Homeworld 2 Forum

Ok, This might sound picky, but hell...

I am one of those awkward people who would like the option to be able to run the game in a window, OR in Fullscreen.
So with all my other Crossover Games, i managed to create a secondary shortcut to each game with an argument to allow it to run in a window, (e.g. -windowed, or -w)
However for Homeworld 2, when running in a window, there is no window border, so it is stuck in the top-left corner of the screen.

I found a workaround for this by enabling the Emulate a Virtual Desktop, which works perfectly.. However, Then the Fullscreen shortcut then also runs in a window.
I tried copying the EXE file and setting up Per-Application settings, but Crossover seems to ignore them and just use the default settings for every app.

Finally, I found what appeared to be my answer, running this: (obviously changing out the text where appropriate)

explorer /desktop=TitlebarName,1024x768 "/path/to/your/game.exe"

However i would get this in response:

"Unable to run Homeworld2, Administrative access to this folder is required."

and im completely stumped. If I run the explorer command to create a Virtual Desktop, and run Explorer INSIDE that, browse to the game and run it, It works...
If i run the game without the explorer application, it works... but when i try to run it like that it wont.

Can you shed any light on this?

The method I used to resolve the issue:

Created a second bottle called HW2-Windowed,

Went into "/Users/myuser/Library/Application\ Support/CrossOver\ Games/Bottles/HW2-Windowed" and deleted the 'drive_c' folder, then created a Symlink of the 'drive_c' folder from the previous Homeworld 2 bottle i'd made and placed it where the one i'd just deleted is...

Then just configured this bottle to run with a virtual desktop,

opened the Run program dialog and configured the game to use a custom resolution the size of the desktop window and saved it to the program menu.

[EDIT]
I did also find that for Crossover to remember the different resolution settings (e.g. homeworld2.exe -w 1680 -h 1050), i had to copy the homeworld2 exe and name it something like homeworld2win.exe and specify the parameters with each seperately.. e.g.

"homeworld2.exe -w 1680 -h 1050"        -> Homeworld 2 Bottle
"homeworld2win.exe -w 1280 -h 800"      -> HW2-Win Bottle
``` otherwise crossover seemed to forget what resolution i wanted it to be run at for each...