Battlefield 2142 through Crossover Games/Wine?

Neanderthal · 03-11-2009, 01:05 AM

Does anyone here know if BF2142 runs well through Crossover Games/Wine? I use a Mac, but I've heard that the official Mac port is extremely glitchy. I was hoping to give the PC version a try.

Minmaster · 03-11-2009, 01:51 AM

for ALL gaming, you're better off booting windows natively via bootcamp. i would not mess with crossover and all the emulation apps when you can boot into windows and play games off it like a normal PC.

Neanderthal · 03-11-2009, 02:59 AM

Yeah, I suppose you're right, though I did manage to run several Valve games through Crossover. I'll probably look into getting ahold of XP or something in the future so I can dual boot.

Forces(UK) · 03-11-2009, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Neanderthal

I'll probably look into getting ahold of XP or something in the future so I can dual boot.

Good move.

SilverRook79 · 08-11-2009, 05:07 PM

Yeh things like WINEX - Changed to Cedega - fails to run 2142 or many games correctly - Basically down to lack of decent DirectX coding - i have tried many times to get it working with Xubuntu using wine, winex/cedega and a bunch of others.
If you can get the game working Punkbuster fails and vice versa.

Put simply if its a windows pc game play it on windows.

I just wish more software studios would code for linux too, its very frustrating having to keep a xp drive specifically for booting 2142 lol although i love 2142 that much i just DO it hahaha

xALIENAx · 09-11-2009, 06:22 AM

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Originally Posted by SilverRook79

Yeh things like WINEX - Changed to Cedega - fails to run 2142 or many games correctly - Basically down to lack of decent DirectX coding - i have tried many times to get it working with Xubuntu using wine, winex/cedega and a bunch of others.
If you can get the game working Punkbuster fails and vice versa.

Put simply if its a windows pc game play it on windows.

I just wish more software studios would code for linux too, its very frustrating having to keep a xp drive specifically for booting 2142 lol although i love 2142 that much i just DO it hahaha

im in the same boat... i have the mac with dual quadcore.. exclusively for gaming and do dual boot thing...
i <3 OSX snow leopard.. wish i could run in that.. windows has always been garbage imho horridly inefficient OS

SilverRook79 · 10-11-2009, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by xALIENAx

im in the same boat... i have the mac with dual quadcore.. exclusively for gaming and do dual boot thing...
i <3 OSX snow leopard.. wish i could run in that.. windows has always been garbage imho horridly inefficient OS

lol MACs have 8 cores ?

OSX has always been "quirky" and "fun" and if your not graphical designer or a music producer MACs have been pretty pointless - unless your one of these people that bought a MACbook cuz they looked cool lol very much the point in case for most of apples hardware

windows has gotten a lot better
vista is MS's achilles heel, XP has always been the most stable after NT4, especially if you use nLite and custom build your own installs and cut out all the pointless bundled rubbish like laptop drivers brother printer drivers etc my Custom XP installs to 250mb and only uses 150mb memory running idle. Windows 7 again bloated with junk but it is a superior OS *shudder* didnt think i'd ever say that but...... it IS stable and DOES run games and has virtualisation support lots of other cool hardware stuff AND IT PLAYS GAMES ! lol

Horses for courses i guess

xALIENAx · 11-11-2009, 03:52 AM

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Originally Posted by SilverRook79

lol MACs have 8 cores ?

OSX has always been "quirky" and "fun" and if your not graphical designer or a music producer MACs have been pretty pointless - unless your one of these people that bought a MACbook cuz they looked cool lol

windows has gotten a lot better
vista is MS's achilles heel, XP has always been the most stable after NT4, especially if you use nLite and custom build your own installs and cut out all the pointless bundled rubbish like laptop drivers brother printer drivers etc my Custom XP installs to 250mb and only uses 150mb memory running idle. Windows 7 again bloated with junk but it is a superior OS *shudder* didnt think i'd ever say that but...... it IS stable and DOES run games and has virtualisation support lots of other cool hardware stuff AND IT PLAYS GAMES !

yes "MACPRO" has 8core... unbeatable performance imho. OSX does require a fair bit of tweaking for certain things. but im happy with it

03-11-2009, 01:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
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SilverRook79 Rookie Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 113	Yeh things like WINEX - Changed to Cedega - fails to run 2142 or many games correctly - Basically down to lack of decent DirectX coding - i have tried many times to get it working with Xubuntu using wine, winex/cedega and a bunch of others. If you can get the game working Punkbuster fails and vice versa. Put simply if its a windows pc game play it on windows. I just wish more software studios would code for linux too, its very frustrating having to keep a xp drive specifically for booting 2142 lol although i love 2142 that much i just DO it hahaha __________________ 1500+ posts does not make you an expert, just means you talk a lot of lalalala. Never Underestimate the predictability of stupidity.