Steam and Steam via Wine

[FatRakoon]

Just a thought...

I have a great list of games under my Steam list.

Many of them are both Windows and Linux.

There are a couple, that are Windows only, and this is a shame.

Now, I was wondering something...

The downloads are huge, and so rather than doing severl gigs of downloading just to find out that they dont work, I thought I would ask first, but...

If I was to install steam under WINE, and not the native Linux version, how does this affect the games that are then under steam?

Lets take a one of the games is available as both L:inux and Windows... How would that play out? does steam install the windows binaries or the Linux ones?

What about a game that is NOT in the Linux list? Would that play, or will it just not install?

Does anyone have any knowledge on how this will pan out?

I ask before I install and waste my time with it all.

Thanks very much.

 

[stopper]

Steam running in WINE will always download windows binaries.
Steam itself runs perfect, but some games might not, so search the database and see if the game you want is running well enough first.
https://appdb.winehq.org/

 

[FatRakoon]

I suppose, I kind of assumed that it would download the Windows binaries, but the question was more leaning to whether they would work or not.

I guess, what I will do, is similar to what I have already done, and that is to simply copy my entire steam folder over, to where wine put this one, and then see how it fares there? Maybe I could do a bit of a file check and see how it fares when running a game or two?

In reality, there is only a couple of games that I actually care about, and what is bugging me about things right now, is that on my laptop, I have been able to get these games to run perfectly fine under wine, and indeed they run sweet as honey. The real issue for me, is that I want them to run on my Linux Desktop PC and I have installed them, but thats all... Every time I try to run them, I get an error that I just cannot get past.

These are the WarHammer Dawn of War games.

I have them both as stand alone DVD versions, plus I have bought them through steam too, and the standalone versions are the ones I have tried in Linux and have had the success and failure, and so thats why I fancied trying the Steam version.

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Great link by the way... Found some interesting things on there... Winetricks for example, so thank you for that.