[plug] win4lin and games

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Mon Feb 19 15:11:02 WST 2001


Phillip Steege wrote:

> I just bought win4lin 2.0 and it loaded up just fine.  I loaded up win98 and 
> that installed with no problems.
> Then I loaded one of my favorite windoze games, Caesar 3, and it installed 
> properly, but when I try to run it, it says the following:
> 
> Your display driver is not win95 compatible.
> Direct Draw only supports win95 compatible drivers.
> 
> Are there any Plug members using win4lin for windoze gaming that could give 
> me a little help?

Certainly can!

Win4Lin doesn't support DirectX at all. Yet.
Try the game under WINE. There are some gaming patches available from 
http://www.transgaming.com/

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