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Cedega 6.0 - Part 3
Engine Management For : Mepis Linux 6.x by : je.saist This guide presumes that you have subscribed to
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Subscriber, this guide, and future Windows Games on Cedega guides will do you no good. Part 1 - Obtain | Part 2 - Install | Part 3 - Old Engine
So, why would you want to install an older engine anyways? Isn't a newer release going to contian everything that went into the previous version, only improved? No. It's called regression testing. Transgaming simply does not have the resources to test everything that users will do with Cedega. Since Cedega also uses code from the W.I.N.E. project, changes in the W.I.N.E. code may cause a break in a system that was previously working. Lets use the example of City of Heroes. I know for a fact that City of Heroes works with the Nvidia-glx 1.0-9639 driver on Cedega engine 5.2.10. Now, if I update Cedega to 6.0 or 6.0.1 engines and start to encounter problems on the newer 1.0-9755 driver, I can drop Cedega back to the old engine, and verify that the problem is indeed with Nvidia's bottom of the barrel drivers. Now, if I had the time, I'd try to track down exactly what the problem is and try to find a fix. While this may not matter to an end-user, it does offer some flexibility to maintain a stable system. This guide then walks through using the Cedega interface to install an older engine, then removing that engine, then installing an older engine from the archive engine downloaded in Part 1. 51: Here we go starting from the Cedega user interface.  52: Left Click on Transgaming on the top menu bar.  53: Left Click on Install Older Engine.  54: Conviently, Cedega makes all of the older engines available to download.  55: Lets Left Click on Cedega Engine Version 5.2.10 Then Left Click on Continue.  56: Another license form. Left Click on Accept.  57: The older engine will now download.  58: Cedega will now ask if the downloaded engine is to be made the default.  59: Left Click on No.  60: Then Left Click on OK.  61: Alright, now to remove the newly downloaded engine. Mouse back to the TransGaming menu bar and Left Click on Remove Instealled Engine(s).  62: The box will list the currently installed engines.  63: Left Click on 5.2.10 to select Then Left Click on OK to continue.  64: Left Click on Yes.  65: Left Click on Ok. The older engine is now gone.  66: Now lets walk through installing an archived engine on your hard-drive. Mouse back to the TransGaming menu bar and Left Click on Install Local Update.  67: Cedega will now open up a typcial file finding box. Left Click on Browse.  68: The file browser should default to the /home/(username) directory. So, for me, I'm just going to Left Click on Desktop. If you have FireFox set to download elsewhere, please navigate to the download location now.  69: Now we should see the 5.2.10 engine downloaded in Part 1. Left Click on the older engine to select.  70: Left Click on OK.  71: Left Click on OK again.  72: License form. Left Click on Accept.  73: Left Click on No. We don't want this as our default engine.  74: Left Click on OK to finish.  And there we go. Cedega is installed and engine managment is explained. Missed something when getting Cedega in Part 1? Missed something when installing Cedega in Part 2? Take me back to the Guides. |