i usually play on free servers havent played on main servers in a while

i've had mixed experiences with cedega in the past. i should point out it's about 6 months since i last used cedega properly, but a number of the games i play either didn't work or didn't work well. Half Life 2 seemed to do ok however.

my last install of cedega seemed to be a bit crippled, (i used the free cvs build thingy) and i cldn't get anything to install which was a shame.

in my experience, when cedega works with a particular game it does so quite capably, but i've just found it to be a little too hit and miss

Yep, I used FC for awhile, and from my experience, I have to agree. I even had issues playing native games like Doom3 and Planeshift. ALSA, for whatever reason was broken in most of my games, and I had to use oss sound drivers in both, just to get sound. This made Planeshift very unstable.

I paid for Cedega and have had mixed results, like I think most people have. I think I could only get openGL rendered games to work (shocking, I know) in Cedega under Fedora. I just the other day switched to Kubuntu, and I am enjoying it so far (didn't have the ALSA issues). I'll post again when I've gotten around to tinkering with Cedega in Kubuntu.

FWIW, I've noticed a great number of people who've posted their problems with a particular game on the Transgaming forum end up getting the game to work after a bit of discussion-- often by changing that particular game profile's Winversion, Cedega engine version, use of pthreads, command line options, debug options etc.

Also, I woulnd't bother with compiling from CVS, unless you are particularly massochistic

yeah, that's kinda been the one thing that used to bug me about linux, when you come to compile something and you get an message saying it needs a certain library, so you go to install that library then it says it needs some other library and so on and so on. it's why i like rpms.... much easier, also tools like urpmi in mandriva and the get in ubuntu certainly save on the headaches

so compiling cedega from cvs is def not fun

Well, while I believe the intention of Transgaming is good, Cedega did absolutely nothing for me. I couldn't get any of my favorite games to run on it (except for Diablo II, and the install was somewhat painful).

What's worse is the tech support. Finding help there is pretty tough and when I had a problem I had more luck getting information here at LQ.org then I did on their own forums.

The computer is suppose to serve a person's need. It doesn't matter how you get the computer to serve you, as long as you get it to work and be happy. If you want to play a computer game what does it matter if you are using Windows or Linux? Of course there are the ethical questions that are called in about Windows, a huge monopoly, that people would say it did matter whether you used Windows or not. But if you already have a perfectly legal copy of Windows and want to play games with as little hassle as possible then use Windows, the platform that most likely the game you want to play is designed for.

Personally, I play native Linux games on my Linux box and if a game isn't designed with a native installer for Linux, I just pass it up. I hope in the future game developers work on games for ALL platforms, not just Linux. The beauty of Linux is that it offers a choice and when it comes to gaming, I would want a choice of what system I had to use to play a game. I don't like only being able to play Final Fantasy games on my PS2. But that's getting off topic.

Whatever you choose to do, good luck!

Chalk me up as another 'mixed results' vote for Cedega. I've used several versions of Cedega on several versions of Suse (9.1 through 10.1). The results have been mixed.

On the one hand, getting my fav' Windows games working in non-windows environments borders on a supernatural, quasi-religious experience. I hated WoW, but I reactivated my account just because I could play it on my 'nix box.

On the other hand, configuring even a "well supported" game can be extremely frustrating, and some games just aren't going to play at all. Additionally, even when you get a game working, you generally have to sacrifice a level of quality. On my good gaming box, I was, eventually, able to get Guild Wars working, but I had to dial-back the graphical-goodies. Zone loading is painful and I get some mid-combat lag.

Is it worth $5/mon (or $15 flat, etc)? Eh. $5 doesn't feel like a lot. That's a couple of cokes, or a gallon of gas these days. Cedega does help. I find it easier to use than Wine, most of the time. But it's still a long way from being able to drop my Windows partition.

Yes, that guy (me ) used a cvs version of cedega, you don't need anything, just the cvs version of cedega and a copy of an installed version of WoW (I can't install wow directly with cedega).

You will have to update the Windows version first before playing as the updater doesn't work (again...), well at least it didn't work for me...

im running WoW through cedega on fc5. i tried for months to get WoW working through wine, winecvs and everything in between. in the end, though i hate paying for software, cedega is a project worth supporting and $15 really isn't much. for the cost of one month of WoW (or 3 beers at the bar) i can just be done with the headache and have WoW working on linux. the only downside is that i get a pretty low framerate - down to 5fps in pvp-heavy situations - but on the upside i have no use for windows anymore, and thats a good feeling. i do have a pretty old video card, which is a big reason for the fps drop, but i spend enough on WoW that i cant justify buying a new video card just for that.

You don't have to pay for cedega cvs...so you can drink those 3 beers without feeling guilty :P