Playing DX10 Windows Games

Is there a way to play dx10 win games like Crysis or NFS Undercover, etc on ubuntu? Haven't tried using wine to play this "heavy" games, but i doubt it will go well (afraid to try).

Anybody successfully do it?

If current ubuntu still can't do it, will there be some kind of support in the future? Will ubuntu be the main PC gaming platform? :o

p.s.: i'm just a newb, please don't kill me....

Don't those games work on XP (meaning they work with DX9)?

I don't want to use windows at all btw. I still has a need for windows because I love gaming very much. Gaming is a religion to me and not just all games, just "beautiful" games. Looks comes first to me, then gameplay.

I'm still new to linux, so I thought well, linux is on PC, games runs on PC so maybe linux can replace windows.

roland.b said: I'm still new to linux, so I thought well, linux is on PC, games runs on PC so maybe linux can replace windows.

I think you missed a point: linux is on PC, games run on windows, windows run on PC...so there is not a direct relationship between (some) games and linux. It's not linux you have to blame though, but game developers.

roland.b said: Is there a way to play dx10 win games like Crysis or NFS Undercover, etc on ubuntu? Haven't tried using wine to play this "heavy" games, but i doubt it will go well (afraid to try).

Anybody successfully do it?

If current ubuntu still can't do it, will there be some kind of support in the future? Will ubuntu be the main PC gaming platform? :o

p.s.: i'm just a newb, please don't kill me....

i play NFS Undercover on wine with no problems at all.

Right now, WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator) has pretty solid DirectX 9 support. DirectX 10 support for WINE has only just been started, but it should be improving with each new release. http://www.winehq.org/ The website also has an applications database, with a list of all applications that work well on WINE and all the applications that don't work well.

roland.b said: IHaven't tried using wine to play this "heavy" games, but i doubt it will go well (afraid to try)...

Half the fun of running a GNU/Linux system is trying new stuff. :)

As for trying those games, I lost faith with NFS games. :(

Crysis I haven't played much and haven't tried in Linux(Because I haven't played it much yet.). :p

MaxIBoy said: Right now, WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator) has pretty solid DirectX 9 support. DirectX 10 support for WINE has only just been started, but it should be improving with each new release.

http://www.winehq.org/ The website also has an applications database, with a list of all applications that work well on WINE and all the applications that don't work well.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8b4fbbe473bd0d51d936bcf298f5b7f0e8d25f2e

from my experience ive only had great success with opengl games everytime i run a strictly directx game i always get half the frames i would in windows.

my recommedation is to dual boot if you can. thats what I do, it works great. Linux is my main OS, and when I want to game I just reboot to Windows then when done back to Linux.

--just my 2 cents

If you want to play Crysis, you:

a) Need ALL the computer power you can get. Powerful CPU, and a nuclear-powered GPU.

and

b) Need a windows install.

There really aren't any ways around either. Use Linux for getting work done--and WinXP for wasting time. Crysis in DirectX 9 mode looks great under XP on my rig (see below)--there are only a few settings I cannot set to "high" or "enthusiast" (namely antialiasing) at 1680X1050.

DirectX 10 is a component of Windows Vista (not a separate software) and as such it is unlikely it will come to Wine anytime soon.