Ne1 a Cedega member?

With reading quite a bit from it, looks like it's a good service to have and they dedicate them selves to games only. What do you all think about them and their service?

 

I had considered purchasing Cedega, but I decided to buy CrossOver Professional instead. The deciding factors for me was that CrossOver Pro is useful in school, and also Codeweavers does a whole lot more for the WINE project than Cedega does.

From what I've heard, Cedega doesn't give much back to the open source community. CrossOver, on the other hand, is very well-integrated with the WINE project. They use a substantial part of their profit to fund other WINE developers, as well as providing technical feedback.

Just my $0.02

Check their compat listings to see who has better support for the applications you want. That's really the best way to decide.

 

Just want to post I got Crysis Warhead running in Cedega. Runs nice too! I will see how it handles later on in the game. I think thats no easy feat in my book, as it is, some people had issues getting it to run stable within Windows.

Spoke to soon it takes me to desktop when you actually going to play the level. Back to the drawing board.

 

So I bought Cedega in the hopes of getting l4d up, but it doesn't render the fonts in Steam. It's been nearly a week and Cedega support has not replied to me yet.

 

what do you mean? The fonts should work fine, they dont look very nice but u can copy the real ones and paste them in the font directory on the path u installed it. C drive, windows, and u will see fonts. I did not have to copy them to make them work. What you see.

 

I used the Steam gddb and installed the steam.msi, but when I actually ran it, no fonts were visible. I tried copying Steam's tahoma fonts into the font directory, but without change. At first I suspected it was my cleartype-patched cairo libraries causing the problem, but considering that Steam fonts are fully visible in CrossOver and wine, I don't see why they should be.

 

Did you disable your 3d effect in gnome? I have mine disabled. Also post this in the cedega forums, the people are quite helpful and with a popular game like this youll get an answer. Never seen that before..

 

BTW got Crysis Warhead working, It was a ingame setting that I had to change to medium instead of high.

 

How does it play? Also should say that the guys over at Cedega are idiots. I'd rather pay for Crossover Games than buy their product.

 

Care to expound?

 

Read the wiki on them, they don't contribute back to Wine and all they do is mooch of their code.

 

sounds like you meant "capitalist" and not "idiot"

idiot would imply that they release a poorly designed and inferior product.

you definitely mean "capitalist" or even "selfish capitalist"

 

Yep, sounds pretty smart to me.

 

Archer did you get the Steam fonts working btw? So far I am impress with what Cedega has given me the ability to do. I cant complaint about them. I play WoW, Defence Gris, Crysis Warhead, Left 4 Dead, and Half life 2 episodes. I have no miss Windows at all.. BTW 1 month WITHOUT WINDOWS all Linux here.

 

Yep, I did a complete rework of my system and now I play l4d on linux. It is pretty sick, I gotta admit.

 

How did you get Left4Dead to work? It's not even working in WINE....you should publish your hacks so that they can incorporate them in WINE.

 

He is using Cedega to make it work. Thats the reason I play on Cedega, they make the games I want to play work on Linux. I did try to run it on Wine, and it did ran kinda, but it was skipping frames and crash at random.

 

Cool story bro.

 

Here's a plug for Crossover games - got Steam Half Life and a lot of other games working flawlessly.
For those who dont know Crossover Pro vs Crossover Games is that CXGames is bleeding edge, while Pro is stable.
I very strongly recommend them - I especially like the fact that they create a "bottle" (a directory) which contains your install and configurations, etc.
You can simply copy over the bottle to another machine to get the exact thing working - no more app reinstalls!

 

Every purchase of CrossOver Pro includes CXGames . I bought Pro via academic discount, and CXGames is in my downloads page. I love CrossOver, it runs my productivity apps with ease, but I opted to get Cedega for games, because CXGames doesn't work with the one and only Windows game I play: Left 4 Dead.

 

I'm having an issue with not being able to type into the Steam chat window. It worked once, but never again. Have you ever had that problem?

 

Hmm I notice sometime i have to click a couple of times, something that I read in the Cedega forums, is to make sure you have nothing touching none of the boxes. Once I make sure every box is clear of touching everything works much better.

 

Guys I have something cool for you guys to use, tell me how it works.

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/

 

Two days and no one's said anything about it? Damn.

 

Calvin I read about it before I got Cedega. You can pick different engines before you load the game. So you can have different version of wine on it. I saw some screenies with cedega engines also on it. So you can have both I guess. I have everything running great in cedega I don't see me messing with it. Looks like it's another good solution if there is a game that cedega can't run and wine can.

 

I had UT running in Libranet Linux in 2001....there used to something similar where you download a specific file to load a specific game...can't remember the name, but they're not around any more....worked great back then.....somewhere here last year mentioned them....drawing a big blank...what else is new....