The popular distribution formerly known as Mandrake will include in its next 2007 release Transgaming’s Cedega engine to play mainstream Windows gaming titles out of the box. For those not familiar with Transgaming the company has worked for years on a WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator) derivative to empower Linux users to run Windows games natively on the Linux desktop. In the meantime, CrossOver beta 2 has been released for Linux.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
developers need to write Linux only games, of couse the down side is….no games for windows
their Winerack package during the 9.1 days was inspired. I wish they would do it again.
congrats to Mandriva.
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.
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
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