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		outworlder on Jan 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A comparison of city building games > whenever a game asked questions to the videocard using DX7 APIs, it would lie, This makes me wonder if Wine would run it better. Usually, Wine only "lies" if Windows itself does and if not doing so will cause things to break.

speeder on Jan 5, 2021 [–]

It does.

Putting Wine DLLs on SC4 folder make it run better even on Windows. Ditto for a couple other games (for example Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura)

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