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You're kidding, right?

The _only_ game I've ever seen to run better in Cedega than in Windows is Anachronox. The level loading delays were significantly reduced, and the game didn't crash randomly like it enjoyed doing in Windows.

However, most games run significantly slower, especially if you don't have boatloads of RAM.

I remember Starcraft running smoothly on a 166 Mhz Pentium 1 with less than 64 MB RAM, in Windows. Try that in Cedega. The thing will be unbelievably laggy, even if you pop in a better video card.

psi42

Aparently you haven't played Anachronox. Whilst many would not consider it up to the standards of Deus Ex, it's still a damned fine game. One of the best PC RPGs to date.

See: Anachronox. The other good Ion Storm game, which just so happens to be an RPG.

It's also too bad that the whole team was fired as soon as the game shipped. Who gets the money when we buy Anachronox now? Eidos? Screw that. One of the fired devs recommended on some forum somewhere that people pirate the game, since he wasn't going to get any money even if they did buy it. If I hadn't bought it the day it shipped, I would have done that instead. I hope at least some of my money went to the devs. These are, after all, the people who released a patch after they were fired to allow me to play under Windows 2000. Something even Eidos wouldn't do.

Being that it is, at its heart, a console RPG, Anachronox is a really great PC game. I think it just took too long to develop and ION had its own problems at that time. Anybody know what Tom Hall is up to now? PocketPC games. I'm sure they enjoy making those, but I'd much rather see a second Anachronox game. Sorry about this being offtopic :|

Ravi

Nah, they'll just outfit them with those russian underwater guns and we'll see mercinaries being hired to protect the country from incursion... wasn't that the plot of anachronox?