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What exactly is crossover for steam?

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AustinD

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Before I had the mac spotlight shine down on me through my dirty windows, I played a few games on my pc. Luckily, its dead now, and im never going back to windows, and have absolutely no thoughts of putting vista/xp on my baby. But schoolwork has been slow lately, and ive seen ever faildogs.com picture, so im wanting to start my CS:S gaming back up, and have a few questions.


1. With 'crossover,' does that allow me to run steam (css) through my mac without installing vista?

2. If so, how cleanly will it run? I have a 20" 2.0 1gb baseline alum. imac.

3. If the aforementioned are successful, who wants to play some welcome-back-to-CS:S games? :D
 
AustinD said:
Before I had the mac spotlight shine down on me through my dirty windows, I played a few games on my pc. Luckily, its dead now, and im never going back to windows, and have absolutely no thoughts of putting vista/xp on my baby. But schoolwork has been slow lately, and ive seen ever faildogs.com picture, so im wanting to start my CS:S gaming back up, and have a few questions.


1. With 'crossover,' does that allow me to run steam (css) through my mac without installing vista?

2. If so, how cleanly will it run? I have a 20" 2.0 1gb baseline alum. imac.

3. If the aforementioned are successful, who wants to play some welcome-back-to-CS:S games? :D
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It will run steam. I had it installed and ran TF2 and it didn't do that bad. If you have the baseline alum and the lower end graphics card it might not run that well.

Maybe with settings tweaks it might be tolerable.
 
There's a new version in beta that is specifically designed for Steam games. They should run a bit better then :)
 
Hmm, both Source and 1.6 ran fine on my Macbook. Source was a little bit choppier, but, I'm sure your iMac will be able to handle it. Just grab Crossover for Mac 'til the 30 trial is up and make sure you like it, then buy it if you'd like :D Why Source, by the way? 1.6 is more fun in my opinion. :p
 
Well, I got crossover, and am now working on getting css. Ill let you guys know how it all goes.

Thanks! ;)
 
Boy did I miss CS:S. If it werent for two 11 year olds bickering over awps then id still be on.

Start up took a while, and closing it was a bit sketchy and left my dock invisible but with reflections so I restarted my computer and am fine now.

Everything ran perfectly fine, except the text was a bit messed up.

Final question, this works with all games that I can buy through steam right?
 
AustinD said:
Boy did I miss CS:S. If it werent for two 11 year olds bickering over awps then id still be on.

Start up took a while, and closing it was a bit sketchy and left my dock invisible but with reflections so I restarted my computer and am fine now.

Everything ran perfectly fine, except the text was a bit messed up.

Final question, this works with all games that I can buy through steam right?
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I wouldn't say "ALL" games bought through steam. A quick look at the compatibility section at the crossover website will tell you what games do and do not work.
 
AustinD said:
Boy did I miss CS:S. If it werent for two 11 year olds bickering over awps then id still be on.

Start up took a while, and closing it was a bit sketchy and left my dock invisible but with reflections so I restarted my computer and am fine now.

Everything ran perfectly fine, except the text was a bit messed up.

Final question, this works with all games that I can buy through steam right?
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the games running the source engine are most likely to work, because crossover only supports directX 8 (source games support it)
 
tominated said:
damnit :( where did you hear about it?
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well, i did hear about a "crossover for games," but apparently they decided to hide the information on their website, because i wasn't able to find it at all there when I last checked.


AND BTW, Austin, you probably should upgrade to 2 gigs of ram for gaming. 1 gig barely cuts it these days.
www.dealram.com
 
Guildwars and OSX

Crossover and GW works like champ for me, except for losing the mouse cursor sometimes when I switch away and back to the game. I use Crossover (and wine on ubuntu) to play older Windows games such as Baldur's Gate I/II, Planescape Torment and other goodies.
 
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