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Crossover Games Released!

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MrSquibbles

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Now gamers can play the games they want, on whatever platform they want! With CrossOver Games, you can run many popular Windows games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux PC. Whatever your tastes — first-person shooters, fantasy, strategy, MMORPGs — CrossOver Games provides the capability to run many popular games titles. CrossOver comes with an easy to use, single click interface, which makes installing your games simple and fast. Once installed, your game integrates seamlessly into your Desktop. Just click and run! Best of all, you do it all easily and affordably, without needing a Microsoft operating system license.

CrossOver Games is built on the latest versions of Wine, based on contributions from both CodeWeavers and the open-source Wine community, and then lovingly hand-crafted by Stefan Dösinger, our very own Wine/Games connoisseur. Unlike other CrossOver products, which are aimed primarily at office productivity applications (and hence maximum stability), CrossOver Games aims to bring you the latest, greatest, bleeding edge improvements in Wine technology. This means that the newest games run faster and better under CrossOver than under other versions of CrossOver, or other version of free Wine, for that matter. You want to run your Mom's knitting software? Maybe you should look elsewhere. On the other hand, if you need better framerates on Linux or Mac so you can frag your buddies: check out CrossOver Games!
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http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxgames/
 
Sweet! Wonder if this is their response to all the unofficial pirated games released on bittorrent... now to see how The Orange Box runs...

Edit: Oops, I was thinking of Cyder... Played around with Crossover Games, and Half Life 2 runs amazingly well, but Ep 2 won't launch. Guess I'll still have to reinstall XP :(
 
Awesome. Downloading this and giving it a go with a few of my games. If this is all it's cracked up to be, I'll definitely give them my money.
 
eXan said:
O_O Awesome! Downloading it now to see if KOTOR 2 works :D:D
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So, I installed it and here;s my little review of KOTOR 2 in CrossOver Games 7.0:

I inserted the game DVD and chosen "Easy install", the game began installing immidietly. The installer was in Russian and the text showed as strange characters, but I figured my way through it :). I click Install and the installation process starts.

When it was finished I was given an option by the Autorun to run the game, but CrossOver was still thinking the game was installing so I pressed "Force installation completion" button.

I launched the game and the first issue appeared - the cursor was invisible unless I pressed the mouse button, but at least it worked ;). Also during the playback of pre-rendered movies the letterbox was white instead of black. Other than that the game is fine :D

EDIT: in previous versions of CrossOver the game was unplayable due to the mouse cursor not moving at all.
 
this looks awesome, i m going to have to buy a copy of orange box to see how well this works. anyone got video posted up or review on this?

will they be updating the list of games or are those it?
 
Well, HL2 works beautifully, TF2 works well, but with my tablet, the mouse didn't work correctly. Ep2 won't launch...
 
i dont' like to hear that...why does it not work? it says it will work, why?????:confused::(
 
first time i tried TF2 it froze up while i was resetting the screen resolution, second time i loaded it up, it loaded up with the changed screen resolution, but froze up as soon as i got in the game when i was choosing my class. Anyone else have troubles like these that they found fixes too? I am downloading TrackMania Nations right now to see if it will run. Anyone else not getting shift+tab to work inside of steam games?? Doesn't work for me.

Exciting that Crossover is making a Gaming specific version of their software though.:apple:
 
I already get all the Source-games in Steam to work on CrossOver 6.2.1

So for those who had that version earlier...

... how's the performance boost? If there is any?
 
eXan said:
You mean Cmd-tab?
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No, in Steam games you can hit the keys shift+tab, to bring up the steam community while you are playing, so you can talk to friends, or join a game a friend is in very easily, but when using crossover nothing happens when i hit the key combo.
Cmd+tab works fine as long as you run the game in windowed mode, which I never used to do, but I am finding it is nice to be able to pause a game and do something else without having to quit and lose progress.:apple:
 
Oraichu said:
I already get all the Source-games in Steam to work on CrossOver 6.2.1

So for those who had that version earlier...

... how's the performance boost? If there is any?
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Team Fortress 2 runs perfectly windowed on lower settings. :D The only problem is the track pad doesn't work well with fps games. :rolleyes:

I'm not sure about other steam games though.
 
I'm giving it a try right now. I successfully got F.E.A.R. and Phantasy Star Universe to install, but no luck getting either to run.

I couldn't get F.E.A.R. to recognize that the DVD was in the drive, so I tried a nocd patch. It now goes through the opening logo cinematics, but crashes when it gets to the point that it would load the title screen.

Phantasy Star Universe shows the opening menu to choose online or offline mode, but crashes when either is chosen and the nProtect GameGuard Engine should start downloading patches.

I'll be trying out TESIV: Oblivion and EverQuest later, and some older games such as Fallout and American McGee's Alice.

I'm glad that Guild Wars is now officially supported. I tried it with Crossover Mac and it worked with few issues. I'll give it a try later as well.
 
Dark Messiah: Might and Magic works. Garry's mod works but is very buggy. World in Conflict does not work (go figure). Guild Wars works as advertised, but that doesn't change the fact that it isn't very fun. :)
 
No good for me in TF2

Steam loads OK I select the game, it starts I select a server, it load till 90% or so and that is all, It just sits there and hangs the machine up. Suppose it is a beta though.
 
It's not exactly expensive, so I just went ahead and bought it yesterday. HL2 EP1 plays very well, I'm very happy. So far I think only the ones mentioned in the list work, but I'm optimistic that this will expand quite quickly.

This is what I was waiting for - I can't be arsked to reboot into Bootcamp to run a game when I have umpht-million windows open in Spaces.
 
FullMetalMonkey said:
Team Fortress 2 runs perfectly windowed on lower settings. :D The only problem is the track pad doesn't work well with fps games. :rolleyes:

I'm not sure about other steam games though.
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I was kinda wondering how the "boost" was since Team Fortress 2 already works on Crossover 6.2.1 ;)

All HL2 games, Prey, Hitman 2 etc works on the earlier Crossover, so I'm wondering if it's worth getting "Crossover Games" for the new possible boost.

Even HL2 mods like "Pirates, Vikings & Knights", DRIPRIP and Goldeneye: Source works very nice on Crossover 6.2.1.
 
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