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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."
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when they stop charging you like a mmorpg.
Why get rid of something you obviously still need.
Other then treating an OS as a religion of course.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
Cedega probably wasn't your problem. I'd bet that you probably didn't have hardware 3D acceleration set up for your video card. The stock installs of most distros use the 2D-only open-source drivers distributed with X, which are useless for gaming. You wouldn't expect games to work under Windows without installing the proper drivers, and the same is true for Linux. With decent drivers (i.e. binaries from nVidia, or the open-source drivers for older Radeons), most games should run at similar framerates under Windows and Linux/Cedega.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
[i]Hard lock up.[/i]
Then your system is broken at a level far deeper than Cedega. No misbehaving software can completely lock up the average linux system other than unintentional fork bombs, which I am relatively sure you won't encounter with Cedega.
many people, including myself (GeForce FX 5900, non-ultra) have been playing WoW nearly bug-free for a long time. in fact, i heard most of the texture problems have been resolved, but most of those that remain are due to the ATi drivers. there are numerous known (and acknowledged) issues with ATi cards and drivers in particular, and the forums are rife with people complaining about their Ati stuff not working as expected.
that said, support improves every month with every new release, and with your subscription, you can vote for what matters to you. (and, since ATi issues come up every voting cycle, VOTE, DAMNIT.) (note, i typically vote -1 on most ATi issues, but i'll stop that if you agree to start voting.)
also, read the forums. it's a bitch, i know, but really, there is a lot of helpful information there if you just take the time to find it. the really big things get stickied (0x10000000 mem loc. fix for mouse in WoW, for example) and everything else will come up from time to time. and don't rule out your distro's forums, either. the official Gentoo gamer forum has threads for all sorts of problems that come up in Cedega, with tips on getting other games to work in vanilla Wine.
they claim it's out-of-the-box compatibility, but as with anything on linux, you have to care enough to fiddle with it a little.
grey wolf
LET FORTRAN DIE!
Microsoft will not do anything to help Linux. It's the closest thing they have to actual competition.
So grab some source (don't know if Cedega's is available, but you can get Wine) and make it work. Voting is not a bad thing... You want to cater to a general audience before the niche. It's not unreasonable to expect a low marketshare game to not get priority treatment. If your low-popularity game was going to get made, so would every game as popular or more popular... That's not reasonable.
Which really annoys me, because if they actually got off their Windows high-horse, they probably could sell application software for Linux.
If they actually made "MS Office for Linux", and it was actually half-way decent, I wonder how many of us may actually buy it. (as in those of us for whom OpenOffice does *not* cover all the bases)
Likewise, "Windows Media Player for Linux" would also be useful. I've got some stuff I need to watch that doesn't work in anything but real WMP. (ok, it does work in WMP for MacOSX, but doesn't work in that Flip4Mac thing MS is trying to push as a replacement)
* net-misc/vpnc
Latest version available: 0.3.3-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 58 kB
Homepage: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/
Description: Free client for Cisco VPN routing software
License: GPL-2 BSD
Cisco makes a client themselves too but it sucks. I have used vpnc successfully in the past on my laptop with the ipw2100 drivers to get on the wireless network here at UIUC.
I ran cedega for a while, but even doing hardware swaps (my windows and linux machines are identical except for the video card) CoH ran about 10-20% slower on average in framerate.
This would probably have been okay but as I sad that was average. Standard deviation was way up there, which was the problem. Smooth smooth smooth smooth frame-per-second-crawl-for-3-seconds smooth smooth smooth. Didn't look like it was a lack of memory issue or what-not.
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