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cm0002@futurology.today to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 1 day ago

New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games

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New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games

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But author warns that Direct3D 7 “is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability.”…
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    Soon, Linux will have better compatibility with older windows programs than Windows itself.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Already does.

    • TeddE@lemmy.world
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      Soon? Let’s talk DOSBox

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        For early Windows DirectX 1 - 6 there’s 86Box.

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          dgVoodoo2 has worked fine for me for years for DX7 and earlier on wine. lutris already supports it natively.

          Or if a VM is needed, qemu+softgpu has been much faster for me than pcem/86box.

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            Bookmarking softgpu that’s a great link, thanks.

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    It’s D7VK

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    What can I use to play kingdom under fire a war of heroes I think it was on windows xp

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      Looks like it’s supported on proton, silver

      https://www.protondb.com/app/1315200

      So install it through steam and it should be playable

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        Yeah but the steam one seems kind of sketch reading the reviews

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          You don’t need to buy it on Steam to launch it through Steam

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            OK I didnt know you could run older games from windows xp through steam I’ll try to figure it out, I was watching a video last night about using lutris and how to mount the iso from archive.org

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          Ah then what you want is probably umu launcher

          Then you can run whatever you want under proton, though this isnt “officially” supported so you might have an odd glitch or 2. But if it runs on steam proton fine enough, it shouldn’t be much different

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