Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 01, 2006 03:24 AM
Cedega combined with a modern Nvidia graphics card runs many games fine, sometimes even faster than Windows. At the moment I'm playing Operation Flashpoint, and GTA San Andreas. I also use Wine to play the flight sim IL2 Forgotten Battles.
The real showstopper for games that are not offically supported is the copy protection on the cd:s. One has to try to find a nocd patch for the specific version of the game with google, or give up. Once again the copy protection is only stopping me, the legal owner of the game instead of the pirates.
Sometimes the game would work in Linux but the installer won't. Then I use an old Windows machine or a Vmware image for the installation and then copy the files to the Linux machine. Sometimes I need to search the forums about adding the correct Windows registry entries for the game to Cedega.
The Transgaming games db isn't helpful for helping other users get a game running. Also if I could change something in the world, the not so popular game classics (like Falcon 4) would get better support from Transgaming. Now the blockbusters win all the votes. However, I am satisfied since many of my favorite games can already be played and I don't have to maintain a modern Windows machine just for playing.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 01, 2006 03:24 AMThe real showstopper for games that are not offically supported is the copy protection on the cd:s. One has to try to find a nocd patch for the specific version of the game with google, or give up. Once again the copy protection is only stopping me, the legal owner of the game instead of the pirates.
Sometimes the game would work in Linux but the installer won't. Then I use an old Windows machine or a Vmware image for the installation and then copy the files to the Linux machine. Sometimes I need to search the forums about adding the correct Windows registry entries for the game to Cedega.
The Transgaming games db isn't helpful for helping other users get a game running. Also if I could change something in the world, the not so popular game classics (like Falcon 4) would get better support from Transgaming. Now the blockbusters win all the votes. However, I am satisfied since many of my favorite games can already be played and I don't have to maintain a modern Windows machine just for playing.
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