For some time transgamings product of cedega did do better at games that
wine. However, for over a year now wine has been vastly superior to
cedega. I left cedega, as you are paying for minor patches to fix
counter-strike and wow - neither of which i play.
Wine for me is largely for Dawn of War. However i have also spent the
time to get Stubbs the Zombie (and played it through, and posted on
appdb), Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 (played, added to appdb) and swat4
to run. I also play halflife2 mp from time to time.
Many of the aforementioned games dont even get close to working in
cedega, which meant apt-get remove cedega came as a very natural and
pleasurable experience.
Bottom line is that Transgaming is abandoning their customers in favour
of cider, their mac product.
Codeweavers drive wine, good work guys and gals. If i needed office i
would buy it!
But would someone please fix the mouse wrapping bug? :)
Dean
Jeremy White wrote:
Hi Mark,
Interesting and reasonably priced, but I'm not clear what's the
difference from standard Wine or Transgaming's Cedega?
Granted, I only scanned the immediate page and didn't do much study.
CrossOver is a polished and supported version of Wine. As such,
it's core is very similar to that of Wine. The primary difference
from Wine is that we test and insure that a given set of applications work well,
and then back that with our customer support.
Transgaming is based on an older version of Wine (although they
are increasingly bringing in parts of modern Wine as well), and also
includes some proprietary code. I'm rather biased, but I think that
modern Wine has now surpassed the proprietary bits that Transgaming
has, and that, on balance, Wine (and therefore CrossOver) is the
better overall gaming platform. With that said, there will be
quite a few cases where it works well in one place, but not the other,
and vice versa.
From a philosophical perspective, the other crucial difference
is that all of the work we do on Wine, we give back to WineHQ.
Transgaming has not had a history of doing the same.
Thus, a dollar spent on CrossOver is a dollar spent on a Wine
developer. Again, I'm extremely biased, but I think it's a more
wisely spent dollar <grin>.
Cheers,
Jeremy
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