. People put too much crap on windows and expect it to run. While this is done on linux, most people with *SERIOUS* bandwidth to run a server know what there doing. If all servers for the more/most popular games were all on windows.. do you think they would stay the most popular?

Im personally tired of windows. None of my crap works anymore, my computer crashes from inconsistency from the ram and the video card. But then again linux is a pain in the butt to setup to get everything to work *right*.

I personally think the 5$/month is one of the best things ive paid for in quite a while. Although it doesnt support most of my games, it does support quite a few of them. Which is better then booting up into windows then crashing as soon as im killing..who? i dont know it crashed...again, while im not downing windows. There wont be a standard linux port for alot of games. As for them being 'reduced or free'. Very doubtfull, you want the port.. they will eventually port it but at a MUCH higher cost. Look at the sims linux edition. It started at what... 39.99 or 49.99.(i think dont quote me). but i almost guarantee they will make sure the ymake a pretty penny off of each port they do.

Wine "whatever.exe" = whereas somethingrather.exe? like the program name or game title? e.g. (or i.g.); wine setup.exe?

After wine is installed and set up correctly (fake Windoze drive and all... ) you type:

wine setup.exe

in the directory the setup program file is located to set up.

You type:

wine programname.exe

to launch the program from it's location in the fake windoze drive.

If you are using winex, then substitute winex or winex3 for the wine command...

OH JOY!! I am loving Linux even more! I had to figure out what command to start wine (I have NO programming knowledge whatsoever) which was - "wine start [ option] directory.exe"
this is so cool!
Now one other thing came up; when the ID screen comes up I cannot put my name in there. How do I?

You need a little background on Linux/Unix commands...

It's not like programming or anything. It's more like the old DOS commands.
After you start a terminal session, you change directories using the change directory command:

cd /directory/subdirectory/subsubdirectory


Or you do a couple of them to get where you want...

cd directory
cd subdirectory
cd subsubdirectory

...where directory, subdirectory, and subsubdirectory are the names of those directories

To get to your CDROM drive, it's usually:

cd /mnt/cdrom

To get to your personal subdirectory it's:

cd /home/youraccountname

to get to transgaming's (if using TransGaming's WineX) subdirectory, it's:

cd TransGaming_Drive

... from within your account.

When you are at your CDROM drive and find out what the install program is called you type:

wine gamessetupprogram.exe

or

winex gamessetupprogram.exe

or

winex3 gamessetupprogram.exe

You must change to the fake windows drive directory to find where your program was installed and then type the command to launch the program's executable,... usually:

wine gamename.exe

or

winex gamename.exe

or

winex3 gamename.exe

Does that help???


Word of advice:
If you are having trouble setting up wine, try Subscribing to TransGaming's WineX. It's much easier to get going...

i tried to run q3 under wine .It loads but shows some error msg about screen color depth insufficient .On override screen goes blank. ... please help ."Newbie"

why use wine to run q3 when there is a linux native port? if you have the windoze version of quake3, just download the linux q3 point release 1.32b, then when thats done, copy your pak0.pk3 off the q3 cdrom into /where/your/q3/directory/is/baseq3.

Thanks for your reply .I was playing with wine & i just wated to know what the problem with color depth was .

can anyone answer my question as to how I can type in my ID in Starcraft? When I get to that screen and type like crazy... it only shows up on my terminal, not on the "create ID" screen.

with wine it can be funny, you might have to play with the config file a little bit. I had a similar problem how my mouse and my keyboard would not work with the wine app. I think i just reinstalled a later version of wine and it fixed the problem. Make sure in the config you have the doublebuffer set properly, if not it will be choppy