Unfortunately... Cedega sucks.

Unless there is a quantum leap in their technology where 90+% of windows games install easily, don't crash, don't suffer from graphics glitches, and don't have substantial performance hit... it will never be a good option.

Most linux gamers either dual boot to XP for games... or (like me) run a dedicated XP box for gaming... and do everything else on linux.

/shrug

my head hurts.

I've been primarily a linux for several years now and use Cedega for several games, however it's not perfect to say the least for example Steam and many of the newer games just have major issues. Although since the only game I been playing lately on the PC is World of Warcraft and it works fine for the most part, except for the new in game voice chat isn't working yet.

Cedega is a branch off of Wine, which is what the guru's call a Windows API layer for Linux (if you call it an emulator you get shunned on the forums)...

Cedega is on a subscription base payment system... what you pay for is developer time to get games working properly.. Customers can vote on games and features they want working on future builds. Cedega at least in the past had a free version of there software, that was lacking some features... however you can pay for a 3 months subscription and get cedega, what's good is if your subscription lapses you still can us it.. just can't get any updates..

Linux in general is a better OS that Windows. The learning curve is steep, but once you know it you will find Windows severely lacking. Linux has a much speedier file system. my load times on World of Warcraft is almost twice as fast in Linux and amazingly I get a solid 10 to 15FPS better in Linux with the same exact video settings.

This comment was edited on Oct 6, 05:06.

Cedega has been packaged with Mandriva previously, I think it was Mandriva 2007 (but not 2007.1) Cedega may be fine for what it is, however it is still very limited, you will still find far more games you can't play, than those you can play, Cedega or not. Plus Cedega is based on Wine, Wine is free, Cedega is not, and you will get alot of the games that Cedega runs, to run with Wine anyway. Cedega is nicer looking, may be and specifically for games.

and before you know it Windows is no longer needed to game!

It will be a long, long, long time before this ever comes true, if it ever does. I hope it does, but I'm not holding my breath.

Apart from playing the actual games themselves, if you are a modder/mapper, you are basically up shits creek, because modding/mapping tools for most games are Windows only, you can get Linux support for some, but the vast majority is exclusively Windows. the upcoming Unreal Tournament III is supposed to have FULL Linux support, both for the Game itself, and the modding side of things, which I must say kudo's to Epic if they actually do, but Unreal . . . eeeewwww . . . If they only could make a good game/engine

But IMO, gaming aside, Linux has Windows hands down, to me there is no question about it, but, gaming has to be taken into account, which makes it simple, Windows can do everything I want, Linux can't. But this is not the fault of Linux as such, if Game/software/hardware developers/Distributors would support Linux, things would be different, I think you would see a large migration from Windows over to Linux, maybe one day.

This comment was edited on Oct 6, 00:48.

Which part, the Cedega bit or openSUSE failing to work on my system?

The pertinent gaming part:

Cedega is a program that is designed to allow Windows based games to be played under Linux. It isn't free. I know Mandriva sells certain OS packages in order to generate revenue (though they've consolidated the offerings) and I'm assuming that Cedega will be packaged with just such a thing. Edit: Being packaged with the upcoming Mandriva release gives Cedega more exposure (to my knowledge this is the first such deal involving Cedega), resulting in more revenue and more development, and before you know it Windows is no longer needed to game! Ok, ok, so maybe I was stretching it with that last part.

I have no idea how well Cedega works. I'd like to give it a try and find out, but I'm about to wipe out my Linux install and see if I can get openSUSE working. Perhaps later this month I'll try it. On second thought I'll just resize my PCLOS partition and make another one for openSUSE.....why didn't I do that the first time?!?


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This comment was edited on Oct 5, 23:55.

Out of curiosity, for those of us who don't know crap besides Linux and it's mascot, would you kindly translate that for me and what exactly it means?
Thanks.

Looks like Cedega is getting packaged with the pay version of Mandriva, which is understandable. I've been tempted to give Cedega a whirl, I may do just that soon.

Of course, I'm mostly just waiting for the latest Mandriva release. It's been delayed by what I assume is a desire to fix more bugs. RC2 was great, and given that my favorite distro (PCLOS) is based on Mandriva it may end up as my new desktop distro--especially since openSUSE 10.3 has some serious issues with my system (who needs a GUI or functioning GRUB install? :|)

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