Half-Life 2 Forum

i just tried to purchse Bioshock through steam. i went to paypal, and submitted everything but then i got a link that wanted me to go back to steam and review my purchse. i click on the link and it says that firefox doesnt recognize the steam app.

i just went ahead and payed with a credit card, but i would like to know how to do paypal.

The issue is that Steam registers itself as a handler for a new URL scheme, steam:. Currently, CrossOver does not export the URL scheme handling claims of Windows applications out to the Mac environment. Therefore, Firefox doesn't know where to deliver the steam: URLs.

There is a kludgy workaround. Using the debug features of CrossOver's Run Command dialog, you can pick a bottle and open a shell configured for issuing commands for it. In that shell window, you could then issue a command consisting of the word "cxstart", a space, and then paste the Steam URL. For example:

cxstart steam://blah/blah/blah/whatever

Unfortunately, after all of that, I don't believe that BioShock works with CrossOver, yet.

Unfortunately, running the command

cxstart steam://hardwarepromo/305

on my Mac doesn't do anything but return me to the command line.

This is in a shell configured to access the bottle with Steam in it? In other words, open the Run Command dialog, select the bottle with Steam in it from the pop-up, and then click Open Shell.

Still, the Steam hardware promos are known to cause trouble for CrossOver. In our experience, they pop up a dialog saying that the promo doesn't apply (or something like that) and then Steam hangs.