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| Thread ID: 74796 | 2006-12-05 09:49:00 | linux + windows games = failure? | motorbyclist (188) | Press F1 |
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| 504457 | 2006-12-06 05:00:00 | You didn't miss much. It was directed at estarriol, but someone in their ultimate wisdom didn't agree with me that his post was blatantly promoting a pay service for which he's an affiliate. Yes I thought he may have been a spammer too. Seems odd when people register and only make one post that happens to be promoting a product, doesn't it? :rolleyes: |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 504458 | 2006-12-06 05:35:00 | Paranoia seems to be rampant today on this thread. Open the search, and put Cedega into it, its been mentioned a few times before on this forum. Or is this now a conspiracy? Anyway, a majority of games will give you issues, however I know WoW, UT, and Quake will all run fine on either Wine or Cedega |
Myth (110) | ||
| 504459 | 2006-12-06 05:56:00 | Forget it. Everything is DirectX. Until they put DX into Linux you'd spend most of your time pulling your hair out. This (www.theinquirer.net) might be of interest. Hopefully something good will come if it, it would be great to see gaming available to those on alternative OS's. |
Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 504460 | 2006-12-17 08:05:00 | Cedega is the way to go for running doze games in linux. If you run a 64-bit linux version thats cool, you'll just hafta install _all_ the compatibility libraries (which is prolly only 20MB worth of downloading all-up), and it'll play all 32-bit games just the same :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 504461 | 2006-12-18 03:59:00 | Linux and "most" high end latest games don't work. Sure you can get a few to work with Wine and alike but it is generally a pain in the ass, support comes usually months after (if at all). As I dual boot Linux and can personally confirm this, Linux is hopeless for high end gaming. |
Master_Frost (9951) | ||
| 504462 | 2006-12-18 04:07:00 | Ive not had as bad an experience as you then... 9 / 10 games Ive tried with Cedega have worked fine :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 504463 | 2006-12-18 19:37:00 | Cedega Anyway, a majority of games will give you issues, however I know WoW, UT, and Quake will all run fine on either Wine or Cedega A majority. Exactly. People think hassles with Windows is bad enough but the stuffing around you go through trying to get a game to play properly with these emulators is far far worse. And you certainly can't just buy your game, go home and install it and run it on anything other than WIndows. Any game. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 504464 | 2006-12-18 20:26:00 | Absolutely! However for me, the time spent maintaining my OS such as anti-virus scans, degfragging, anti-spyware etc was far less than when compared to my familys PC. So much so that it made the extra couple of minutes taken to setup a game worth the trade-off ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 504465 | 2006-12-19 12:24:00 | As I dual boot Linux and can personally confirm this, Linux is hopeless for high end gaming. Linux is hopeless for playing Windows games. Unsurprisingly, Linux games run really well on it! |
TGoddard (7263) | ||
| 504466 | 2006-12-21 10:03:00 | Funny that, In my efforts the linux games ran crap as well, No doubt the fact that the 400 step process to install video card drivers didn't exactly go smoothly had an effect on it. | Metla (12) | ||
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