Not necessarily. Wine is a compatibility layer, not an emulator. It does introduce an overhead, but that can sometimes be more than offset by the OS having less.Fredcompany wrote:If my computer was a bit faster I'd use Linux running Wine to play CoD 4, but I think that would probably make it completely unplayable. I haven't even started up the computer yet, so I'll just see how it goes.
You will need to ensure you have hardware 3d acceleration. If using nvidia graphics, you'll need nvidia's proprietary driver. ATI and Intel have open source drivers with 3d acceleration so you'll probably have it out-of-the-box.
Of course, there's speculation that a Linux Steam client is coming.
When thinking about PC games in general, bear in mind PC games have been being made for decades. As such, any computer can run plenty of games - the ones that were being released around when it was new. Don't disregard a game just because it's several years old. If a game was fun to play when it was release it will still be fun to play now.