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  1. 01-17-2005 #1
    forceflow501
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    how good is WINE?

    is it good enough to play games? (halo etc?)
    or more along the lines of solitare?
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  2. 01-18-2005 #2
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    you wil need cedaga for gaming. wine is great but the people over at transgaming have taken wine and added more game support to make cedaga.
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    cedega is good but have anyone information on how to configure it in order to playgames?i don't have a manual..
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  4. 01-18-2005 #4
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    hmmmm, i might just wipe my xp pro machine...so wine/cedega is not bottle necked and can use the system just like it was "not emulating"
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    As far as I know, Winex/Cedega will not run Halo. There are certain Windows games that Cedega runs extremely well such as Half-Life and its mods and Starcraft. I also understand Duke Nukem runs very well. There are other games it will not run at all and there's everything in between.

    Have a look here for how games are rated.
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    halo is listed there......but doesn't have any rating or anything...
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    My experience with Cedega says that there's really no way to tell until you try it on your system. Some games rated 5 out of 5 don't work at all on my system, while games rated 0-3 work beautifully. I've had systems where *no* games would run using Cedega and ones that would run any game I threw at it. It's unpredictable.
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    would booting of knoppix give me a accurate idea? or would i have to install linux? (then i shall need another harddrive)
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    Quote Originally Posted by forceflow501
    would booting of knoppix give me a accurate idea? or would i have to install linux? (then i shall need another harddrive)
    AFAIK you cannot install packages on Knoppix, therefore you cannot install Cedega, therefore YES, you would need to install a distro before you could try it.

    Also, you wouldn't be able to load Halo anyway unless you have 2 CDROM drives, since Knoppix locks the one from which it boots.
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  10. 01-18-2005 #10
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    it would have been a stupid question if didn't have two cd drives....
    and wouldn't you be able to install it non permentently? (like on RAM)
    well w/e, i guess i will have to buy another hd to test it.
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