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However, if you don't have a legitimate license of Windows or don't want to use Windows you can still play games. On a console. Go buy a PS2, XBOX or Gamecube. Seriously.
Ok so you want to play games on your PC and not use Windows. Well then, you're in for some grief. It can be done. But it isn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination. Don't believe the hype as they say.
-The only really viable way to play Windows games on [Linux] is with [Transgaming's|http://www.transgaming.com/] [Cedega] product (what was once known as WineX). You can also use the stock ["
WINE"
|http://www.winehq.org
] [
Windows]
non-emulator. But you will probably have less joy than with [Cedega]. Be aware that [Cedega] is a commercial app. It was forked off of WINE when WINE was [BSD] licensed. WINE is now [LGPL] so people can no longer do this.
+The only really viable way to play Windows games on [Linux] is with [Transgaming's|http://www.transgaming.com/] [Cedega] product (what was once known as WineX). You can also use the stock [WINE|Wine
] Windows non-emulator. But you will probably have less joy than with [Cedega]. Be aware that [Cedega] is a commercial app. It was forked off of WINE when WINE was [BSD] licensed. WINE is now [LGPL] so people can no longer do this.
Personally it has been a while since I used [Cedega]. I no longer subscribe to the $60USD/year 'service' so I can't test new versions. The games that I did get to run when I had a subscription were:
* Diablo 2 (with sound glitches)
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* Warcraft 3 (ran well in the undocumented OpenGL mode but with a reduced frame rate)
As you can see I didn't exactly test it with a very broad range of games. Quite a few of the games I wanted to play just plain didn't install, let alone run.
-Now the marketing on the Transgaming website would have you believe that many games will run flawlessly. And they are not entirely wrong. Each version of [WineX
]/[Cedega] did get better and better and "support" more titles. But the games I ran were never "perfect" or flawless. There was always some 'tweaking' to be done. Some were very good, like Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3, but they still had non-fatal but annoying glitches or reduced performance. Some [Cedega] users report complete "Windows like" success when running games like Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike. The product has received many good reviews. But be aware that your mileage may vary.
+Now the marketing on the Transgaming website would have you believe that many games will run flawlessly. And they are not entirely wrong. Each version of Wine
]/[Cedega] did get better and better and "support" more titles. But the games I ran were never "perfect" or flawless. There was always some 'tweaking' to be done. Some were very good, like Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3, but they still had non-fatal but annoying glitches or reduced performance. Some [Cedega] users report complete "Windows like" success when running games like Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike. The product has received many good reviews. But be aware that your mileage may vary.
Other caveates are that [Cedega] only really supports nVidia graphics cards for 3D games. Forget about using DRI/Mesa 3D drivers. ATI binary driver support is also patchy.
So like I said, if your time is money, then you're better off maintaining a "Wintendo" partition or, if you want to save yourself the frustration expense of maintaing an NVIDIA GPU habit, get a console. When you tire of your games you can always modchip the console, install [Linux] on it and use it as a media centre.
