Cool, I was gonna be disappointed if I spent 2 hours DLing something (BF4) that doesn't work.
I have a full version of Win7Ultimate on VirtualBox and Mint 18. Do I need a different VM application and/or a different Distro? I'm still learning a lot of the command-line Wine things.
Anything Half-Life, Alien: Isolation, Metro Redux, The Witcher 2, two of the Trine games, X-COM 1 and 2, Tomb Raider, Torchlight II, DiRT Showdown, GRID Autosport, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, ....
And those are just some of the better known games. I have 100+ titles for linux in my steam.
If you want some free GPU Pr0n online shooter style, the new Unreal Tournament can be run on linux as far as I know. But I haven't tried that yet.
There are a lot of games available. Just to name a few which I like: Civ V, TF2, CS:GO, War Thunder, Terraria, Factorio, Besiege, Saints Row: The Third, Saints Row 2 (Don't know how the port is, but there is an official Linux port).
I know its probably not deliberate, but you make it sound like there arent any games. About 90% of the games I play are on Linux.
Granted I dont play battlefield much anymore. It just so happens the games you picked dont have Linux versions. (except ARMA)
EVE works well through wine.
And as mentioned you can play some of these with GPU pass-through on a VM.
This is why I dont like recommending these distros some times. Does mint seriously not have 1.8.3? Fedora has Wine 1.9.12, this is one of those packages where newer is always better.
Yeah....The default packege is 1.6.x something....The same as ubuntu....That is why it is better to use playonlinux if possible on Mint/Ubuntu to get the most suitable version installed.
Yeah to clarify it's like @noenken said, I am specifically looking for some GPU porn FPS or TPS to experiment with. I'm kinda broke until the end of the month so I was looking for F2P or trial stuff.
Theres tonnes of amazing games on linux, but if it isn't CoD or Battlefeild no one seems to care.
Yeah. Deus Ex, Dota, League, CS, lots of mmo's and RTS'. If you aren't a retard about it and try to learn how to use wine then you can play anything you want. You have to work for it, but it only makes it more enjoyable.
I haven't played it in a month: but I can always rely on the latest wine-staging to work. Wine-staging adds things like CSMT patches to help improve performance.
If not, Playonlinux and trying different wine versions is a great option.