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PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 2002 9:03 pm    Post subject: Differences Reply with quote

Can somebody explain me differences between Wine and WineX.
Is it that winex is only for gaming - not for runing common software.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 2002 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WineX has advanced DirectX support, and Wine doesn't. As far as I know, that's the only significant difference. I've managed to run productivity applications in WineX, but I gather Wine is a bit better at doing that job. I saw a posting on another site by a guy called Frank that said this
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WineX is an implementation of directx 7/8 and based on Rewind (the x11 fork of wine)
Wine is better for applications, but works also with a lot of opengl games.

So Wine will probably serve you best if you want both worlds, unless your favourite games are DirectX/Direct3D only.
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