WineX Install Goes Sour for LinuxWorld Editor

jg21 writes "LinuxWorld's gaming industry editor apparently grappled with TransGaming's latest WineX release, now renamed Cedega 4.0, to such an extent that she "lost" half a day of her life. A trip to the Dark Age of Camelot site for a 7-day free trial ended in tears and installing Diablo II didn't go much better. Dee-Ann LeBlanc may have coedited Linux for Dummies, but she suffered more black screens than a multiplex during a power outage. Is the problem simply that she uses Fedora Core 2 - can't someone help her out?" Are these one-off problems, or symptomatic of a bigger issue?

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For an alternate view...

[Afromelonhead]

Check out Joe Drago's impressions at OSNews. His story revolves around City of Heroes and an older game, namely Grim Fandango. His review is pretty much all positive. Here's an excerpt for those who don't bother to RTFA:

If you are a Linux user that is tired of rebooting for those Windows games, this is definitely for you, but you can't be afraid to help coax Cedega into playing your favorite games just right. I think that it's going to get better with each release.

Somebody's in the wrong sandbox.

[Ironmaus]

Of course it's symptomatic of a bigger issue. The issue is that you've got a gaming industry editor for a Linux magazine trying to play emulated Windows games. Is there anyone who expected the process wouldn't be a giant pain in the ass?

When we play emulated Nintendo games on other consoles or our PCs, there's always some glitch. If the sound cuts out or a character's animation begins to loop, that's just the way it goes. Come back after the next revision and see if the emulator has been fine tuned to handle that specific game. She admits trying only two games with Cedega before writing the experience off as too frustrating.

I'm really happy to see her investigative journalism turn up the shocking truth about the industry: many games run Linux on their backends. But it's sad to see her expectations for the emulation of Windows clients are so unreasonable.

Seriously, if you want a hassle free Linux gaming experience, go back to playing Tux Racer.

What?

[cjpez]

I installed Cedega in about a minute:

#cd /
#tar zxvf ~/programs/cedega_4.0-1.i386.tgz

... and there I was, playing Vice City.

Re:Dee-Ann LeBlanc and technical expertise

[Dee-Ann LeBlanc]

Interesting, which conference would this be? I'll be at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, you're welcome to come by the LinuxWorld Magazine booth and set up a time to see me. Then we can have a little chat about how little I know. ;) I find the typical gamer comment pretty funny since I'm pretty behind on my game knowledge, mostly because I don't own a gaming box like an Xbox, PlayStation, or whatever, and I don't use Windows for games!

Re:Dee-Ann

[Seraphim_72]

Radeon support is not there and anyone who uses linux video acceleration knows this.
Reflecting on my people skills is a nice segue but really shows your "skills" as well, it shows my opinion, no more. I told about my impression of her based on her Lockergnome columns ... like I said - I was underwhelmed. It seemed to be the writings of someone that was far to busy to write or edit a serious newsletter. As I remember her tenure was short, her legacy not that great. If you didn't get the "unkind" part of my post perhaps I was too obtuse, or you humor impared due to your closeness to her. None the less you have taken an opinion and manifested it as a personal issue.

Re:I finally got WineX working

[Anonymous Coward]

"Since most folks think of no-CD cracks as evil pirate stuff, no "legitimate" board would ever serve them (hey, Transgaming... your product kinda _requires_ 'em, why not chase 'em down and make 'em available to subscribers?) and they seem to be tough to find. Google for a civilization III no-CD crack and most of what you get are forum posts asking where to get one..."

Forget the Google searching - this site is a savior for games whose copy protection doesn't work on your system: www.gamecopyworld.com