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11-19-2005, 04:13 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Distribution: Fedora Project 4
Posts: 24
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Is there a DirectX for Linux? or something simular?
Hey, I heard a rumor thats theres no DirectX for Linux? if this is true, that means no games will work... Or is there something simular?
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11-19-2005, 04:15 PM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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Er, you heard a rumour that Microsoft, who despise Linux, haven't ported their proprietary graphics engine to Linux... funny that...
http://transgaming.com
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11-19-2005, 04:17 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Distribution: Fedora Project 4
Posts: 24
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oh so will this work with World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike Source and all that other stuff? or wait... is this a distro??
Last edited by FD_Doc; 11-19-2005 at 04:19 PM.
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11-19-2005, 04:33 PM
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 19,192
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Read the site. It's a program to help you run Windows games in Linux.
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11-19-2005, 05:58 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Distribution: Fedora Project 4
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It says i have to buy this thing... or register or something
Last edited by FD_Doc; 11-19-2005 at 06:16 PM.
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11-19-2005, 06:58 PM
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Kent, England
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 19,192
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Yes, that is correct. You have to pay to use the full version - about $5 minimum. There is also a free version (CVS version) but that takes some setting up and is missing some of the features.
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11-19-2005, 07:10 PM
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Registered: May 2004
Location: Australia
Distribution: Gentoo
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$15 minimum - you need to pay for a three month subscription.
If you plan on playing CS: Source or anything the requires Steam I suggest you sign up for good. Valve make regular updates to Steam and they tend to break compatibility with Cedega. The Transgaming team usually fixes the problem on the same day but to have access to the updates you need to be a subscriber.
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11-19-2005, 07:46 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Distribution: Fedora Project 4
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So, im looking at alot of money here, isnt there anything else? or does everyone use this..
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11-19-2005, 08:20 PM
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You could try normal Wine and if you look around their mailing list there are a few DX9 patches floating around. Another option is this but it is lacking a few features that real Cedega has. Mostly though, this is what people use. A lot of people who want to play games just dual-boot, those who don't want to dual-boot (like myself) use Cedega.
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11-19-2005, 08:40 PM
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Registered: Apr 2005
Location: London
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Also bear in mind your graphics card, some are a right pain to get 3D acceleration etc. working like ATI cards, and you won't be able to play those games without proper graphics functions.
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11-20-2005, 03:29 AM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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Quote:
Originally posted by FD_Doc
It says i have to buy this thing... or register or something
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Wow, that shows a huge depth of understanding...
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11-20-2005, 03:37 AM
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Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Helsinki
Distribution: Debian Sid
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You could also take a look at http://www.frankscorner.org/
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11-20-2005, 03:47 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Distribution: Fedora Project 4
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Well I unpackaged and installed from frankscorner, ill see how it works out
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11-20-2005, 07:48 AM
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Location: UK
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it won't. you might get a couple of games to work, they'll have glitches, you'll get frustrated, say Linux is rubbish and go back to Windows. Use Cedega or don't bother. There is a free CVS version of cedega available, but again, you'll probably have a LOT of diffuculty even getting that installed.
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11-20-2005, 07:53 AM
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Registered: Aug 2005
Location: /home/teebones
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also check if the game has native linux versions aviable. (this way you don't need Cedega or other workarounds to get the game going)
e.g. to name a few: Doom 3 / Quake 1 2 3 4 / America's army have them freely aviable (the executables that is.. not the game content itself  )
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