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will my games play on this operating system

Asked by joshua michael getzinger

I am trying to install games on my computer that has just had ubunto installed. I am not having any luck

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Jason Odoom (jasonodoom) said : 		#1

Yes, not all games are compatible. Try installing Wine, it will allow you to play most windows games on Ubuntu. You can search for it in the software center.

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#2

You can get specific information on the compatibility of individual games (and other Windows applications) with Wine at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&sTitle=Browse%20Applications&sOrderBy=appName&bAscending=true.

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Larry Jordan (larryjor) said : 		#3

     My older games won't play in Windows now that I have a 64 bit computer - Windows was never much for supporting older programs. I now run Windows through VirtualBox (under Linux) and games all run just fine.

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#4

@Larry Jordan
Your games must be *really* old if you can run them in VirtualBox, since VirtualBox's graphics acceleration is very weak. With that said, I am glad you have a solution that works well for you.

@Joshua Michael Getzinger
If your games are really old (e.g. Starcraft) and you have a copy of Windows available for installing on a virtual machine, then you might be able to run your games in VirtualBox as well (or with some other virtualization application, such as VMware Player/Workstation). However, older games tend to also be reasonably easy to get working with Wine.

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