Download Cedega 5.2

TransGaming Technologies released version 5.2 of Cedega yesterday. Cedega is a proprietary implementation of Microsoft’s Win32 Application Programming Interfaces (API) for the Linux platform, which makes it possible to play Windows games under Linux. The software works on a subscription basis and costs five euros per month. For a complete list of supported games, visit this page justly. New in this release include automatic game detection during installation and support for the popular game Oblivion. The complete release notes are here to find. Below are the main changes:

New features in Cedega 5.2

• A Games Disc Database (GDDB) to automatically detect and install supported games with the best known settings.
• A new method of handling configuration options which lets you set options globally, yet gives you the power to customize them on a per-shortcut basis.
• New and improved shortcut properties dialog, which allows you to specify command line options per shortcut, extract icons from executables, and launch native Linux applications.
• Improvements to installer shortcut creation. Shortcuts to local html files are now supported.
• Updated system detection tools and improved system tests.
• Support for automounting systems which do not list optical devices in the /etc/fstab, via improved D-Bus support and a number of other changes.
• TransGamers can now play Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion with the use of the OLDblivion program.
• A number of DirectSound and Quartz fixes and improvements.
• Fixes for Guild Wars, The Longest Journey, and the Star Wars Galaxies patcher.
• A variety of graphics and font improvements, including a re-architected shader implementation.
• Fix regression in the virtual memory manager.
• A significant number of infrastructure updates.

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