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meinzorn

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I think I am going to install Ubuntu linux on my computer as an alternative to Windows at least temporarily. I play games often and I was just wondering if anyone could give me some advice on gaming in linux. Mostly what I'm looking for is IF steam apps (CSS/HL2) Will work using cedega, and if it is a horribly difficult task.

thanks in advance.
 
Well, Cedega is getting better every day, but it just simply cannot accommodate you.

If your a gamer, then you'll need to keep Windows around for gaming. You can do pretty much everything else yopu could ever want to do in Ubuntu.... But you'll want to keep windows on one partition for playing your games.

Dont get me wrong, Linux has alot of cool games, but Windows has most of the popular PC games that just wont run right on anything else. Sure you might be able to get this game or that game to work with Cedega, but it is far from consistent.

My advise is to use Linux as your main desktop, but keep Windows on a seperate partition for gaming.
 
well, to be honest.. the only one that I really give a damn about is counter strike. Other than that I don't really care if they work.. anyone know if CSS works?
 
It may run it. Go check out the wine list, and see if anybody else got it to run....

Here is link for you to check out. It looks like it has a gold rating, so you may be able to run it....

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=871

But keep in mind it is a DX game, which wine cant handle very well just yet. It may work, so try it and see how it goes for you.
 
well, I'm probably going to just give Cedega a try for now.. I installed Ubuntu (on it now actually) and I'm going to give Cedega a try, it's just 15$.. I'll post the results here when I'm done testing and stuff.

I'm not trying to get the best results that I can get out of it.. I just want it to run. I don't even care if it looks crappy.
 
meinzorn said:
well, I'm probably going to just give Cedega a try for now.. I installed Ubuntu (on it now actually) and I'm going to give Cedega a try, it's just 15$.. I'll post the results here when I'm done testing and stuff.

I'm not trying to get the best results that I can get out of it.. I just want it to run. I don't even care if it looks crappy.
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Try Wine first. It has generally surpassed Cedega in compatibility, and both are based on the same source code. Though Cedega may be easier to use. So it is your choice.
 
I've had really good success with Cedega recently, though I'm not a huge gamer. Most of my games are a little older, so that might have something to do with my success. Wine will probably work well for a lot of games, but I didn't mess with it much. When it comes to gaming, I don't want to tinker with it, I just want to play, and Cedega helps a lot there. For what it's worth, I've had better luck with ubuntu/cedega than I had with Vista. Just make sure you have an nvidia card. ATI couldn't put out a decent linux driver if their lives depended on it.
 
Half Life 2 using Steam via Codeweaver's CrossOver product will be show at the NTLUG Linux Fair on Saturday 3/17 (Half Life also plays as well as HL2 Episode 1).

I tried HL2 using cedega... there were too many important texture issues (things that affect game play. For example on the huge bridge scene, you can't see where there is flooring... works fine under CrossOver.
 
CS source will run in Cedega.

If you have an AMD processor you'll want to read up on how to disable C&Q, unless you want to get banned for speed hacking.
 
I am able to run Source fine through Wine, which is free(cedega is not). I get a little less FPS and it noyl runs in dx8 but its not bad. I don;t play many games any more though.

i use pclinuxOS, i recomend it. If you install Ubuntu to begin with you will be upset if you know very little about linux. It doesn't come with flash/meda player plugins and they can be a small pain to install at first. but thats just my 2 cents, thousands of people love ubuntu.
 
Shocktrooper said:
I am able to run Source fine through Wine, which is free(cedega is not). I get a little less FPS and it noyl runs in dx8 but its not bad. I don;t play many games any more though.

i use pclinuxOS, i recomend it. If you install Ubuntu to begin with you will be upset if you know very little about linux. It doesn't come with flash/meda player plugins and they can be a small pain to install at first. but thats just my 2 cents, thousands of people love ubuntu.
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if you decide to use PClinuxOS, installing wine is easily done with the package manager, and then all you have to do is DL the steaminstall app and double click it.

go to the PClOS forums to learn how to install your drivers and eneable beryl/xgl if you want it.
 
OK, so I got it to work.. and now I get this error:

csbk4.png



Anyone have any idea? It does this after I play for like 1 minute or so..
 
Try Wine. It is generally surpassed Cedega in compatibility...

If you dont want to do that, then file a bug report at cedegas web site.
 
I've never had much luck getting wine to compile right.. I guess I can give it a try again though
 
What distro are you using? It is likely a binary package already exists for you to use.
 
Ubuntu, and yeah.. I installed it, but css is broken right now. . .


lol, this is a pain int he rear.
 
meinzorn said:
Ubuntu, and yeah.. I installed it, but css is broken right now. . .


lol, this is a pain int he rear.
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Yes it certainly is. Like I said earlier it is far from consistent. If you want to game... Just use Windows...

Wine is getting better everyday, but it just isnt ready to run Windows games yet. Linux as a whole is awesome though,and can do almost everything you might ever want it to do... Just not games.
 
I'm downloading the 64 bit version of Ubuntu right now, and this was a question that I had.

I am going to dual boot, and probably try and use Linux for everything other than games. I haven't used Linux before so this is just going to be a learning experience.

The question I do have about gaming is, is it improving in Linux? What I mean is, right now it seems Linux is able to run games about 3 years old, will it eventually almost catch up to windows?

Will there ever be a day that games are running as well on Linux as Windows?
 
Blizzard titles run extremely well for me under Wine; WoW and WC3 were running better than under Windows on more powerful rigs.

id and a few Epic titles have native Linux variants, which is awesome. Quake Wars will have a native Linux version at launch. A lot of older games will run happily under Wine as well, they just might need individual tweaking. No biggie really.

Even with all that though, simply no substitute exists for Windows gaming. (Excluding consoles). If you're serious, you need to dual-boot or have two rigs.
 
I'm running Ubuntu and wine (since Ubuntu has it's own wine repositories) and play CSS and other games just fine.
 
carlbme said:
I'm running Ubuntu and wine (since Ubuntu has it's own wine repositories) and play CSS and other games just fine.
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I tried CSS. I could get it to load, but then it would crash after like 30 seconds in game. Do you know a fix for that? or did you not have that problem at all?
 
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