Half-Life 2 Forum

Hi, I'm trying out Crossover to see if I can run Half Life 2 and related games on my MacBook Pro. I've come across some of the known issues and sorted things out, it seems to be running fine now, but it does come up with a message whenever I launch a game saying that my video drivers are out of date and I should download the latest version. I've just been ignoring it as I don't really know what to do, not actually being on a windows pc I imagine that trying to download drivers and update them won't work as it normally would. It seems ok so far, but I just wondered if I should be doing something about it and if so what?

You can safely ignore that warning. Steam maintains an internal windows driver database. Since it knows nothing about the video drivers on Mac or Linux it will complain every time.

You can tell it not to warn about this again. The issue is, as Jeremy says, that the MacOS driver versions do not match the Windows ones. Not only the numbers are different, the version number itself has a different format.

We are thinking about just faking the newest Windows driver version to get rid of this message, but then you'd need a Crossover update every time a new Windows driver is released to adjust this version.

Actually... I've got the same problem. On a 24" iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16GHZ w/ a Geforce 7600GT 256MB. so I ignore as stated.. and I get a white screen where the menu should be!!! :( The MacBook Pro is fine (Radeon x1600 128MB).

Macs with Nvidia graphics will have problems with Source engine games. You need to set the shader detail video setting to low. The problem is that you can't even get into the game because it locks up before you can access the video setting dialog. The solution is to add "-console" to the launch options for the game. That turns off the feature where the background behind the main game menu is animated, which is what's triggering the lock-up. Once you launch it that way, change the video setting. If you like, you can then remove the "-console" from the launch options.

Ken Thomases wrote:

Macs with Nvidia graphics will have problems with Source engine
games. You need to set the shader detail video setting to low. The
problem is that you can't even get into the game because it locks up
before you can access the video setting dialog. The solution is to
add "-console" to the launch options for the game. That turns off
the feature where the background behind the main game menu is
animated, which is what's triggering the lock-up. Once you launch
it that way, change the video setting. If you like, you can then
remove the "-console" from the launch options.

Thanks for the tip, and my apologies for the belated response :)

UPDATE: I got it working, it'll only work Windowed for me, which is fine :)

Sadly, I have a new issue.. now it keeps freezing at random locations, and the sound is in a loop/stuttering! :( I have 30 days or so to trial this version out of crossover, because if I can get halflife2 to work flawlessly, then I'll no doubt buy it! :D