On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
Austin and I updated the pages http://kegel.com/wine/good-games.html http://kegel.com/wine/bad-games.html
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According to this count, the top 570 or so games since 1999, Wine handles 227 well, and 237 poorly.
Just a small observation about the following titles on the 'bad' list, probably applies to others
Battlefield 1942 Digital Illusions/EA Games 2002 88.72 Bronze Gold Silver Battlefield 2 Digital Illusions/EA Games 2005 89.99 Bronze Gold Battlefield 2142 EA DICE/EA Games 2006 79.96 Bronze Gold Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Infinity Ward/Activision 2007 92.37 Bronze Gold Platinum Silver
These games ordinarily work quite well or flawlessly, but use PunkBuster anti-cheat software for most multiplayer servers, which will never work in Wine legitimately, so it might not be entirely correct to say Wine handles them poorly when there is nothing it can do about the situation when the makers of the software intend it to only be binary compatible with genuine Windows.
Otherwise, that's interesting data.