Crossover Games 7.0

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Anyone using this? I bought it yesterday and have been playing around with it. It's a little rough around the edges, but it works well enough to play any of the Steam Engine games and plenty of other games.

I've been playing a lot of Team Fortress 2, and it works pretty damn well. There are a couple of bugs in some surfaces with shaders, such as water (see the screenshot), and every now and then the game crashes between maps. Otherwise it's perfect and it's fast enough on my 8600 GT at 1680x1050 and mostly max details to not have to worry about the framerate.

The other Valve games seem to run great, although all of them run in only DirectX 8 mode, because there is a bug in Apple's video driver preventing the shaders from working properly in DirectX 9 mode. Because of this, shaders such as bumped mapped surfaces and water tend to render wrong or look ugly, but otherwise the games run well.

The fact that these games can run at all on the Mac and near native speeds is nothing short of amazing. There are just a couple of rough spots that could be ironed out in the next couple of patches, and then this software would get my full recommendation. As it is, it's better for if you have time to tweak around with stuff, since it's not a trouble free solution. It's definitely worth more than a passing glance though, especially if you hate dual booting.

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Xover Games is a amazing peice of software, and I think it is the only real solution for MAC gaming. People argue WINE is cool and Cedega is sweet, but both of them are nothing to Xover Games. The support base and devolopment on Xover Games is 2nd to none.
 
Mac, not MAC, its not an acronym.

second, you realize CrossOver games is just a commercial implementation of the WINE platform. Cedega is merely a derivative of WINE All three are essentially the same thing. The only real differences are interfaces and support. You get commercial support from Cedega and CrossOver if you buy them.
And actually.. Cider is where Mac Gaming is.. It just hasn't caught on yet.
 
I only say Xover Games is better then WINE becuase, in my experince with WINE on *nix it is poorly supported and pretty buggy/glitchy.

Cedega was better.

Xover Games felt much mroe polished and was supported just about everywhere I could look.

Cider?

Off to google.
 
WINE just takes some configuration and optimization for your system, something that you need to do. That is a benefit of the commercial packages, they do that for you. Course, that also bloats the program a bit, but hey, whatever. I personally like customizing, so I'll stick with WINE until Cider catches on better. EA is using it quite a bit as of late.
 
Is this just an Intel Mac thing or does it work on PowerPC's as well?

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Damn, it's Intel Mac only.
 
How did you get TF2 to work... i got steam to install then i installed CSS then i installed TF2 but once i started installing the 2nd game (i think) steam like.... disappeared....
 
Yeah, I use this for playing a few games. It's not perfect, but it's pretty damn good. It's also really helpful to have installed for launching small windows apps. I have a piece of weird hardware that needs a small Windows utility to run and Crossover runs it well.

Anybody who's on the fence about this should download the demo and check it out. It's $40, or it comes free when you buy regular Crossover for Mac (only $43 if you're a student).
 
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