call of duty

This is not the same as my other post. It's for older versions of Wine.

My friends keep complaining that Windows games wont' work in Linux. Well here is how.

The big news amongst Mac gamers this past week was the release of Call of Duty 4 for the Mac. The sequel to the popular first-person shooter has been available on PCs and gaming consoles since November of 2007, but the Mac version has only just been...

I just bought an SLI notebook computer I thought would blow my current self-built desktop out of the water in terms of playing Call of Duty 4, since most of the major hardware is substantially improved.

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Herron x64 running Call of Duty 4 in Wine 0.9.60, along with all the cool Compiz-Fusion effectsMy Specs:AMD Athlon 64 X2 36002 GB DDR2-PC5300 RAM256MB Nvidia Geforce 7600GTThe newer versions of Wine (0.9.59 and later) need a different 3DMARK patch, you can get it here:http://www.bennyp.org/wine/wine-0.9.59-3dmar...

"Getting COD4 to run in Wine is really no more complicated than say… my tutorial on running all the games in the Orange Box (TF2, Portal, HL2, etc).

Getting COD4 up and running takes a little bit more time, since compiling Wine takes the better part of 15 minutes on a relatively fast computer." So yeah there's some pain but it's worth it!