Download Cedega 4.3

TransGaming Technologies released version 4.3 of Cedega a few days ago. This is Microsoft’s proprietary implementation of Win32 Application Programming Interfaces (API) for the Linux platform, which makes it possible to Windows games on various Linux distributions. This new version supports new games such as Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords and Sid Meier’s Pirates! Live the Life. In addition, the necessary improvements have of course been added. The full release notes are below:

New Features

• TransGamers can now enjoy playing Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, and Sid Meier’s Pirates! Live the Life.
• A preloader to resolve the usability issues caused by the presence of prelinking, exec-shield and the new VA layout in newer kernels and distros. These features no longer have to be disabled before running Cedega.
• Vertex and fragment program caches that reduce the number of times a shader has to be loaded. These provide significant speed boosts to shader intensive games such as Half-life 2 and World of Warcraft.
• Improved support for WGL Pbuffers and better tracking of pixel formats. These changes make World of Warcraft playable in OpenGL mode.
• Changes were made to the way fragment offsets are implemented. This provides for more correct pixel shader effects in games such as Half-life 2.
• A number of regressions affecting Battlefield 1942, Painkiller, EVE Online, Star Wars Galaxies, and Anarchy Online were resolved.
• A variety of correctness issues and potential crashes were also resolved. These included a fix for the sound looping in Civilization III, properly hiding the mouse cursor in World of Warcraft, resolving the wineserver crash affecting Half-life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source, fixing a potential crash in the ALSA sound driver, and a number of improvements to the StretchRect implementation.
• The Win32 Security Services DLL, secur32.dll, contributed by Juan Lang. This DLL is required for recent versions of Star Wars Galaxies to run.