cedega

[nick06]

I am looking to put games on my linux machine, and in doing so, the only program i can find (so far), is cedega. Which happens to cost. Does anyone know where there is a an application that allows windows games to be played that is free?

thanks,
nick

[taurus]

Will move your post to the gaming section since you may get more helps over there. ;)

[YokoZar]

The program you want is called Wine.

http://www.winehq.org/

[ZylGadis]

What he actually wants is

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Native_Games

If you want to play Windows games, the best way to do it is play them in Windows and take the performance hit (and all other hits peculiar to that OS). Wine and Cedega do not cut it in most cases (not to mention that Cedega is made by cheating b*stards); besides, I know of no gaming genre that does not have an excellent native Linux specimen, so there should be no reason for insisting on that particular Windows-only game unless all you care for is the brand/name/whatever. But then what are you doing in Linux land? :)

[justin whitaker]

What he actually wants is

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Native_Games

If you want to play Windows games, the best way to do it is play them in Windows and take the performance hit (and all other hits peculiar to that OS). Wine and Cedega do not cut it in most cases (not to mention that Cedega is made by cheating b*stards); besides, I know of no gaming genre that does not have an excellent native Linux specimen, so there should be no reason for insisting on that particular Windows-only game unless all you care for is the brand/name/whatever. But then what are you doing in Linux land? :)

See, that is just wrong.

You may philosophically disgree with Transgaming: that's your right-but you cross the line when you deliberately spread FUD about it.

Fact: World of Warcraft, Counterstrike Source, Battlefield 2, and a bunch of other games run via Cedega, and via WINE. They do get it done. Now, it might be better to run native, but that's not a panacea either: I never got audio straightened out in Doom III and Quake 4...both of which ran fine in Cedega.

Fact: Alot of us have dropped $50 on Windows titles, and don't like having a bunch of useless coasters lying around simply because we want to run Ubuntu.

Comments like this are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

[John.Michael.Kane]

Please Keep the thread on topic,and keep it (G)

[PriceChild]

Personally i would rather dualboot xp or gaming than attempt to get them running on linux atm.

[BigWillyT]

Personally i would rather dualboot xp or gaming than attempt to get them running on linux atm.

And I unfortunately am leaning in this direction as well. I actually subscribed to get Cedega yesterday and have been unable to get BF2 to work. :( I successfully got it installed and patched to the current 1.4 but am not able to get it to run in order to play. I guess I'll fight with it a bit more before totally throwing in the towel but it may very well be an easier solution to just dual boot in order to play games and still have Linux.

[justin whitaker]

And I unfortunately am leaning in this direction as well. I actually subscribed to get Cedega yesterday and have been unable to get BF2 to work. :( I successfully got it installed and patched to the current 1.4 but am not able to get it to run in order to play. I guess I'll fight with it a bit more before totally throwing in the towel but it may very well be an easier solution to just dual boot in order to play games and still have Linux.

BF2 should work. Did you look at the Unofficial Wiki?

http://cedegawiki.sweetleafstudios.com/wiki/Battlefield_2

The wiki is maintained by Cedega users taking the support bull by the horns themselves.

The offical forum is here:

http://transgaming.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=62&sid=d8ef70be002cb9da069d1977094a0f0d

Interesting that they recommend version 5.1 instead of the latest one. You can install that via the Cedega interface: there is an option to "get prior versions".

Some other things:

Manually update punkbuster.
You may need to delete the ~cedega folder, reinstall, then install BF2 and the patch as the first title. That seems to work.