Dream Aquarium v1.1524 Forum

Hi,

DreamAquarium runs great on CrossOver 9 but I cannot get it to run full screen. The menu bar and dock remain visible all the time.
Changing the graphic settings (in the Wine Configuration - Control Panel) does not help.

Anybody?

There are two possible issues. The first is how CrossOver manages full-screen mode, the second is how CrossOver interacts with newer MacBook Pros with dual GPUs that the OS switches between automatically.

Regarding the first: CrossOver decides whether or not to hide the menu bar and dock based on the specific resolution requested by the game. CrossOver tells the game about all of the resolutions supported by the primary display and also invents a "fake" resolution which is your normal desktop size minus the menu bar (22 pixels of height). If the game requests this fake resolution, then CrossOver does not go into full-screen mode and the menu and dock remain visible. If the game requests any other resolution, then CrossOver hides the menu bar and dock and goes into true full-screen mode. So, make sure you configure the game to use one of the real resolutions and not the fake one.

For the second issue, there's a known problem with newer systems that can switch the GPU on the fly. On those systems, CrossOver can't switch into full-screen mode. That problem will be fixed in CrossOver Games 9.1 which we expect to release very soon. In the meantime, you can work around it by using the third-party gfxCardStatus tool to switch to the Nvidia GPU before launching CrossOver.