Is Cedega Good?

Legomax · #1 19th August 2006, 05:04 AM

Im thinking about getting Cedega to play video games... Is it good?

07dcolem · #2 19th August 2006, 06:40 AM

What games do you want to play?
It works great if the game you want to play is officially supported.

pete_1967 · #3 19th August 2006, 12:40 PM

http://cedegawiki.sweetleafstudios.com/wiki/Main_Page and http://transgaming.org/forum/

before you decide to buy it.

I personally tried it once and found it to be a bit of a scam simply because they are very good at not letting you know which games they support and where to look for unbiased info before you pay. Then after you pay your subscription, you suddenly find out that game you hoped to play with it isn't and will never be supported...

#4 19th August 2006, 04:03 PM

use the cvs version of it..

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...WTO+Cedega+CVS

mlavalle · #5 19th August 2006, 05:47 PM

It depends on what games you want to play. As an earlier poster said, check out the Cedega wiki to find out if the games you're interested in will work. I use Cedega and find it to be a worthwhile investment.

djselbeck · #6 19th August 2006, 07:04 PM

Hello,

i think it is not good, because transgaming pirates wines source code. The forked wine but gives nothing back to the wine project. They make money with the work of others. Transgaming is really unfair to the wine-project. If you can i would think it is better if you don't use transgamings cedega. It is not worth the money. Try wines directX emulation or don't play this games :-)(ok this could probally be not ok) but don't pay 5$ per month.

DJSelbeck

Ps.: This is only my opinion.

Legomax · #7 19th August 2006, 07:11 PM

they support most of the games i play, but then you say that they stole info from wine. the only prob i see with wine is that in order to install a new version of wine you have to delete the older version (which would be a slight inconvienence, though i am not sure whether or not this is true.

wait, with wine can you play all microsoft games?

beer_hunter · #8 21st August 2006, 06:29 PM

I've got problem with cedega, can't run freetype :S so some games that use freetype won't work for me, some that don't are working, and strangest is that i've got both freetype and freetype-devel packages installed on my machine. any solution?

Legomax · #9 21st August 2006, 06:43 PM

no idea. wait around maybe some1 will answer

beer_hunter · #10 21st August 2006, 07:51 PM

so maybe some1 will post here his [font] cedega configuration file section, maybe i've got error there...

07dcolem · #11 4th November 2006, 10:12 PM

I see this thread has been dead for awhile, but I just thought i'd add that the new Crossover office beta supports WoW! I think you can download it without becoming a subscriber. I have now stopped using cedega!

http://www.codeweavers.com

nocture · #12 4th November 2006, 11:09 PM

Hi there
I have problem with cedega runing starcraft. When I open setup.exe this error occur:

Code:

cedega /media/BROODWAR/setup.exe 
/home/viktor/.cedega/.winex_ver/winex-5.1.3/winex/bin/wine: can't exec '/media/BROODWAR/setup.exe': error=21

When I run cdrom test this error occur:

Code:

A problem was detected with your CD/DVD-ROM devices.  Some or all copy protected games
may not work correctly with your drives.  Check the permissions on your CD/DVD-ROM device (in /dev). The device can be found in the /etc/fstab file.

In a terminal perform:

ls -la /dev/CDROM (where CDROM is the device for your system)

Make sure that all users have rx permissions.  If users do not have rx permissions then add the permissions by running

The device may be a symbolic link to a second device, for example:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Mar 23 05:50 /dev/cdrom -> hdc 

Here we can see that /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hdc.  Be sure to check permissions on the symbolically linked devices as well.

I don't have the mount button active in cedega.
Any suggestions?

sentry · #13 5th November 2006, 12:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djselbeck

Hello,

i think it is not good, because transgaming pirates wines source code. The forked wine but gives nothing back to the wine project. They make money with the work of others. Transgaming is really unfair to the wine-project. If you can i would think it is better if you don't use transgamings cedega. It is not worth the money. Try wines directX emulation or don't play this games :-)(ok this could probally be not ok) but don't pay 5$ per month.

DJSelbeck

Ps.: This is only my opinion.

Completely agree.

They're leaches so you can either be a leach and use their cvs build as someone has suggested (ironic, I suppose) or live with windows on a partition somewhere and dual boot.

Personally, I live with windows on a partition for gaming. It can be a pain in the ass to set Cedega and Wine up properly at times to play games as I think you are learning. Sometimes, it just ain't worth the hassle.