Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 01, 2006 10:02 PM
Yeah, I have to agree with you. Basically if you get a brand-spanking-new game that was just released last week, you PROBABLY will have something varying from pain and agony up to total failure installing/running it under Cedega, but usually within 6 to 8 weeks of a popular release Cedega gets an update to fix whatever issues (usually installer and copy protection) have arisen.
For example I got Civ4 right after it came out. It took quite a bit of work to get it running at first. Once it DID work, things were fine, it was all installer issues. I haven't played on Windows (don't even own a copy) so I can't say if its faster/slower etc, BUT I can say that on my 256meg Nvidia 5200 card it runs pretty well, and I run in fullscreen dual-head 2650x1200! As typical with other games there are some really minor issues. The in-game animations don't work too well, and once in a great while a ship looks a bit odd, but then again the game has plenty of bugs on Windows too from what I hear, and its a HUGE resource hog! Still, its perfectly playable, doesn't crash often, and installing it is no longer a big hassle.
It seems to me Cedega is providing a decent service to Linux users. It would be NICE if there were Linux ports of games, but there aren't, and thats just the way it is. Personally I doubt that will happen until game consoles adopt Linux and OpenGL, which may or may not ever happen. PC game vendors just don't have any reason to develop expertise with Linux, they don't have distribution channels for Linux games, etc. For that matter it looks to me like even the PC game market is slowly loosing out to consoles.
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Re:Cedega, less problems than the article claims
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 01, 2006 10:02 PMFor example I got Civ4 right after it came out. It took quite a bit of work to get it running at first. Once it DID work, things were fine, it was all installer issues. I haven't played on Windows (don't even own a copy) so I can't say if its faster/slower etc, BUT I can say that on my 256meg Nvidia 5200 card it runs pretty well, and I run in fullscreen dual-head 2650x1200! As typical with other games there are some really minor issues. The in-game animations don't work too well, and once in a great while a ship looks a bit odd, but then again the game has plenty of bugs on Windows too from what I hear, and its a HUGE resource hog! Still, its perfectly playable, doesn't crash often, and installing it is no longer a big hassle.
It seems to me Cedega is providing a decent service to Linux users. It would be NICE if there were Linux ports of games, but there aren't, and thats just the way it is. Personally I doubt that will happen until game consoles adopt Linux and OpenGL, which may or may not ever happen. PC game vendors just don't have any reason to develop expertise with Linux, they don't have distribution channels for Linux games, etc. For that matter it looks to me like even the PC game market is slowly loosing out to consoles.
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