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I got an old game working through WINE that wouldn't work through Windows' compatibility mode (lemm.ee)

submitted 19 hours ago by tombruzzo@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Back around 2020 or so I wanted to play old games because I only had an underpowered laptop that could barely play modern games.

One I downloaded off MyAbandonWare was this shooter from 2003 called Devastation. It's alright, but more I played it when I was younger and always wondered what happened to it.

On my old laptop it always crashed on startup and I just couldn't get it working. I could open the level editor and that was about it.

Recently I downloaded it again onto a new laptop I put Linux on and tried a few different configurations. I heard how WINE can be better than Windows for old software so I decided to give it a shot.

Eventually I used Bottles with a gaming configuration set to Windows Xp.

I tried Devastation with that setup and it worked. I still have an issue with the game being in the top left corner and not taking up the full screen, but it's playable.

I have a top spec gaming PC now running Windows 10, but there are things this Thinkpad can do that my big PC can't.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I have a similar situation with Borderlands 2 not running on my machine with Windows 7 but running just fine in Linux with Proton (which is Steam's branch of Wine).

It seems to me that Linux with Wine is actually better at backwards compatibility for Windows applications than Windows itself.

PS: Also a handful of old games I have from GoG that wouldn't run on Windows run just fine with Wine on Linux.

[–] tombruzzo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

I figure since WINE is already faking being windows, it's easier to fake what type of Windows it is. By comparison, Windows has a lot of it's own problems