I just took notice (and you should too) that the wine-0.9.58 now supports DX9 (Direct3D) Post-Process effects. Thank you Wine (or Google's $$) Simply open the options (F11) -> Grphics -> ENABLE Post-Process Effects (no restart required). "This option will improve the quality and realism of a scene, as well as achieve some specific effects, such as scene-wide blurring. In Direct3D, image processing is usually performed as a postprocess after the rendering is completed. An application first renders its scene onto a texture, then processes the texture with a pixel shader to produce a different image with the enhancement or alteration. The use of pixel shaders makes this operation very efficient, so it can be performed in real time." [more on C++\Direct3D\PostProcess]Read more

wine-0.9.58

wine-0.9.58

Sure linux will play the latest and greatest games out-2-date, yet loading up a decade old game like StarCraft has been a teeth pulling experance. Enough! Check out PlayOnLinux for an (almost) pain free installation AND patch set-up. "PlayOnLinux is a tool to help Linux users run Windows games on linux, via the use of wine. This tool is free and written in bash. [It has a graphical user interface.] It already supports more than 30 games; anyone can help development (by posting new script which allows games to run)."Read more

While the default clock rates on my desktop are `get things done` I'd rather milk every megahertz available to me. The default the settings on my system is 8*333Mhz & 800FSB, and i've found that 8*420Mhz & 1008FSB runs quite stable and relatively low heat (as the C2D is already energy efficient). Below are the results of my findings...Read more