DX9 Games on Linux? Yes!

This really should have been a new thread instead of posting on an ancient one. In any case, all you need is User Agent Switcher for Firefox. Just set it to IE6/XP before you visit the site you want to fool, and set it back to default when you're done. The site won't be the wiser, as long as it doesn't require any ActiveX. Of course, JAVA and Flash both work perfectly in Firefox. And if you need it, Transgaming has an emulated ActiveX plugin for Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape.

-AT

 

Cedega 5.0 released.

New Features

Cedega 5.0

• Support for Battlefield 2, Dungeon Siege II, City of Villains, Madden NFL 2005 and Madden NFL 2006.
• An internal scheduler which allows Cedega better control over processes and threads under the Linux 2.6 kernels. This should help with issues related to these kernels such as movie stutter, long load times, and general performance problems.
• Pixel shader 1.4 support, with related graphics fixes and improvements.
• Major rewrite of the way geometry data is handled, allowing us to provide improved support for the OpenGL VBO extension. This work has given us the opportunity to provide improved handling when using the OpenGL VAR extension as well.
• Preliminary support for FBO (Framebuffer Objects), a new OpenGL extension that allows us to provide improved correctness and speed in offscreen rendering. This is required for Battlefield 2 and is enabled by default for this title.
• Enhanced Direct3D9 functionality, including query support, improved blendfactor support and a software mouse cursor.
• A fix for a stencil buffer issue brought to light by recent changes to the NVIDIA drivers.
• Various copy protection improvements.
• Improved installer support with the integration of advpack and setupapi dlls from WineHQ, better handling of eReg, and added support for DOS batch files.
• Support for the subfs CD-ROM automounter for SuSE 9.3 and 10 via D-Bus.