http://www.osnews.com/story/16013/Mandriva_2007_To_Play_Windows_Games Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:55:28 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?166856 http://osnews.com/thread?166856 Cedega currently only works with a small handful of titles, and poorly with most of those at that.

Mandriva including this software (and probably only in the expensive box sets) isn't going to do much. Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (eggman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?166869 http://osnews.com/thread?166869 And even fewer of those games run well with the ATI drivers.

Seriously, WINE is now almost as good as Cadega with games but far better at anything else.

None of this will matter though when developers migrate to .NET and managed DX10; both Wine and Cadega wont work at all once this happens. Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Xaero_Vincent) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?166891 http://osnews.com/thread?166891 developers need to write Linux only games, of couse the down side is....no games for windows Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (historyb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?166931 http://osnews.com/thread?166931 their Winerack package during the 9.1 days was inspired. I wish they would do it again.

congrats to Mandriva. Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (REMF) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?166940 http://osnews.com/thread?166940 Got that right. If you want to play Windows games and run Linux on the same machine, you really need a dual-boot setup. This isn't likely to change ... ever. Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WorknMan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167066 http://osnews.com/thread?167066 While this isn't an option for hardcore gamers it's very nice for people who want to play a windows game now and then.Smart move nonetheless. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167131 http://osnews.com/thread?167131 CrossOver 6.0 will support Steam based games as well as WoW, I use Wine to play games as it is "Open Source" and TG knows nothing about supporting Wine, they have not contributed to Wine in about four years now.

I would suggest trying your game first in Wine * as its free* then try a demo of CrossOver its also *free* to try. and if it works in CX help support Wine by purchasing a copy of CX.
They do give 95%+ of there changes back to the Wine project.

Then a duel boot.... and give TG the bird

If you want to help improve Wine here is a little DX todo that I have on our Wiki.

http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectX-ToDo

Come join the FUN! Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (twickline) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167132 http://osnews.com/thread?167132 We plan to support DX 10 when it's released .. And also port DX 10 to Windows XP so windows users can play there games, just like Linux users. This was all discussed at this years WineConf.

http://www.winehq.org/?issue=320

Also see [D3D](d3d10) : http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectX-ToDo Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (twickline) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167252 http://osnews.com/thread?167252 Indeed, and this alone will make Linux a viable upgrade for Win XP users, instead of being forced to upgrade to Vista for DX10. Like they are currently looking at. Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (raver31) Comments