It's too bad you can't count on an internet Connection. WoW and City of Heroes/Villains are two of the most impressive looking (and fast) games under Wine, IMHO. Heck, even just the login screen for WoW might be a nice show - with the dracolich constantly landing/taking off while it's snowing.
I wouldn't recommend Counter-Strike: Source. It needs to be forced to DirectX8 mode to achieve a usable speed, and in that mode it looks pretty poor up next to what people are used seeing on the average Windows machine.
Though boring to some, I think you made a good choice including DreamWeaver - as the native apps just haven't caught up, yet.
-J
Seth Shelnutt wrote:
Dan,
As far as games go, off the top of my head there is WoW, and Guildwars. Battlefield 2/2142 both seem good choice. Counter Strike: Source and COD4 are gold rated. Lastly Crysis is gold rated too. There is an issue with punkbuster but that only effects online play.
3Dmark06 seems to work to some degree, http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13809 http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=13809 .
Also it might be interesting to show off, how Wine works with CUDA, http://gpu2.twomurs.com/index.php?title=Main_Page . There are some emails on the mailing list back when I first started working on the wrapper. I think it shows just how advanced Wine is. Not only can it run a windows program but with a wrapper it transfers the calls from windows dll to linux .so to the GPU, with stellar performance.
-Seth Shelnutt
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com mailto:dank@kegel.com> wrote:
I'm going to be giving a Wine presentation at Cebit next month. You can see a draft of the presentation at http://kegel.com/wine/cebit2009/talk.html (I will say lots more than is written there; the slides are kept simple on purpose, with just the key idea in the caption.) A large part of the presentation will be demos of platium-rated apps. Can people suggest compelling apps to demo? Right now my list is kind of boring-sounding: Framemaker 7 Kid Pix gp-Untis Photoshop cs2 Futuretax Dreamweaver It'd be nice to also have some games, but I don't play enough to know which ones to pick. I suspect online games are out, since I can't count on an internet connection. I'm tempted to write an autohotkey script to demo each app so I don't have to worry about fumbling mouse clicks while on stage. The ability to script would be a nice demo itself. This show is a big opportunity for us to introduce Wine to a large audience, so any help here would be appreciated.