Meredith Johnson
CrossOver 25 includes lots of great updates for Mac and Linux, in addition to more supported games and more supported platforms with less hassle to bring next level gaming on Mac (YES it works on the latest Steam update). Read on to learn all about what CrossOver 25 has to offer, and use the deal code NEXTLEVEL25 to save 25% off the price of CrossOver+ until March 25, 2025.*
More updates
CrossOver 25 ships with the following updates:
- Wine 10.0, bringing with it over 5,000 changes that offer improvements to a variety of applications
- Wine Mono 9.4.0
- vkd3d 1.14
- MoltenVK 1.2.10
- D3DMetal 2.1
More games
This release also offers a lot of newly working games, including:- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Path of Exile 2
- The Last of Us Part 1
- Street Fighter 6
- Tekken 8
- Avowed
- Age of Mythology: Retold
- Fallout 76
- Manor Lords
- Monster Hunter Rise
- Dead Space
- Dragon's Dogma 2
- Age of Wonders 4
- Elite Dangerous
- Hero's Land
- Nioh 2 - The Complete Edition
- Far Cry 6
- Need for Speed Heat
- Teardown
More platforms
No matter what platform you like to purchase your games from, we want your CrossOver experience to be exceptional. For our Steam users, we're happy to report that Steam startup time is significantly faster with this update.For our GOG Galaxy and Epic Games Store users, you are in luck: both platforms are now supported on macOS.
Less hassle
Many of our gamers are tinkerers, but we know not everyone wants to fiddle with their games to get them working. For a more seamless gaming experience, we now have a new configuration system so games work great out of the box without additional configuration or needing to use game-specific CrossTies.The most frequently used aspect of this system will be the graphics settings. If the Graphics setting under "Advanced Settings" in the right sidebar is left set to "Auto", it will use wined3d, DXMT, DXVK or D3DMetal depending on the setting we have in our database.
We also now can autoenable AVX for games that currently require ROSETTA_ADVERTISE_AVX=1.
Lastly, we also can set overrides for a variety of other settings that used to be CrossTie-specific. For example, audio now works on certain games that previously required CrossTies to fix the audio, including The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and Fallout 4. Furthermore, if you update your Steam bottle with the prompt in the upper right corner of CrossOver, multiplayer will now work in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition without needing to use the game-specific CrossTie.
How to get it
Customers with active support entitlements will be prompted soon to upgrade to CrossOver 25. Alternatively, you can download the latest version here.
If CrossOver asks for registration, use your codeweavers.com email address and password to register and unlock CrossOver. Email info@codeweavers.com if you need more help.
What's next
We took a little break from CrossOver Preview releases while CrossOver 25 was in beta, but we will be back to pushing out updates to Preview very soon! To stay in the loop about future Preview and stable releases, subscribe here.* NEXTLEVEL25 not valid on renewals or purchases of CrossOver Life. Limit one per customer.
About Meredith Johnson
Meredith has been with CodeWeavers since 2019, and currently wears both the QA Manager and CrossOver Product Manager hats. After getting her PhD in linguistics, she somehow stumbled into the Free and Open Source Software world. When she isn't testing CrossOver, she's probably perfecting yet another bean stew, jogging slowly, buying even more linen tunics, doing a face mask or doting on her perfect chunky baby.
