Okay so I want to play old games, I mean stuff like roller coaster tycoon 1, Grim Fandango, Theme hospital etc etc, but what is support like for it, does anyone have personal experience with performance, also which distro gets the best Wine support for performance?
Thanks!
Well you could look for emulators or if they ran on something like Windows 2000 you could run a VM.
You should be able to run roller coaster tycoon without much of a problem. I've been playing a lot of my older games with wine. The ones that work work with wine I run in a virtual machine. Im using fedora 20 btw
I agree with skullabyss. If you are talking games this old, I think you should be able to play them in a Windows virtual machine without a PCI passthrough.
Give it a try, and post your findings, I am actually quite curious about it.
Most older games will just work with wine. I refuse to download those half-a-gig dll's from the KB to make wine work for programs, so if it doesn't work in wine, I run it in a kvm container, but I haven't had the need for that for the longest time. My wife is a heavy gamer, and there used to be time when she would always ask me to install Windows games in a kvm container on her machines, but in the last year or so, she has either just installed in wine in an lxc, or in a virtualbox without passthrough, and she's been happy with the performance. I guess she'll ask me to set up a Windows kvm again when The Witcher 3 finally comes out, if it doesn't come out on linux.
Wine is so powerful these days, it can run most software and games of more than 18 months old with hardly any deal breaking performance loss. Especially for older games, which often run faster in wine on linux than they do on Windows.