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TransGaming Releases Cedega 4.1
gavriels writes "Today, TransGaming released Cedega 4.1, a new update to our software that lets Windows games run on Linux systems. The new update adds support for Far Cry and Anarchy Online, and implements a completely new 3D pipeline which executes the traditional Direct3D Fixed Function rendering path using dynamically generated OpenGL vertex programs, providing great performance improvements on cards with sufficient vertex program capabilities. We also added MMX accelerated sound mixing, fixed copy protection issues in several games, and improved Pixel Shader support, among other things."
So Far Cry is a good game to test - it chews RAM but is prob comparable on video cards. If only I could remember how to run lilo with initrd thing I could reboot into linux and check.....ah happy days....
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Still doesn't support xinerama. Neither does doom 3. All they have to do is add one lousy command line argument just like mplayer has.
mplayer -xineramascreen 1 video.avi
Then make the application you are running show up only on that xinerama screen. It's rather simple, but nobody does it. Even linux native games like vegastrike don't do it. It makes gaming very difficult. Windows that are supposed to open in the middle of the screen show up in the empty space between monitors. And full screen apps engulf both screens.
I beg everyone developing linux apps to add proper support for xinerama. Please.
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We have supported render to texture in Cedega, for both Direct3D and OpenGL apps for quite some time. It isn't as efficient in OpenGL in Linux, due to the lack of a specific extension to support it, but it still works. We render to a pbuffer, then copy to the target texture. You can see this to good effect in Far Cry, with their water reflections, for example.
Take care,
-Gav
I attempted to install it the other week, but I ran into the wonderful cd-rom locking problem and was unable to switch to the second disk during the install.
Transgaming claims Cedega 4.0 supports switching cd's, but it's hit or miss. Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is an example of this, as their FAQ states you need to copy the second cd's contents to your hard drive and point the installer there when it asks.
I really wish there was a simpler way to use cd drives with a stock GNU/Linux kernel instead of hunting down supermount patches or strange hacks like Transgaming tries. It's a major issue that that's is holding back as a desktop OS.
Its not that Wine or Doom3 don't support Xinerama but that Xinerama doesn't yet support OpenGL.
However, you *can* run multi-head without Xinerama and run as many OpenGL in-game displays as you can fit video-cards in your system.
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Cedega is not Open Source software. We make no bones about this. Some of the code is available under the AFPL, and we release other portions under the X11 and LGPL licenses to share with the ReWind and Wine community occasionally, but our core technology will not be released. You can read more about some of the related issues in my column here.
As far as Final Fantasy XI goes, we have not done any work on it, and I have no idea whether or not it works. We do our work based on our users' votes, so if you're interested, subscribe and vote for it!
Steam and Half Life both work. Half Life 2 has been consistently voted #1 on our lists for several months, but as it's not released yet, we can't really talk about support for it at this time.
Finally, benchmarks can vary significantly depending on the application and the system. Some titles run as fast as they do in Windows, others are slower (some significantly so), and we sometimes get reports of a title running faster under Linux for some users. You can check out our forums for more info on what works well.
Take care,
-Gav