Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains

Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by ndriscoll on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @07:04PM (#47510820)

90s Windows ran inside of DOS, and you can run e.g. Windows 98 games (through Windows itself) in DOSBox. Look up exowin9x where they're trying to compile all of the necessary configs for one-click launchers.

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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by tombert on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @09:21PM (#47511966)

I didn't think that regular DOSBox had support for stuff like 3dFX does it? Or other weird APIs?

I had to use PCem to get support for that stuff.

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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by sersi on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @12:13AM (#47513146)

I've had some success with installing windows in dosbox-x which has glide support. Faster and more lightweight than pcem/86box

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Re:Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel w... by tryauuum on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @02:33AM (#47514014)

I tried running the elder scrolls Redguard, on wine, which launches windows version of dosbox with glide support. Redguard is a weird beast which is installed only with windows installer, but the actual game runs in dos mode

Everything works but the frame rate isn't great

If anyone knows a good Redguard setup for Linux please mail me, you can guess my mail easily. Now I just run the gog version

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