Hey All,
I'm on a free trial, whose sole purpose is to play my favorite game of all time, Deus Ex, on my macbook.
I have to say, the beginning of testing it was awful. Frame rates made the game nearly unplayable. There were several moments where the game probably dropped to 4-5 frames per second by my naked eye.
However, eventually through some tinkering, I got the game to run at an acceptable level. For comparison I am running it on a 2022 M2 Macbook Air, absolute base level (8gb ram, 8 core cpu and 8 core gpu)
Running the game in a Windows XP 64 Bit Bottle. Not sure if running in a 32 bit bottle makes any difference. I have resolution set to 1280x800, all texture details set to "high". I am running the Revision version but with vanilla maps (don't judge) as I just decided I don't like the new maps. I do not have the High Definition Texture Packs enabled.
Communicated a bit back and forth with the Crossover team, I am feeling good that eventually this will improve, as it is quite a technical challenge to navigate the layers of Windows, X86 and running a 32 bit application.