Newbie Install Advice

[mike james]

Yes cedega is not as easy to use as windows games. "Hit and miss" is not 
a bad description. It can require some fiddling around, but I found some 
games that wouldnt really work in wine would work ok in cedega, and 
there are plenty of games that work well enough to have a good time 
playing them. GTA San Andreas is a good example, and easy to install 
too. I have joined multiplayer LAN's with HL2, quake3 and MOHAA and 
played ok. Also played Counterstrike source online a few times, buts its 
not really my cup of tea. Im told that WoW works ok, but havent tried it.

 I have not tried to run games in a virtual machine because they dont 
have decent 3D graphics. VM's also chew through RAM like crazy. Dosbox 
works well for some of the classics like "Z" and I believe there are 
some console emulators out there, but I havent tried them in Linux.

The best way to cover all bases is to dual boot windows XP and Ubuntu. 
Windows games do run much better in windows, but there are some like 
Quake 4 and Doom3 that work as well or better in Linux (cheers to id). I 
decided that I was willing to support a company that was at least 
developing skills in that area and would provide me with some 
entertainment in the meantime, hence cedega. I have paid a LOT more for 
games/consoles/3D cards, etc over the years. In fact I usually spend 
more money on pizza than cedega costs per month. (about $7 au depending 
on exchange rates)

mike

Les Gray wrote:
> On Monday 09 July 2007 21:14:11 Trias wrote:
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>> Ok i'll keep that cedega in mind thanks.
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> Depending on what games you play, Cedega can be pretty hit and miss. I tried 
> it out for about 6 months (cost=US$30) and, while some games installed and 
> ran more or less trouble-free, most required a *lot* of fiddling around and 
> time-consuming searching for help to get going. YMMV.
>
> And the official support offered to subscribers was slow to respond and 
> usually ineffectual. It left me with the impression that Transgaming (the 
> company behind Cedega) want the benefits of a commercial software company 
> (ie. money up front) without the responsibility that comes with that (ie. 
> offering a product that will 'just work' as advertised).
>
> To be fair, it's a tough contract to implement a Linux compatibility layer for 
> Windows games. But then, given the nature of that beast, it's probably fair 
> to argue that Transgaming should take a 100% free software approach if the 
> expected level of product reliability just can't be there (like WINE does).
>
> So I ditched Cedega and just use my Windows hard drive for games. And that's 
> really all I use it for these days. In fact, I call it my 'Wintendo' instead 
> of Windows (doing this helps psychologically ;) ).
>
> Having a Wintendo is -
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> 1. Much cheaper than buying a console (not to mention console versions of all 
> my games, too).
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> 2. More powerful than a console because it's in my comp, and uses the comp's 
> hardware to run games.
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> 3. *Much* less problematic than Cedega because it's the platform the games 
> were designed to run on.
>
> The only games I run in Linux now are those which run natively (eg. games by 
> id software, who've been supporting Linux for a long time). ubuntuforums.org 
> has a great gaming section, too, if you haven't checked it out already. I 
> recommend having a look.
>
> Les
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