Where to get Cegega?

[Delerium]

Hi there!

I tought Transgaming was distributing a CVS version of Cedega for free? It this still true? Where can I get it?

Thanks!

[bored2k]

Here you go. Make sure you install minesweeper95! ;)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=29996&highlight=cedega+cvs (winex is the old cedega name)
http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=45

[bjunix]

yes the cvs version of transgaming is free. but as far as i know the cd copy protection mechanisms are not included.

try google find out more. here s one resource i found more or less by random: http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=45

edit:
oh i started this reply when there still was no other reply. so sorry for the dobbled information

[Marquis_de_Carabas]

yes the cvs version of transgaming is free. but as far as i know the cd copy protection mechanisms are not included.

If you have a no-CD crack (assuming you have a legitimate copy of the game of course) then is there any advantage at all to paid-for Cedega over the CVS version?

[kestasjk]

Cedega from CVS is a pain in the ***, take it from me.. Once you get it, you've got to install about 15 -dev packages, plus gcc. Once you compile it you'll get an error message about mesa/opengl headers and find out you need Mesa headers but you have OpenGL, and you can't have both. If you manage to get it to compile you'll make install it, and it'll spread itself all over your ubuntu installation in a way that is completely inconsistant with the Debian way of organising installed programs, and completely ruins your prospects of uninstalling it in less than half an hour.
You then run winex sol.exe, and get some error about how it couldn't link dxd8.dll.so or some nonsense. Then you'll try to LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/this/that/whatever/dxd8.dll.so" winex sol.exe and it'll probably complain about missing dxd8x12.dll.so. Around here you'll actually start to think about paying for an open source product with a commercial plugin (But you actually have to pay for transgaming's plugin every month you use it.(!)), then you'll actually start to wish you owned a Mac.


Damn I hate Transgaming.. Can someone please write a ubuntu oriented how to for simpletons like me who want to play Soldat? Please. ](*,)

[Marquis_de_Carabas]

Hmm, that does sound nasty. Installing and running games with Point2Play is fairly painless. But of course it costs money, and there are still plenty of games which don't work with it. And even when you have a game which is supposed to work perfectly and is officially supported, you find that the 'Game Of The Year Edition' or 'PC Gamer Edition' or whatever has some teeny tiny difference which completely messes things up. But then dual-booting is a pain and who the hell wants to run Windows anyway, so you decide to just limit yourself to Linux native games. With Doom 3, Postal 2, Crack Attack, Nethack etc. who needs anything else?

[penvzila]

Hmm, that does sound nasty. Installing and running games with Point2Play is fairly painless. But of course it costs money, and there are still plenty of games which don't work with it. And even when you have a game which is supposed to work perfectly and is officially supported, you find that the 'Game Of The Year Edition' or 'PC Gamer Edition' or whatever has some teeny tiny difference which completely messes things up. But then dual-booting is a pain and who the hell wants to run Windows anyway, so you decide to just limit yourself to Linux native games. With Doom 3, Postal 2, Crack Attack, Nethack etc. who needs anything else?
I have never gotten Vice City to work 100% without using windows. That right there is enough to keep me dual-booting (plus AutoGK and DVDDecrypter.)

Plus, my laptop has an ATI card, which is quite a bit slower in Linux than in Windows.

[kestasjk]

My favourite game is Soldat, and it apparently works pretty much fine in Cedega/WineX, but I just can't get the CVS sources working and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for it every month.
Plus I need to do the occasional bit of photoshopping, I really should learn GIMP.

[poofyhairguy]

With Doom 3, Postal 2, Crack Attack, Nethack etc. who needs anything else?


My Half-Life2 install screams "Me!"

[bored2k]

My Half-Life2 install screams "Me!"
Half-Life 2 and its subordinates is all I'll ever need. Boy do I remember my first sleepless night playing Counter-Strike: Source. HL2 is the only game that has made me forgot every other game [MGS:SE, TKKN, etc]

[Marquis_de_Carabas]

I just can't get the CVS sources working and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for it every month.

I'm certainly not a Transgaming evangelist (I cancelled my subscription) but I thought I'd point out that you only have to subscribe for three months, which costs nine quid (or fifteen bucks for those on the other side of the pond). You don't pay the monthly fee to use Cedega/Point2Play, rather you pay it to have access to the new versions as they come out, vote for the new features you want implemented etc. You can subscribe for three months then cancel and keep on using any version released up to that point.

[pierre]

Cedega and Point2Play (http://www.transgaming.com)

[bigmell]

wc3 ftw...

And im sure many people will also want to play WOW/Everquest in addition to the hl2 other people already mentioned...

[rbhigday]

Does this play everquest 2?

[Artificial Intelligence]

Whoa! That's an old thread you raised back to the living :p


From their data base: http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/games/view.mhtml?game_id=3326
Nope.

[rbhigday]

Whoa! That's an old thread you raised back to the living :p


From their data base: http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/games/view.mhtml?game_id=3326
Nope.

Sorry I am an EQ2 addict and looking for a way to play it without using windows but it appears I have hit a ](*,)
Thanks for the info

[Sammi]

Wine doesn't appear to run it either: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=229 :(

[handy]

Here is a link for the Cedega_time_demo (http://linux.softpedia.com/get/GAMES-ENTERTAINMENT/Simulation/Cedega-9843.shtml)

It is not too old, & this is the only place I know of to get the demo now?

Transgaming stopped supplying it?!

It is useful for testing your games on...