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I installed Plain Sight via Steam. All I'm getting is a blank screen. Anyone else have any better luck?

This may be due to a known problem recently introduced by a Steam update. Or, since I have no experience with running Plain Sight under CrossOver, it may be something else.

Here's my boilerplate for the Steam update issue:

We have confirmed that a number of recent bugs in Steam games are due to changes in the in-game community overlay DLL. For some games, disabling the in-game community feature via Steam's settings is good enough to fix the problem. For other games, that's not enough.

For those, you can go into the Wine Configuration (winecfg) tool via Manage Bottles -> select bottle with Steam -> Control Panel. On winecfg's Applications tab, click Add Application. Select the executable of the Steam game that's having the problem (or just type its filename, like foobar.exe) and click Open. Select the Libraries tab of winecfg. Type GameOverlayRenderer in the "New override for library" edit field, click the Add button, click the Edit button, select Disable, click OK, and click OK. That prevents the in-game community overlay from even being loaded for that game.

If you don't use the in-game community, you might find it simpler to just disable it for the whole bottle. To do that, just skip the above steps involving the Applications tab of winecfg. Just leave it with Default Settings selected, which is how it starts, and go straight to the Libraries tab and proceed from there.

I have the same problem trying to play Battlefield 2 Bad Company on steam. I followed every step from the post above with no success. I have searched all over this forum and steam forums and have not found a fix for this. Hope anyone from here comes around with a solution. I regret buying this thing before knowing first that it will work. Will ask for a refund instead and just stick to bootcamp :S.

Hi,

The above post (from Ken) is nearly a year old, and as such, is old news - things
have moved well beyond that point. I -think- the situation regarding this app is
pretty clear...ie; it is ranked silver against linux, and the only medal ranking it
has ever received for MacOSX is 'known not to work' -- ergo I would expect it to
work in linux and not in OSX. Just why it doesn't on the Mac is another question...
...some apps don't work in OSX at all for various reasons...

Cheers!