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Transgaming releases "WineX" 4.0 "Cedega"
visy writes "Transgaming has opened a new site at today and are announcing WineX 4.0, now dubbed Cedega after a unique variety of grape. Transgaming claims Cedega allows "Windows ® games to seamlessly and transparently run under Linux, out-of-the-box, with outstanding performance and equivalent game-play". Will we see a new era of game compatibilty?"
I have been messing around with warcraft 3 in WineX since the Reign of Chaos BETA and it has NEVER worked "properly" for me.
... that was the last time I was a subscriber. I gave them so many chances and I was disappointed beyond belief that I had to jump through so many hoops to use a commercial product.
Oh sure, I can play the game... but I have to do the following steps:
a) delete my ~/.transgaming directory each time I want to play
b) log out of Gnome 2.4/Sawfish and start a barebones window manager (otherwise the startup splash logo stays in the middle of the screen permanently making the game unplayable)
c) forcefully kill the winex process after warcraft 3 is finished (because it won't return to the command prompt otherwise)
(and incidently, hard drive access in war3 under winex is significantly slower than windows... it is pretty hard to micro when every time you click a unit it takes 1 second to cache in the audio for that unit! maybe instead of adding new games, some time should be spent optimizing?)
I subscribed to winex for 6 consecutive months once, not to mention 3 other non-consecutive months and I feel like their support was utter crap. Sure, warcraft 3 is playable, but having to quit my window manager is almost as bad as having to reboot to windows in the first place. Also, the fact that alt-tabbing doesn't seem to ever work is ridiculous (I don't care what software limitations there are... with the source code to X available, it should be possible to make this work, dangit).
Admittedly, the last version I have tried was an early version of 3.x
Big thumbs down for WineX.