Big breakthrough in Linux gaming?

[Oil]

Overview and benchmarks

Looks to be very promising to users who do not want to dual boot to game. Currently the game selection supported is limited but that will increase in the future.

I'm trying to find benchmarks of actual games but have come up short.

 

[Schadenfroh]

As an alternative to the propriety crossover games (which costs money). Checkout the freeware wine project's application database and see if you can get your game running on Linux.

 

[Oil]

Yes Crossover Games does cost money but the two things I see that make it worth the money is the ease of use of installing games (much better than Wine) and slightly higher FPS

 

[Bateluer]

I'd want to see frequent updates and top notch support if I'm going to be paying for a service to run my games under Linux, something that is superior to Wine.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Does Crossover Games make PunkBuster work?

 

[hooflung]

Crossover is superior to Cedega in regards to customer service and giving back to Wine. Cedega's service is slightly 'meh' because they are busting hump pushing Cider and the stand alone Cedega wrappers for EVE and Spore and getting Shader Model 3 working. Wine and CX Games already have Shader Model 3 working but the wine/cx isn't specifically tuned for games but CX Games should get better in this regard now that they are investing in it.

I personally am a 3+ year subscriber to Transgaming and I just quit. Only game I need compatibility for Linux is EVE and the official Cedega Client should have Shader Model 3 working, cut and paste working outside the game, stability improvements and portrait generation working smoothly shortly. This will also lead to Cedega improvements for other games. However, I like Cedega having CX as a competitor and honestly if CX push forward and dominate Cedega's niche market I won't shed a tear as long as EVE plays well.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Originally posted by: OSx86
Yes Crossover Games does cost money but the two things I see that make it worth the money is the ease of use of installing games (much better than Wine) and slightly higher FPS

You're forgetting that Codeweavers is pretty much Wine's commercial division. Many of the coders for Wine work for Codeweavers. CX is pretty much giving them a donation.

As for the app itself, I installed TF2 on it. It runs better than it did in Wine, but I cannot put most of my video settings past medium. I think I'll wait for some of the games to get a gold ranking before I plunk down my money for a subscription.

 

[Oil]

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX

Originally posted by: OSx86
Yes Crossover Games does cost money but the two things I see that make it worth the money is the ease of use of installing games (much better than Wine) and slightly higher FPS

You're forgetting that Codeweavers is pretty much Wine's commercial division. Many of the coders for Wine work for Codeweavers. CX is pretty much giving them a donation.

As for the app itself, I installed TF2 on it. It runs better than it did in Wine, but I cannot put most of my video settings past medium. I think I'll wait for some of the games to get a gold ranking before I plunk down my money for a subscription.

No I didn't forget that Codeweavers is pretty much Wine's commercial division. If they support more games and with better results than Windows I personally believe its worth the money. Others may not and thats perfectly fine.

I don't think CX Games is ready for prime time just yet. I'll check back in 6 months to see what kind of updates CX has done

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Originally posted by: OSx86
No I didn't forget that Codeweavers is pretty much Wine's commercial division.

Well, you didn't list that as one of the reasons that CXG is worth the money.

 

[Oil]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Does Crossover Games make PunkBuster work?

I don't believe they support any games that need PunkBuster yet

 

[Fox5]

Meh, why not just use Wine? It's pretty simple, and anything that needs a few extra steps that this is likely to support can probably be found online anyway.
Plus, they can't make up for bad drivers. Integrated intel graphics can play dx9 games on windows, I don't think it supports comparable features on its linux drivers.