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So I've been trying to get Origin running properly for a couple days, going off what I can find on the Wine AppDB and I can get it running (though sometimes it won't open and have to run a repair on the drive)

Edited by izberion

Oh nice!
You found the Wine 1.5.28-Origin build?
It ran fine for me too, but I tried to download Battlefield 3 and it eventually crashed Nautilus in Ubuntu 12.04

I have a few other games to try too
I purchased that Origin Humble Bundle and got several games for $6

A couple of my friends had codes left over so I got a free Burnout Paradise and Mirror's Edge. Burnout run from Origin crashes after you login in game to your EA account when it's trying to connect to the servers. I still have a couple things to try with that, mainly different wine versions and just trying to boot the game itself.

I haven't tested anything else yet though. Hopefully I can get BF3 to run. If I can get that to work, I'll get BF4 :P

As far as WineHQ is concerned, Battlefield 3 isn't going to run until they get DirectX 10 running in Wine. Basically any game that doesn't have DirectX 9 or OpenGL compatibility won't run in Wine. But that list is pretty small... though some of these new games are looking pretty stinking good.

EA isn't all that concerned about Linux, OpenGL or Wine, so we'll have to just hop over to Steam and get some games from there.

The DX10 support for Wine is pretty even with DX9 http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectXStatus.

And I think I have 144 games on Steam, 54 of which have Steam on Linux support. Soon 55 since the Metro: Last Light devs have confirmed a Linux version.

I avoid EA as best I can, though sometimes it's not possible.

Metro too!!! Awesome!
Things are looking good for Linux and games.

Wow 144 games? That is Crazy! My list is pretty big, click on "My Games" in my signature and you'll see all of my PC games.
I'm a collector

I noticed that too about DirectX 9 & DirectX 10, but I don't have a whole lot of DX10 games. Maybe I should try Just Cause 2 again?

There are also some mutterings about Saints Row IV and Linux, though not much evidence. The Crytek Engine (Crysis games) may get ported soon as well.

And getting 144 games isn't hard when a good chunk are from Humble Bundles and Steam Sales. Though I have plenty of games I've never played and never will. Most from the THQ Humble Bundle before they went under.

And go for it. I haven't really tried to get too many DX10 games running (most of my gaming revolves around League of Legends and Crusader Kings 2 at the moment) so I wouldn't know how well it works.

has anyone tried installing simcity using wine?

 

 

has anyone tried installing simcity using wine?

 

 

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This post is incredibly old. I would recommend starting a new thread. Necromancy usually doesn't help anyone. haha. :) 

Necromancy?  Thats funny!

Lets come up with a geeky forumish word for it like:

• Necrothreadcy
• Necropostancy