wine users - Mar 2008 - CodeWeavers released CrossOver Games today!

An Introduction CrossOver Games

CrossOver Games is a commercial variant of Wine released by CodeWeavers with
support for many of today's most popular games. CrossOver Games is tested
for performance and stability with many games such as Guild Wars, Eve Online,
and Steam games like Half-Life 2 and Portal.

Link: Full Article
(http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/07/introduction-to-crossover-games.html)

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:47 AM, twickline <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> An Introduction CrossOver Games
>
>  CrossOver Games is a commercial variant of Wine released by CodeWeavers
with support for many of today's most popular games. CrossOver Games is
tested for performance and stability with many games such as Guild Wars, Eve
Online, and Steam games like Half-Life 2 and Portal.
>
>  Link: Full Article
(http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/07/introduction-to-crossover-games.html)
>
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.

thanks,
Mark

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:47 AM, twickline <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > An Introduction CrossOver Games
> > 
> > CrossOver Games is a commercial variant of Wine released by
CodeWeavers with support for many of today's most popular games. CrossOver
Games is tested for performance and stability with many games such as Guild
Wars, Eve Online, and Steam games like Half-Life 2 and Portal.
> > 
> > Link: Full Article
(http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/07/introduction-to-crossover-games.html)
> > 
> > 
> 
> 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.
> 
> thanks,
> Mark
I bet there are several patches that address specific game problems that
otherwise not suitable for Wine. Pretty much the same thing that makes Crossover
Office different from Wine.
I for one can think of "font of death" problem. the patch for it
existed for a long time. But it's a hack not a proper patch - so it
won't ever be part of Wine.

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.

Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
> I'm not entirely clear on the difference between Wine and Crossover
Games in
> this case.
> 
> However, my understanding is Transgaming has been rather negligent in
holding
> up their promise to kick patches back to the Wine project, as I understand 
> it.  It's been a while since I've dealt with Transgaming at all;
between that
> and their customer billing support being so poor, my time as a Cedega 
> customer/user was very short lived to say the least.  I'm a little
surprised
> to discover they're still around three years later; from dealing with 
> Transgaming, I got the impression they were a fly-by-night operation.

 :D

-Tom

I dont know enough about whats actually causing the problem to be of any 
value. I am tracking the bug though.

Dean

Hartmut Figge wrote:
> Dean Hamstead:
> 
>> But would someone please fix the mouse wrapping bug? :)
> 
> The one i see in Gothic 3? *g* Seems we have to wait for a new release
> of X or to use one of the workarounds.
> 
> But since there are other bugs in Gothic3 like memory leak + crash and
> rendering errors i will have to wait anyway.
> 
> Hartmut
> 
> 
> 
-- 
http://fragfest.com.au

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Jeremy & vitamin,
> Thanks for the responses.
> 
> After checking out the requirements page I will likely try the demo
> and see how it goes. Being that I'm a Gentoo user and Codeweavers
> isn't going to support that distro I'd like to ensure that things
go
> well before spending the $40 but none the less I'm excited.
> 
> I suppose another question might be how much better Crossover Games
> works compared to standard leading edge Wine but maybe that's putting
> too fine a point on it.

As for performance you can check this out : 
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=crossover_games&num=1

-Tom

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:26:08 +0100
Hartmut Figge <h.figge at gmx.de> wrote:
> But since there are other bugs in Gothic3 like memory leak + crash and
> rendering errors i will have to wait anyway.
even on windows gothic3 is buggy as hell ;)


-- 
Marcel W. Wysocki <maci at satgnu.net>
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