Transgaming Introduces Cedega 6.0

Tux Penguin writes "Today Transgaming introduced Cedega 6.0, which is the popular Linux game emulator based upon WINE. Among the new features in Cedega 6.0 is support for a number of new games, Shader Model 2.0 support, new FBO extensions support, and ALSA audio. Phoronix has provided a performance preview that has Doom 3 and Enemy Territory benchmarks from Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, WINE, and Cedega."

Comments

What a horrible review

[dreamchaser]

If you're going to test the performance of an emulation layer you certainly don't do so using graphics intensive games on low end and/or integrated graphics solutions. They should have at least used a midrange GPU. There are numerous other problems with the whole thing. Basically, not everything works and the performance of what *does* work is on par with the Linux equivalent based on the poorly thought out testing methodology.

Don't waste your time.

Re:Woo Hoo An an other 1st person shooter.

[SavedLinuXgeeK]

Why doesn't Crossover spend more time with other games that are more inovative, and fun. Cedega != Crossover. They develop their own products. Also, why are they testing cedega with a game that has a linux port. That just seems silly.

Re:Wine and WoW

[exwhyze]

wine-0.9.29 works 'out of the box' with WoW. Probably a couple earlier versions do, too.

Re:Get back to me...

[A beautiful mind]

They ARE open source. CVS access is available, sourcecode is GPL.

What you have to pay for is the convenient "snapshot" taken at a stable moment plus the packaging. You also support development that way.

Re:OpenGL

[Sark666]

Well, not really, those games are opengl on windows as well. They only use directx for input/sound.

Re:Get back to me...

[packeteer]

Transgaming negotiated with game companies and are required to close the source. The agreement was that if game companies are going to share their copy protection code with Transgaming then they need to not release that code under the GPL in Cadega. Seems ok to me.

Obviously free software is good but if a company is worried about the "viral nature" of the GPL they need to have some assurance that when they work with free software they are not going to get their code displayed for all to see. Ya the Transgaming people made a deal with the devil, get over it.

Re:Wine and WoW

[BobPaul]

Wine handles Wow just as good as Cedega. If you're paying for Cedega just for WoW, stop... there's no benefit. If you use it for other games as well, then it's probably worth it. Just MHO.

Check here:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Linux/Wine
and here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=648 2

Useless

[cortana]

But if you try to redistribute it, Transgaming will change their license to prevent you from doing so.

Re:Linux is better for games than vista

[mahmud]

The Cedega software doesn't expire on you. Once your subscription ends you just can't download updates. You don't "rent" it.

Re:Linux is better for games than vista

[Drooling Iguana]

They may have changed their policy since the last time I checked, but I'm pretty sure subscribing to Cedega just means that you can download the new versions of the program when they're released. If your subscription expired, the last version you installed will still work, you just won't be able to get updates.

Re:LOL

[bettlebrox]

>Funny how they benchmark two of the very few popular games that have native Linux clients, indeed.

That's the point. So they can compare the Windows version, the Linux version, & the Windows version on both Wine & Cedega. This lets the folk doing the benchmark figure out how much overhead there is to wine & cedega and show if it perform better, worse, or the same than playing games natively.