Windows 7 speedup

[trojanfoe]

But who said a computer can only run one OS?

Nobody did, but if you want to run the best chess engines you are forced to use Windows.

[ilari]

But who said a computer can only run one OS?

Nobody did, but if you want to run the best chess engines you are forced to use Windows.

Best engines? Can you be a bit more specific? Because in my experience pretty much every engine runs under wine.

[trojanfoe]

But who said a computer can only run one OS?

Nobody did, but if you want to run the best chess engines you are forced to use Windows.

Best engines? Can you be a bit more specific? Because in my experience pretty much every engine runs under wine.

Oh I see - well I've never used Wine so I have no idea what does and doesn't run. I simply meant natively without things like Wine, VMWare or Virtual PC.

[glorfindel]

I simply meant natively without things like Wine, VMWare or Virtual PC.

Wine Is Not an Emulator. It is a translation layer. "Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator" (from the wine website).

The problem is that is runs only 32-bit applications, so for computer chess you might be losing speed, but in the case of Rybka someone has created "microwine" through which you can run the 64-bit version. So I would say that if you want the best engine (which is Rybka 64-bit MP) you can run it in on a Linux system as I am running it without any problems. Edit: I should add that using an engine with wine is as simple as replacing e.g. thinker.exe with 'wine thinker.exe' when adding a new engine in your GUI.

And if you want games, you should check the wine application database http://appdb.winehq.org/ and see if and how well your windows game can run with wine.