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[James Le Cuirot]

I think many Linux users have a Cedega subscription but not so many
admit it in a hurry. It was controversial to begin with and it's even
more controversial now. They used to have a strong case with things like
Steam and World of Warcraft but now regular Wine can run both of those
just fine. Cedega is based off extremely old Wine code and the
differences between them are really starting to show. One example is 2D
graphics. Red Alert 2 runs far better on Wine than it does on Cedega.
Another example is the registry code. It's been totally rewritten
but Cedega still uses (and probably always will use) the old code. It
fails to read the registry settings saved by Black & White, meaning
that you can't change the details settings and subsequently, I can't
turn off the effect that's making the game run like a dog every time
the sun comes into view. Admittedly, Wine doesn't run the game at all
but it does manage to read the registry when you run the configuration
program. With so many more games now working in regular Wine, it won't
be long before I, and probably many others, decide to cancel our
subscriptions. The copy protection alone won't be enough to justify it
because a quick visit to megagames.com almost always solves that
problem. Cracking the games isn't an ideal solution but it's better
than wasting money on a subscription.

Okay rant over. Not meaning to spread FUD or anything, this is just my
opinion on the matter. (-;

Chewi


On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:19:53 +0800
"Nistur Effee" <nistur at karate.com> wrote:
> 
> Like I said, I will do something if people want, I am by no means an
> expert at Cedega, or anything Linux related for that matter really.
> But if people think it will help then I suppose I could. However I
> think it would be beneficial for someone to have a system with a
> problem to bring it in as the same problem is unlikely to be fixed in
> exactly the same way on two computers. Obviously easiest would be a
> laptop. Also, I am lead to believe WoW works quite happily off wine
> on it's own, without using WineX/Cedega. I can't say I've tried, nor
> am likely to as, being the poor student I am, can't be bothered to
> pay monthly fees. Oh, and all information for installing most games
> under cedega is linked to in their games database.