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Crossover Games 9 - Viable for heavy games?

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Malkishua

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Hey.

I own a MBP 15', i7, 4g ram, 2010 model, and running Lion.
Recently I've been snooping around for new games since Diablo 3 is going to be delayed (BOO!!!)

The only games I've been putting my eye on are Battlefield 3 and Heroes of Might and Magic 6, which are both PC only.

So after looking around I was wondering if Crossover Games 9 is a good emulator that can handle such heavy games or I shouldn't even bother?

I'm a sound engineer and I don't want to run Boot Camp since I'm afraid what it will do to my system regarding sound editing via Pro Tools 9. the software is very delicate and requires a very clean hard drive.

Thanks! :)
 
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I'm a little confused what you mean with clean hard drive a boot camp partition will separate your drive no files will be added to osx. Crossover will not handle battlefield 3 you will be lucky to get it to run in windows.
 
Yeah I agree with Airforcekid. You would be lucky to get any games to install using Crossover 9, let alone Battlefield 3. With the Mac you have it would be better to look into a cheap gaming pc. Your Macbook Pro will fry your lap trying to run Battlefield 3 (even in Bootcamp) on low settings.
 
Don't underestimate crossover guys. It's not like running something inside a virtual machine, it's not an emulation. It's native execution so it is (most of the times) super fast. The only concern is about compatibility (if it could be run at first place).

Lots of people run Age of Conan with crossover, which has a very heavy graphics engine, along with other demanding games as well. I'd say, you should check on the crossover forums first, since the only problem with crossover is the compatibility with specific games, rather than the speed.
 
Wine doesn't support directx10 (only 9 and lower) and won't for a long time, and when it does initially support it, don't expect those dx10+ only games to work good.

This might also help you out a bit http://appdb.winehq.org/

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Don't underestimate crossover guys. It's not like running something inside a virtual machine, it's not an emulation. It's native execution so it is (most of the times) super fast. The only concern is about compatibility (if it could be run at first place).

Lots of people run Age of Conan with crossover, which has a very heavy graphics engine, along with other demanding games as well. I'd say, you should check on the crossover forums first, since the only problem with crossover is the compatibility with specific games, rather than the speed.
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I'm glad someone knows what WINE stands for :)
Wine Is Not an Emulator.

You're mostly right, although speed is definitely an issue with the 'heavier' newer games (any app should be perfectly fine in speed). You usually have to tweak wrappers/bottles to get the best performance out of it.

Also, Wineskin is much better than Crossover in my opinion, and it's free and open source.
 
Absolutely, definitely agree with wineskin. Plus you get your game wrapped in a single application file. Yes, WINE is a very nice project, used it a lot during my Linux years, really glad Mac has adopted it so nicely.

For what is worth, I was able to play even Dragon Age II during this August without any problems, full effects and in iMac's 27" native resolution. It's an amazing project.

Though, comparing wineskin with crossover I'd say that wineskin would require a bit more of work from the user while crossover is more friendly (but non-free).
 
Thanks for the props to Wineskin.... :) I prefer it very much also, but I'm completely biased.

Crossover 9 is a bit old.. look at 10 :)

You are more likely to be able to get a game to work or work better in Wineskin than in Crossover, but it can become MUCH more complicated to do so. Crossover tries to go for being super easy... a few games end up being easy, but most of the time any Wine solution can get complicated for games if you are doing it yourself, but its a game by game basis.

Most of the time if you want to play the newest games out, or play games at the max settings you can, you just want to game in Windows. Wine base solutions are for people who do not want to run Windows, do not mind waiting to play new games, and do not mind some performance hits.
 
The only game I'm interested in atm is Heroes of Might and Magic 6.
How heavy is it supposed to be?..
 
Malkishua said:
The only game I'm interested in atm is Heroes of Might and Magic 6.
How heavy is it supposed to be?..
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It's not out, no one knows how it will perform with Wine. 5 took a few months before it was completely playable. The new engine is suppose to have higher requirements but the HOMM games generally aren't that advanced when compared to current gen. If you want to play it on day one just install Windows via Bootcamp.

Also replace "How heavy is it supposed to be" with "How high are the system requirements going to be" etc. graphical requirements aren't measured by weight :D
 
antonis said:
Don't underestimate crossover guys. It's not like running something inside a virtual machine, it's not an emulation. It's native execution so it is (most of the times) super fast. The only concern is about compatibility (if it could be run at first place).

Lots of people run Age of Conan with crossover, which has a very heavy graphics engine, along with other demanding games as well. I'd say, you should check on the crossover forums first, since the only problem with crossover is the compatibility with specific games, rather than the speed.
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2d this. I run COD MW2 and Black Ops using Crossover, I may have to crank the eye candy down a notch or two, but both run fine for me.
 
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