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Originally Posted by Lifaen
Nice post there DeiF  . Mabye you could tell us some more how cider works how its going to benefit us and thus why people should sign  . Thanks for great support all .
Lifaen |
Ok.
But keep in mind that English is not my primary language. If anything is unclear, read the Wikipedia.
Cider/Wine are not emulators in the traditional sense. Console emulators have to emulate the hardware. Cider/Wine are roughly like software "translators". For example: it could be that in Windows, to make a window appear, you have to call "Win32API->CreateWindow", but in Linux you need to call "Create_Window" so Wine simply translates the call from one to another.
Notice that sometimes there is no direct equivalent from one command to another, so Wine/Cider need to use the available functions in their respective systems to get the same behavior of Windows. Altough this may seem bad, it isn't. Most of the time, "emulated" apps run FASTER on Wine/Cider because they are a better implementation of Windows calls than Windows itself. And they benefit from the superior memory management of these systems aswell.
Note however, that Wine/Cider are a work in progress, and there are some difficulties that make development slow (i.e. Windows API docs are not accurate, so the devs have to do some reverse engineering), so some things just don't work (but will eventually).
The good news: most of the modern game engines are supported. That includes the CryEngine, UT engine, etc.
The bad news: GameGuard cannot run because it needs direct access to the hardware (system RAM), and Linux prevents it. In fact, it uses some virus techniques to mess up your system.
Why you should sign/ask for a Mac version of Aion?- Because Aion will run faster (hopefully) on those platforms using Wine/Cider/Cedega...
- Because the only thing they need to do is stop using GameGuard.
- Because GameGuard behaves like a virus: injects code into processes, eats up system resources, can not be stoped, can not be uninstalled, and hides itself from the system
- Because that gives you more freedom to use what OS you want. Freedom is always good.
I hope that will clarify some things.
