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Half-Life 2 Under Linux Review
as writes "TransGaming Technologies, a developer of software portability products that allow game developers and publishers to develop games for one system and deploy them across multiple platforms, has released version 4.2 of their Wine fork Cedega on 7 December 2004. The new version of Cedega 4.2 offers support for Valve's bleeding edge action shooter Half-Life 2. linuX-gamers.net has tested Half-Life 2 with Cedega 4.2 and has written a short review of the game under Linux."
I didn't know you were also commenting here, and I would like to post my post to your article at Linux Gamers:
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I experienced some problems on gaming using custom kernels, specially ones running the koliva's patchset (like ck or nitro). Last time it was with Vendetta Online (low framerates and specially choppy sound). They're mostly caused by buggy task schedulers.
Keep in mind that those patchsets are often very very buggy. I remember specially huge 3D perfomance lows when running 2.6.7-nitrox (they have all the CK patchset).
Half of the issues I had with gaming went when I upgraded to 2.6.9-nitro1. The rest, when upgrading to the last nvidia drivers.
Have you tried to run hl2 against a kernel.org kernel or a 2.6.x kernel from Debian Sarge/Sid? I think that you should REALLY try that. The cedega thing is VERY sensitive to kernel issues (like any cpu intensive app).
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Your head a splode
Can something be bleeding edge when it goes through as many delays as HL2 did?
I know that I was bleeding on the edge of my chair waiting for it for so long that I practically amputated both legs. Good thing I don't need legs to play it.
I'm not the writer. I was just summarizing. In retrospect, I perhaps should have said "Let me summarize [in the voice of the reviewer]" or some such indicator that I was writing in the voice of the reviewer, despite not being the reviewer.
Yep, that overexplains it nicely.
Curmudgeon Gamer: Not happy
>Do they even know how many linux customers they have?
It used to be 5, but Jake hasn't logged on for weeks.