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Cedega 5.1 Released
Gamasutra reports that Cedega 1.5 has been released for Linux gamers looking for a Civ IV fix. From the release: "TransGaming Technologies has released Cedega 5.1, which features support for some of the newest PC titles such as Sid Meier's Civilization IV, FIFA 06 and Need for Speed: Most Wanted. Cedega allows games originally created for the Windows platform to run on Linux, straight out of the box. Other titles supported on Cedega 5.1 include Battlefield 2, Dungeon Siege II, City of Villains, Madden NFL 2006, World of WarCraft, Half-Life 2, Guild Wars, and many others. Cedega 5.1 builds on this growing list of game titles with new features that improve overall game play."
Wine 0.9.8 was released today.
They focus on making the most popular games work and screw the rest. I have no trouble admitting that my 3 month subscription of $5/month was a waste of money. I signed up so I could participate in the voting, only to discover how truely shallow people are. So I gave $15 to a quasi-open-source company, better than giving it to Microsoft I guess.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Last time I tried Cedega it didn't work. Textures were missing.
This was playing WoW on an AMD64 in 32bit mode, on a motherboard with a Via chipset and an AGP ATI Radeon 9200 (Gigabyte)
I upgraded my bios and tried so many things and eventually gave up. I have a windows machine now. So have they fixed this?
I'm not sure about all of you guys. But it plays what I want with no problems.
I just bought the Command and Conquer: The First Decade pack. Wine it errors on the installer, Cedega, it installs and runs perfectly. No gameplay problems, no lag, any of that crap.
Guild Wars, works.
World of Warcraft, works.
Steam and All the apps, they work too.
Civ 4, yep.
What more can you want?
Alot of games work with Cedega.. I don't see why all of you have these problems.
My box isn't top of the line, in fact it's almost 3 years old, and I run everything without a problem.
I was just evaluating Cedega 5.x the last 2 or 3 days with Battlefield 1942 and it worked pretty good but there's still plenty of issues with Punkbuster unfortunately. After a day or two of messing with manually updating Punkbuster (I think) I may have actually successfully updated it and was able to get on a few Punkbuster servers without getting the annoying O/S privileges messages. A good tip is to change your profile to WinME or Win98 if you have it as WinXP or Win2K. I'm still debating if I want to actually subscribe or not though. I would almost be able to run Slackware full time now that I have Windows 2000 running satisfactorily in QEMU. A Cisco VPN client and about 5 or 6 games are all that's keeping me dual-booting these days.
I have Cedega 4.1 and got Steam working in it (before they changed the skin) and Anarchy Online. I didn't even need to do anything; just fired up cedega and ran the executable.
Ryan - http://www.thecosmotron.com/
The link is labeled "Cedega 1.5" while the title and summary clearly state it as "Cedega 5.1". Can we fix this please? Thanks.
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I hate to yank everyone back to reality here, but if you can't get your favorite Windoze games to run with Cedega, and you REALLY want to play those games, why not dedicate a true gaming PC running XP and not munge your clean Linux system with all this patchy crap ?
1) Games that have massive memory requirements often run better in wine than on XP. In Simcity 4, I've got some cities that will no longer load in XP, but can chug along in wine.
2) Laptop drives aren't big enough that I'm willing to have a windows partition, but I still want my gaming fix when I'm on the road.
In general, though, you are right. A dedicated gaming box often gives the best results.
Unless I'm much mistaken, they don't charge you like an MMORPG. Your subscription buys you voting rights and access to updates. If you cancel, you still have the right to use the software that you've already downloaded.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
the binary nVidia driver isn't bug-free, either. i've had some major terminal lockups (requiring that i either SSH in and reboot or simply reset or it's just effectively headless) due to that driver. though i do with they'd open-source it so we could get these terminal driver problems fixed. :\
grey wolf
LET FORTRAN DIE!
and by this post, i can clearly see that you do not have ATI drivers, since they freeze even when running the savers from xscreensaver-gl .. bringin the box to a grinding halt.. Good for you sir!
That's exactly what I used to do, back when my "UNIX Desktop" was a Sun machine. But as I progressively got fed up with Sun's lack of decent 2D graphics hardware, I found the machine was probably better used as a server. (Already had a Sun server running a bunch of Sun Ray thin clients, but that desktop was a faster machine.)
For the longest time, I did want to maintain the dual-machine setup. As such, I really wanted to build some sort of Opteron super-workstation for *only* UNIX-like OSes (Linux or FreeBSD). But it always looked like it would cost me at least $2-3k, and I never had the money laying around.
As such, my "Windows gaming machine" has since become my "Linux desktop". While I could reboot, I've grown accustomed to a persistent desktop session. I also want to go straight back to *nix after playing a game. So, I try and use Cedega when it works for me, or just "deal with it" when it doesn't. (rebooting is a very rare occurance, since I don't have that much gaming time these days, and rebooting is only good if I want to spend a lot of time gaming)
So with Cedega, for $60 per year, I can use my existing Linux PC which is well decked out with lots of RAM, a fast CPU, and a nice video card. As an added bonus I'm supporting WINE development.
I could convert my box into a dual boot box, but then I'll have to pay for Windows ($268, respent every few years as new Windows releases come out), I have to put up with the nuisance of rebooting, and any services my PC provides are unavailable while in Windows.
I could, as you suggest, purchase a dedicated gaming PC. For something roughly equivalent to my Linux PC, I'd be looking at about $700 (respent every few years either in upgrades or replacements), assuming I'll reused the monitor from my Linux PC. And I'll need to find space for the extra machine.
I could buy an XBox or Playstation (I'd hardly call a piece of commodity electronics an "investment"), but I've been having problems getting World of Warcraft, Civ 4, City of Heroes, and Warcraft III running on either platform.
For some people Cedega is a very reasonable option. Encouraging people to spend money unnecessarily is stupid. Many people can be perfectly happy with Cedega and end up saving money. Personally it isn't for me (I play too many games, so I suffer with the dual boot option), but I'm not sneering at people who make that choice. You're not yanking people back to reality, you're ignoring reality.
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