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0 pointsshakna2mo ago0 comments

Anything around DirectX 10 and older has issues with Windows, these days.

One more popular example is Grid 2, another is Morrowind. Both crash on launch, unless you tweak a lot of things, and even then it won't always succeed.

Need for Speed II: SE is "platinum" on Wine, and pretty much unable to be run at all on Windows 11.

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shaknaOP2mo ago

Sidenote:

Whilst Morrowind is fine under Wine, there's a fantastic engine rebuild called OpenMW [0]. It runs on both Windows and Linux natively.

Some of the memory limits are also lifted, which meant I have a few mods that weren't possible without hacks in the past [1].

[0] https://openmw.org/

[1] https://morromod.netlify.app/

account422mo ago

Unfortunately the modding community is split because OpenMW only cares about supporting the original game and not the script extender ecosystem that modders have built around it.

tubs2mo ago

Isn’t this because the wine db has those tweaks pre configured?

Xirdus2mo ago

Windows used to be half operating system, half preconfigured compatibility tweaks for all kinds of applications. That's how it kept its backwards compatibility.

realusername2mo ago

It's because wine OS selector actually tries to match bug for bug the OS version you set but Window's one gave up after Windows 7.

shaknaOP2mo ago

More a case of DirectX radically changing how it worked [0].

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3darti...

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0 pointsshakna2mo ago0 comments

Anything around DirectX 10 and older has issues with Windows, these days.

One more popular example is Grid 2, another is Morrowind. Both crash on launch, unless you tweak a lot of things, and even then it won't always succeed.

Need for Speed II: SE is "platinum" on Wine, and pretty much unable to be run at all on Windows 11.

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shaknaOP2mo ago

Sidenote:

Whilst Morrowind is fine under Wine, there's a fantastic engine rebuild called OpenMW [0]. It runs on both Windows and Linux natively.

Some of the memory limits are also lifted, which meant I have a few mods that weren't possible without hacks in the past [1].

[0] https://openmw.org/

[1] https://morromod.netlify.app/

account422mo ago

Unfortunately the modding community is split because OpenMW only cares about supporting the original game and not the script extender ecosystem that modders have built around it.

tubs2mo ago

Isn’t this because the wine db has those tweaks pre configured?

Xirdus2mo ago

Windows used to be half operating system, half preconfigured compatibility tweaks for all kinds of applications. That's how it kept its backwards compatibility.

realusername2mo ago

It's because wine OS selector actually tries to match bug for bug the OS version you set but Window's one gave up after Windows 7.

shaknaOP2mo ago

More a case of DirectX radically changing how it worked [0].

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3darti...

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