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Cedega 5.0 Released

Posted by Zonk on from the new-toys dept.

kormoc writes "Transgaming has released a large update to Cedega. This release (5.0) changes how the entire product works, merging the GUI with the actual program, as well as implementing features such as pixel shadier 1.4 support, in order to get games such as battlefield 2 working. The release notes list all the new improvements as well as the newly supported games. This seems to be the best release to date and expands the feature set to work with a large number of new games."

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  1. Battlefield 2 on Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The release notes mention that pretty much everything in Battlefield 2 is working... except you won't be able to play on PunkBuster enabled servers, which is like, all of them. And you can forget about playing at all if you have an ATI card.

    Great fuckin' job, Transgaming. Way to earn that subscription money.

  2. Re:Cedega will never get my money. by DreadSpoon · · Score: 1, Troll

    You pay for a game.
    You also have to pay for Windows to run the game on!
    Damnit, why should you have to pay twice!?

    I bought a car.
    I also need to keep buying oil and new tires and brake pads for my car!
    Damnit, why should I have to pay so many times!?

    Cedega will continue to be necessary in future years. If nothing else, all the current Linux games will stop working as the glibc and kernel hackers continue going out of their way to screw users of proprietary software. Eventually some change to stack sizes or libc interfaces is going to effectively kill off your proprietary games. Cedega will be able to run the Windows versions of the games better than Linux will be able to run the Linxu versions of the games. :-/