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Sam.T
April 1st, 2007, 07:55 AM
(I bet I have spelt emmulator wrong :confused: :confused: :lolflag: )

Could someone please tell me if there is a emmulator that allows you to play windows games on linux??
1/0
April 1st, 2007, 08:00 AM
The easiest ones are Cedega Transgaming and Codeweavers Crossover Linux. Both proprietary emulators. One free emulator is Wine.
M$LOL
April 1st, 2007, 08:20 AM
Crossover sucks for games. I recommend Wine. It's free, so if you don't like it, you won't have wasted anything.

IMO, cedega is not worth paying for. It's really not that great, Wine is just as good and is improving. If you really want cedega, compile the CVS yourself.
Artificial Intelligence
April 1st, 2007, 09:28 AM
The CVS version doesn't contains all the cool stuff that Cedega pay version have. Then wine is a better option.
Sammi
April 1st, 2007, 03:41 PM
Definitively Wine over CedegaCVS! CedegaCVS doesn't have a GUI nor proprietary bits that are the only real values of Cedega.

Check this page to for info on how well games run in Wine, as well as installation instructions for many of them: http://appdb.winehq.org/

Transgaming boasts with the fact that there is real commercial support for Cedega, but in my experience Wine has far better support provided by the community. I have paid for Cedega once and I am never doing it again. It was a horrible experience where a company promised more than they delivered.
.oops
April 1st, 2007, 06:51 PM
Just keep in mind that Wine is not a emulator. ;)
http://www.winehq.com/site/myths
leech
April 1st, 2007, 10:48 PM
Actually the new Crossover 6 does support games like half-life 2, etc. They are all based on the hard work of Wine. The main differences between wine and Cedega would be the graphical interface and the copy protection stuff (basically in Wine most of the time you'll need a 'no-cd' crack.)

Leech
Sammi
April 2nd, 2007, 03:20 AM
...(basically in Wine most of the time you'll need a 'no-cd' crack.)

LeechYeah. Even for legit games :)
1/0
April 2nd, 2007, 03:47 AM
Yeah. Even for legit games :)

LoL
M$LOL
April 2nd, 2007, 05:40 AM
Actually the new Crossover 6 does support games like half-life 2, etc. They are all based on the hard work of Wine. The main differences between wine and Cedega would be the graphical interface and the copy protection stuff (basically in Wine most of the time you'll need a 'no-cd' crack.)

Leech

What confuses me is that Crossover is based on Wine, yet it can't run games at all. I have had much better success with Wine (ie they actually install) vs Crossover. Although I haven't tried Crossover 6. Can it run more games than Wine?
1/0
April 2nd, 2007, 05:45 AM
Hey, Sam. I just realized, maybe we're not answering your question? You've been so quiet.
Iarwain ben-adar
April 2nd, 2007, 06:40 AM
Sshh!

Leave Sam alone,
don't you see he is busy gaming?


Iarwain
1/0
April 2nd, 2007, 07:34 AM
Sshh!

Leave Sam alone,
don't you see he is busy gaming?


Iarwain

LoL!
I who thought it was about helping, dough! ;-)
Sammi
April 2nd, 2007, 06:12 PM
ehhh... ok... anything special that needs such pressing attention?
lbyrd33
April 2nd, 2007, 06:52 PM
I think it is much more efficient to use a virtual machine (vmware or virtualbox) to run all windows programs. These programs run windows pretty fast is you have at least 512 mb ram with around 200 devoted to the virtualbox. Ive been pretty unimpressed with the wine/cedega as they are not supporting many new games. If you want to wait a year to play the games then I guess they are ok.