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MighMos
08-19-2003, 06:40 PM
I've heard that wine can emulate at near windows or at native windows speeds, but I can't run pinball at a playable speed. Do you need the native windows DLLs for faster performance? Are there config file tricks that increase speed? Also, I am running Gentoo if that affects anything. I've got a decent computer, 1.4 Ghz athlon, 512 MB Ram...

Also, a second, quick question: I've heard that wine runs by changing the API layer from windows to native linux calls. Why can't you just do it <i>before</i> the program runs, and get even faster emulation? Kinda like how prelink runs or something.

Anyway, TIA...

mdwatts
08-19-2003, 07:04 PM
Have you read the included docs with the Wine package and also visited www.winehq.com or it that .org for tips and tricks etc.?

Searched the JL forums for Wine especially the 'How I did it' forum?