Comments on: Using Cedega to play Windows games

By: Fryman

Fryman — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:20:52 +0000

I use Cedega to play my windows games and it does the job perfectly…

Ill admit though I dont play alot of pc games ive use Eve, Warcraft, Oblivion and Discworld Noir with no problems.

By: Rico

Rico — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:44:05 +0000

In my opinion its a waste of time. Might as well just run Windows for that. To many games doesn’t work in Cedega.

Some time ago I did manage to get Need for Speed Underground 2 running, but a lot of other titles didn’t work.

Running XP on a second HD or even partition is less of a headache.

By: michuk

michuk — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:18:03 +0000

DirectX is emulated in Linux/Cedega with OpenGL.

By: coolzgeek

coolzgeek — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:40:24 +0000

Actually installing a game is useless on linux. Linux uses OpenGl which is almost nothing compared to DirectX 9. I’m not saying that OpenGL is bad but if you can get the game on better graphics, why not?

By: Paul Zirie

Paul Zirie — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:55:17 +0000

Why doesn’t Rhapsody work on these?

By: michuk

michuk — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:17:59 +0000

Yep, of course it should have been “few years”. Corrected.

By: zly

zly — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:37:21 +0000

In the last few months true alternatives have appeared: Cedega and CrossOverOffice

If you by “last few months”, mean “last few years” or even last decade, I’ll second that opinion

It might also be worth noting that both Cedega and CrossOver are commercial and proprietary products, while Wine is non-commercial, and released under the LGPL.

Personal opinion:
Both Cedega and CrossOver are great products, but Wine, for the most part, gets the job done as well.