Has anyone tried crossover?

-maddog- · Oct 27, 2006

I was wondering how high the emulation quality is and what are it's effects on performance.

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2036124,00.asp

Vondoom · Oct 27, 2006

I haven't used it yet, but from what I've seen/heard from other users it is Awesome. It sounds like there are issues with some kernals, haven't found which ones have problems though

UnseenMenace · Oct 27, 2006

I run crossover office professional, I believe David runs crossover as well.

I generally use it to run photoshop, dreamweaver, excel as I can not find opensource versions of these applications that I like as much.
Its a very good product and intergrates very well into the Ubuntu gnome desktop... can't fault it in all reality

Misfit138 · Oct 27, 2006

Wow, it can run WoW!
If it ran BF2, I'd be there in a heartbeat

Vondoom · Oct 27, 2006

Im looking into running it so I can use dreamweaver/photoshop as well

-maddog- · Oct 27, 2006

Misfit138 said:
Wow, it can run WoW!
If it ran BF2, I'd be there in a heartbeat

I doesn't do DirectX right?

Misfit138 · Oct 28, 2006

Supposedly it does support directx....

petteyg359 · Oct 28, 2006

It works great for Office and various other non-game applications, but I've yet to find a game that really runs well on it.

Misfit138 · Oct 28, 2006

Oh I had gotten my hopes up there a bit.

If I could get rid of this dual booting, I'd be in penguin heaven.

OkydOky · Oct 28, 2006

Look at wine
It can run multitude of games.

And I do not really like recommending this, but for some games, it is the only solution: Cedega

Cheator · Oct 28, 2006

Misfit138 said:
Wow, it can run WoW!
If it ran BF2, I'd be there in a heartbeat

Wine does wow really well actually. I would recomend looking at Wine before one that isn't free. If you really need it, give it a shot.

Misfit138 · Oct 28, 2006

Yes, I have wine..but it seems that it cannot run bf2 yet. I have seen a few posts that claim single player works somewhat, but mouse pointer disappears/freezes in game.

UnseenMenace · Oct 29, 2006

Misfit138 said:
Yes, I have wine..but it seems that it cannot run bf2 yet. I have seen a few posts that claim single player works somewhat, but mouse pointer disappears/freezes in game.

Try Cedega that may suit your purpose better

Misfit138 · Oct 29, 2006

Thanks for the suggestion, U.M., but I don't think I can bring myself to pay monthly for my game(s) again. I am sure many Linux users feel the same. I suppose I must simply wait for another solution at this point, and continue dual booting.

shuiends · Oct 29, 2006

Misfit138 you can pay for Cedega for 3 monthes and then just not renew your subscription. You can keep using the latest version that you got before your subscription runs out.

Misfit138 · Oct 29, 2006

Hmmmmm.....very interesting...
Good tip, thanks

uOpt · Oct 30, 2006

Note that the only way to pay for Cedega is "worldpay", which keeps your credit card number, mails around your password in clear text and does not reply to service mails complaining about same.

Better have one-time credit card numbers ready...

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