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Crossover Games?

gamerz

gamerz

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Hello everyone,

I've always wanted to play Mac games on my computer without having to reboot, or switch in between desktops... I found crossover games, and it looks pretty legit, but im not exactly sure on how it works, and I don't really want to buy it until I know for sure that it will work.

How does it work? If I were to get it, how would I run say, age of empires II on it?

Cheers.
 
Go download the free trial and try it out for yourself.
It basically installs a windows emulator onto your mac partition. Whenever you try to open a windows program(.exe) it opens it with crossover, and emulates a windows environment. The only time I have tried it is with Steam, but you should be able to put in your aoe 2 cd's into your mac and open them with crossover to install them.
Be sure to check the compatibility list to see which games work.
It doesn't look like aoe 2 is supported, though age of mythology supposedly works, so maybe it would work.
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I use crossover games on my iMac to run the steam games Half Life 2 and Team Fortress 2. I have found them to run almost flawlessly and without lag. I am a big fan of CrossOver Games for this reason, and I recommend it. The suggestion to try a free trial is a good one. I used a YouTube video tutorial to install steam and HL2 via crossover. It was very helpful. Good luck!
 
hankolerd said:
Go download the free trial and try it out for yourself.
It basically installs a windows emulator onto your mac partition. Whenever you try to open a windows program(.exe) it opens it with crossover, and emulates a windows environment. The only time I have tried it is with Steam, but you should be able to put in your aoe 2 cd's into your mac and open them with crossover to install them.
Be sure to check the compatibility list to see which games work.
It doesn't look like aoe 2 is supported, though age of mythology supposedly works, so maybe it would work.
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Just to be picky - Wine (upon which Crossover is based) isn't an emulator. That's what it stands for. :)

In truth, though, it's very hit or miss. Definitely test out the demo with the games you're interested in.
 
Thanks,'

I donwloaded the demo and everything, and installed age of empires II. However, I'm having troubles booting the game... Anybody know how to do this?

Also, I try to install age of empires II The Conquerers (its the expansion), and it says that I need to have age of empires II, Age of Kings installed, which I already did.

Any ideas?
 
Make sure that you are installing the expansion into the same bottle as you have installed AoE II. Other than that I'm not sure sorry...

Of course you could try, if nothing else works, to install in Windows (either by BootCamp or Parallels/VMWare) and drag across your install folder to the appropriate folder in Crossover.

Best of luck.
 
I've gotten almost every game I've tried to run in Crossover without any major issues - this includes the Orange Box, Civilization 4, Silent Hill 2, and Planescape: Torment; save for Bioshock, I probably would've considered not getting Windows at all if I'd known how well Crossover worked for the games I was interested in.

By the way, I'm probably stating the obvious and you probably own the windows version of AoE2, but the Mac version runs without any issue on the current version of OS X.
 
Thanks Zortrium... Have you tried AoE2 in crossover?

Also, the reason why I want the windows version of AoE2 is so that I can play with people the have PC's, which nearly everyone else here at school has.

Since crossover provides a windows enviroment, would it even be possible to play AoE2 with PC's?



On a side note, if crossover doesn't work, I'll most likely install windows vista or xp. If I were to instal windows xp, could I play AoE2 with people that used windows vista?

Cheers.
 
When I play TF2, it's with people playing on Windows machines. The configuration tool tells me that I am running XP when I am playing on OS X with CrossOver Games. So, yeah. It will work with people on Windows machines.
 
I have Crossover Games, and it runs AoE2, but so slowly as to be almost unplayable. A big bummer, for sure.
 
I Suggest going to the Compatibility section of Crossover on codeweavers.com
its the best way to find out if they can play or not i should have used that compatibility page before buying CoH and not working and wasting $30 :- (
 
You can play CoH using a Mac now. You just can't do it with Crossover Games.
 
hhmm while Crossover is a very good idea, it isnt at the point yet where it can run probably even 5% of all software out there. it is very picky, unfortunately.
 
CrossOver won't run all games perfectly or won't even run some games. I suggest downloading a program called Cider. Google it.

It's used to run PC based games on Macs. I highly suggest it.
 
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