Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Forum

Hi I'm running crossover games 9.1 and when I try this game on both Single and Multi I just get a black screen and I have to turn on my computer. Help?

Did you follow everything in tips and tricks? Also, are you running OSX or Linux. MW2 runs fine for me in Linux, but many others have difficulties with OSX.

We are aware that a recent Steam update has broken a number of games on the Mac, causing freezing at launch. We are investigating, but unfortunately have no workaround to offer at this time. 😥

If a game freezes and leaves CrossOver stuck in full-screen, you don't have to power off your computer. You can type Command-Option-R, the keyboard shortcut for the Restore Display item in CrossOver's Window menu. Once you're out of full-screen mode, you can use the tools in the Manage Bottles window to kill the stuck game -- tools like the Task Manager control panel or the Quit Bottle or Force Quit Bottle buttons.

As a last resort, you can use the system-wide Force Quit keyboard shortcut, Command-Option-Escape followed by Return, to force quit CrossOver.

Thanks, I suspected it was all the Steam updates.

We have confirmed that a number of recent bugs in Steam games are due to changes in the in-game community overlay DLL. For some games, disabling the in-game community feature via Steam's settings is good enough to fix the problem. For other games, that's not enough.

For those, you can go into the Wine Configuration (winecfg) tool via Manage Bottles -> select bottle with Steam -> Control Panel. On winecfg's Applications tab, click Add Application. Select the executable of the Steam game that's having the problem (or just type its filename, like foobar.exe) and click Open. Select the Libraries tab of winecfg. Type GameOverlayRenderer in the "New override for library" edit field, click the Add button, click the Edit button, select Disable, click OK, and click OK. That prevents the in-game community overlay from even being loaded for that game.

If you don't use the in-game community, you might find it simpler to just disable it for the whole bottle. To do that, just skip the above steps involving the Applications tab of winecfg. Just leave it with Default Settings selected, which is how it starts, and go straight to the Libraries tab and proceed from there.