Dangerous Waters and Virtual Box

goldorak · 01-04-10, 07:27 AM

No I don't have VMware its too much of a bloated software compared to Virtualbox. The thing is you can either run DW under wine or in Virtualbox.
In the first case you'll get no sound because that part of the Microsoft API hasn't been completely replicated in wine. So the game is basically useless even though graphically its ok.
Now to run the game in virtualbox you have got to install beforehand XP. So its basically DW runs on XP that runs in Virtualbox that runs on linux.
In this case the audio is ok but the graphics still has problems (for instance in the options menu you can see the little 3d screen but the different options are invisibile). Little problems like that.
So in the end no solution yet for running DW 100% problem free under linux but we are getting there.

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01-04-10, 07:27 AM	#5
goldorak Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,320 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	No I don't have VMware its too much of a bloated software compared to Virtualbox. The thing is you can either run DW under wine or in Virtualbox. In the first case you'll get no sound because that part of the Microsoft API hasn't been completely replicated in wine. So the game is basically useless even though graphically its ok. Now to run the game in virtualbox you have got to install beforehand XP. So its basically DW runs on XP that runs in Virtualbox that runs on linux. In this case the audio is ok but the graphics still has problems (for instance in the options menu you can see the little 3d screen but the different options are invisibile). Little problems like that. So in the end no solution yet for running DW 100% problem free under linux but we are getting there.