Gaming in Linux part 1 - with Cedega

Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 bit 2.5Ghz
1 gig of ram
ATI Radeon 9800xt
19in. LCD
1280x1024 resolution

I'm running Ubuntu 6.10
and
Cedega 6.0.2


first video:

Need for Speed Carbon (NFSC)
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (GTASA)

second video:

Flatout 2 (FO2)
Call of Duty United Offensive (CoDUO)


Third video:

Extra Call of Duty United Offensive online footage.

I have the drivers for my graphics card, something that must be done for this to work. If you're unsure of how to install your drivers, or have any other questions, go to www(dot)ubuntucorner(dot)freeforums(dot)org

I wanted to use the camera to show you how the game play works, cause the screen recorder makes it lagy, and I can't capture sound.

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[weedyapl]

at the end of the day tho this is still emulation as your using CPU just to translate system calls... i wouldnt call those games smooth either...

Its really a shame tho if linux had better driver support (dont get me wrong its come a long way but it still falls short imo) and game designer support for the platform id change in a second im a total advocate of free software and i work for a large software provider :P

i love open office and ubuntu but as for gaming sorry but its windows only

[StJimmyPyro]

Windows only?

Pfff... stop being silly. Read the Wine wiki page, it's not and emulator, Linux is running the games, and MANY of them run damn well.

:D

[dudeeeeee16]

I must go with weedyapl,altough I'm typing this from a swell tune Ubuntu machine and I hardly log into win 7 anymore,I must say that wine is still an emulator,as it "translates" the windows API layer,and that's basically what an emulator does......Also have Ubuntu on my eeepc,but the lost performance from wine is a real killer that even nfs 6 won't run.....I can hardly feel it on my core2quad though

[StJimmyPyro]

WINE itself is an acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator :P

[Z80Fan]

You're wrong. An emulator would emulate the entire x86 cpu (opcodes, modes, mmu...), like the VICE emulator does for the Commodore 64. But Wine is only a way to load the windows executable (in PE format) in linux, then letting it work like a normal Linux app. The "translation" is only provide the correct DLLs patched in a way that if the Win app calls a DLL function (for ex. Open() ), the modded DLL would call the proper Linux function to get the operation done. I hope it's clear. :D

[razor005]

Wine doesnt emulate the games. It translates the windows language to Linux so that Ubuntu and other linux based OS's can play the games.

[Savpether]

@StJimmyPyro

We know it, WINE implemant WIN API but it stiil take you CPU for translate system calls and OPEN GL rules to DirectX.

[Nek0TheCat]

@weedyapl it is not exactly emulation. to stay technically wine and cedega are API's for running exe compiled files on operating systems based on the linux kernel. it sure translates, but thats not the way emulation works. its just an interface for exe's

[Winnman05]

@weedyapl It's not an emulator.

[aveil2998]

@weedyapl ok I hate to say it but windows games and other stuff isn't just for windows. YOu need to look around a little some of the time but you can play widows games like Crysis, Call of duty 4, Maplestory Flyff etc.

[ChasingFlies]

Yea my quad core and radeon 5770 get really laggy performance with wine in ubuntu :(

[kris10ish]

@StJimmyPyro nop

[69jizzem]

Why does it mater if whine is an emulator or not, some people are way to sensitive!

[SonOfTheSystem]

Does games like WOW work better through Cedega than Wine? Now im using Wine and the graphics are low for some reason...

[kyle9772]

can you play the sims 2 with cedega

[adamz1988]

i use ubuntu for everything, but for aoe2..