[Techtalk] gaming setup

[Natalee Thomason]

Thank you so much for this suggestion! It is extremely important for
me to have a Linux environment - Thanks again!

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Augustina Blair
<missaugustina at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gaming via VMWare is usually slow and the sound quality starts to
> deteriorate as well.  Depending on the game, you may have problems with
> VMWare's graphics driver.  My recommendation, if gaming on Linux is
> important to you, is to check out Cedega.
>
> I've gotten older games like Riven and the Sims to work in VMWare but there
> is a severe degradation in the audio quality.  It made Riven almost
> impossible to play without using cheats for puzzles involving sounds.
>
> Augustina
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Natalee Thomason
> <natalee.thomason at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Has anybody tried running Vista as the guest OS through VMWare on a
>> Linux host for games? I tried
>> installing spiderwick chronicles and the hobbit using wine on Kubuntu
>> 8.10 ( intrepid ) with no success. I ended up installing Vista as the
>> host OS and then using VMWare to run Kubuntu for everything else
>> non-gaming. Just wondering if anybody had tried it...
>>
>> thank you,
>> natalee
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