Gaming with Wine or Cedega rather than rebooting to Windows

[Pnikosis]

Hi, I've recently switched to Linux and I love it (I'm with kubuntu right now). I love gaming and I see there's a lot of good free games for Linux but... I miss my good old Counter Strike: Source and other games. Right now I have Windows installed only for running games, but rebooting every time I want to play a game is not what I would call the perfect solution. So, my question is... how good is Wine and/or Cedega for running windows games? Buying a Cedega licence worth it?

Thanks a lot :)

[Sammi]

Both Wine and Cedega are in my opinion very good at running OpenGL based Win games, but DirectX support is not very good.

You can look through Wine's application database to see how the game or program performs, that you want to use: http://appdb.winehq.org/

[OffHand]

Guild Wars and City of Heroes/Villains runs perfectly on Cedega. I didn't try other games yet with Wine or Cedega.

[rekahsoft]

I personaly would not buy cedega...if you want to u could get it from subversion but i recommend you use Wine. It is the best :)

[OffHand]

I personaly would not buy cedega...if you want to u could get it from subversion but i recommend you use Wine. It is the best :)

Cedega from subversion sucks. It's not an option.

[Sammi]

I have bought Cedega in the past. Then I gave Wine a go, and found it works just as well a Cedega, only it's open source and free of charge ;)

Haven't heard good things about SVN Cedega. To be specific I heard it doesn't work well and has no documentation.

Wine on the other hand in very well documented. Even better than mainline Cedega IMO.

[Pnikosis]

Uhm, thanks for the replies... I will give Wine a try. But I think I will stay with Windows installed for DirectX games.

[diepruis]

Uhm, thanks for the replies... I will give Wine a try. But I think I will stay with Windows installed for DirectX games.

From what I've heard, Counter Strike: Source will work with Wine, but you have to jump through some hoops to get it running. Go check out this site: http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=counterstrike

[echinacea]

Guild Wars and City of Heroes/Villains runs perfectly on Cedega. I didn't try other games yet with Wine or Cedega.

i never did get CoV to run with Cedega or Wine. Since that was the only program that I wanted to use and couldnt run with Ubuntu....I re-installed Windoze. :(

Cedega support eventually replied to my support request about a month and a half later saying perhaps I should reinstall such and such and so forth....I forget what they said because it was so after the fact.

Maybe it was my graphic card and the driver installation from Nvidia

Wish i could get it working.....maybe Linux drivers will be more established in a few more releases (until then I dont have weeks of patience to be shooting in the dark trying out options at random)

[Mongoose]

I know Halflife 2 is used as a test bed for a lot of D3D issues in wine (hq). It seems to be all the developers working on d3d talk about heh. I love being able to play Oblivion again, but it's sometimes hard to reproduce your results for others. All the Windows games I have run under Wine.

I'd still perfer native ports by far, but after working on a Windows PC title I can see where you can't spend the time and/or money on ports if you do something like base your engine around DirectX. Now with OS X selling 1/5 PCs since last year maybe this will change. If you target OpenGL it's easy to support both OS X and Linux depending on what API layers you target.