Just how good is Cedega?

[aldenhg]

I'm on the fence over whether or not I should take the plunge and buy Cedega. I just want to make sure that games like Half-Life 2 are going to look as awesome as they do in Windows. Will I get all the pretty HDR and lighting effects of does Cedega not support that kind of thing yet? If it makes a difference, my hardware is a 3Ghz p4, 3 gigs of RAM and a GeForce 7600GS.

[lordhebe]

Well for Half-life 2 wine will do just fine, you can't use HDR with cedega on any games, but on some games (like oblivion) you are able to enable more eye-candy than on wine. (Pretty water) I'm not going to comment on whether you should buy it or not though, as I'm on the fence myself over which is better, I'll leave it to someone else to flame.

[justin whitaker]

It's ok. I subscribe to it, but it is nowhere near as good as the hype...200 supported games? I don't know what system they use, but I think it is actually more like 20. It is certainly not a panacea as they purport it to be, nor is it necessarily a drop in replacement for Windows Gaming. Games do run on it, however, with some tinkering.

If you want to crank up the visuals on a Windows game....stick to windows. HDR and other sorts of shading technologies are still not fully implemented in Cedega, and probably never will be. Very complex beast to reverse engineer.

Now, for my tastes, which are "does this puppy run?", Cedega is fine. I use it for Guild Wars, Steam, and a few other things (System Shock 2) and it runs perfectly well, and looks and sounds fine once I get the game to run.

You might want to look at Crossover Office for Steam titles, if only because cxoffice seems to be less rattled by updates to Steam than WINE or Cedega. HL2 and WoW looks pretty fine on it too, but then again, my standards are low! :)

(And yes, I have 2 installs of Steam, mainly so I can see the difference between them)

[Swab]

Is it not possible to get the Cadega sources and compile yourself? Would give you an idea of how it's gonna work for you.

[misconfiguration]

Cedega doesn't offer the sources anymore you must subscribe $15 bucks to start then $5 bucks a month, who can't afford that?

Here is my personal review when Cedega 6.0 first came out, this was my first real try at Linux gaming, mind you I'm playing, BF2, Oblivion, Starcraft and World of Warcraft with no issues at all :).

misconfigurations Cedega Review (http://misconfig.blogspot.com/2007/04/cedega-mini-review.html)

[Lord Illidan]

Cedega doesn't offer the sources anymore you must subscribe $15 bucks to start then $5 bucks a month, who can't afford that?

Here is my personal review when Cedega 6.0 first came out, this was my first real try at Linux gaming, mind you I'm playing, BF2, Oblivion, Starcraft and World of Warcraft with no issues at all :).

misconfigurations Cedega Review (http://misconfig.blogspot.com/2007/04/cedega-mini-review.html)

I can't afford it, for one...no credit cards, and my parents are very heavy handed on using their credit card for that sort of thing.

Personally, I would dualboot..

[misconfiguration]

I can't afford it, for one...no credit cards, and my parents are very heavy handed on using their credit card for that sort of thing.

Personally, I would dualboot..

Glad to see there is plenty of smartass' out there. I'm sure you could find a way to pay for it if you wanted to, such as mow the lawn for $5 a month and get yourself a pre-paid visa and pay for it that way? Dunno just a suggestion, I think you should try it IMO.

[buttons]

Glad to see there is plenty of smartass' out there. I'm sure you could find a way to pay for it if you wanted to, such as mow the lawn for $5 a month and get yourself a pre-paid visa and pay for it that way? Dunno just a suggestion, I think you should try it IMO.

Might not be old enough to get one, but don't try to see it their way :roll:

On topic, I also subscribe to it, and as far as I can tell it's useful for playing Civ4. Which I don't much. But if I wanted to, boy it's certainly loaded in my cedega box and waiting.

CS 1.6 has miserable performance in cedega vs wine, so I don't bother there. My advice is if wine doesn't play it and you HAVE to have it and cedega claims to support it perfectly, then yes, it's worth it. Maybe.

[misconfiguration]

Might not be old enough to get one, but don't try to see it their way :roll:

On topic, I also subscribe to it, and as far as I can tell it's useful for playing Civ4. Which I don't much. But if I wanted to, boy it's certainly loaded in my cedega box and waiting.

CS 1.6 has miserable performance in cedega vs wine, so I don't bother there. My advice is if wine doesn't play it and you HAVE to have it and cedega claims to support it perfectly, then yes, it's worth it. Maybe.

You know I thought of that before I was going to post that message sounding like an ***, but there is no age restrictions to buy a PRE-PAID visa card mate. You give them cash, they put it on plastic, like a 'universal' gift card. :)

As far as your post goes, that's very true, it's up to everyone. How important is it to jump onto a new platform, to me it was dire.

[aldenhg]

Thanks all for the varying opinions.
I've tried installing the CVS version of Cedega, but it never quite worked properly. Of course, I only later saw that Cedega requires an Nvidia GPU and my 7600GS won't arrive until tomorrow or the day after. I figure when it arrives I'll give it another go and see if I don't just want to break down and buy myself a susbscription.
Speaking of subscription, I'm not exactly sure on how their subscription model works. If I get, say, a 3 month subscription and then after 3 months I decide I don't really need any new versions will I still be able to use the version I have on my computer or will I have to keep paying if I want to keep playing?

[sx66gns]

I'm on the fence over whether or not I should take the plunge and buy Cedega. I just want to make sure that games like Half-Life 2 are going to look as awesome as they do in Windows. Will I get all the pretty HDR and lighting effects of does Cedega not support that kind of thing yet? If it makes a difference, my hardware is a 3Ghz p4, 3 gigs of RAM and a GeForce 7600GS.

Wow runs perfect in Codeweavers , for others i have a dualboot with Xp Pro Msconfig'd for a clean reboot chopped and hacked to death for playing games and games only , takes a minute or two to boot over , run the game then boot back over to Ubuntu.

[AndrewRiedi]

What is the difference between Wine, Crossover Linux, and Cedega?

Wine is where most of the work is being done, and is a beta software project that is intended mainly for developers, testers, and early adopters at the moment. However, many people are able to use "vanilla" Wine successfully to run various programs such as Diablo II, Steam, WinRAR and even World of Warcraft.

Crossover Linux is a product made by CodeWeavers that is based on Wine. CodeWeavers employs a large portion of the Wine developers, including the lead developer, who is in charge of deciding which patches get into Wine. Codeweavers also makes a Mac version of Crossover.

Cedega is a product from Transgaming that was originally meant for gaming. Transgaming forked Wine back in 2002 when Wine had a different license, and give back little code to Wine. Cedega is not just "Wine with more gaming support" - many games run better under Wine than Cedega. Currently, Wine has more advanced Direct3D support than Cedega, but Cedega still has more advanced copy protection support whereas Wine and Crossover Linux/Mac do not.

^^ My answer discussing the various options a user has at running Windows games under Linux. I originally wrote it on the WineHQ Wiki FAQ (http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ)

[misconfiguration]

Thanks all for the varying opinions.
I've tried installing the CVS version of Cedega, but it never quite worked properly. Of course, I only later saw that Cedega requires an Nvidia GPU and my 7600GS won't arrive until tomorrow or the day after. I figure when it arrives I'll give it another go and see if I don't just want to break down and buy myself a susbscription.
Speaking of subscription, I'm not exactly sure on how their subscription model works. If I get, say, a 3 month subscription and then after 3 months I decide I don't really need any new versions will I still be able to use the version I have on my computer or will I have to keep paying if I want to keep playing?

You'll be able to keep using it, you just won't have access to the games database and future upgrades. So essentially you just get left in the dust.