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Wow. Some sort of heads-up before pre-orders closed would have been nice; I had pre-ordered and played through Boot Camp, but decided it wasn't compelling enough to continually reboot, so cancelled the pre-order.

Oh well, woe is me and all that.

Sorry for the lack of any 'heads-up', this was sort of a stealth operation. We didn't want to get anyone's hopes until we were sure, and we weren't sure until very recently.

How well did the game perform relative to your computer's specifications and STO's Windows minimum requirements? (My graphics card is an Nvidia Geforce 7300, so I was just wanted to determine beforehand how it may behave before I buy STO).

It performed beautifully on my 24" iMac Core 2 Duo, with Nv 8800GS. The only issues I had was that in sector space, if I moved the view with mouse it would ghost a bit. But that would clear as soon as I released the mouse click.

I also had many crashes in Earth Space Dock. After I got away from there, the game played well. Just gotta figure out what in earth space dock causes the crashes.

I just finished playing sto a few minutes ago with CX 8.2, aside from some lag time i didn't really encounter any problems. Though the cut scene intro didnt really play that well. The sun, or at least i think its a sun, was missing in huge chunks; big squares were inside and around it. i"ll continue to play and see if any issues may arise later in the game.

So far everything with 8.2 works fine with STO. The mouse seems sluggish on any graphic setting and the occassional DC or crash in starbase alpha (probably a cryptic issue) but everything works fine. This is the first time I've had such success with the WINE project/Crossover on my mac. Using the MBP late 2009 unibody model with 4GB RAM and a duo 2.8 GHz. Keep up the good work team.

Just thought I'd pass along my experience so far.

I've got an early 2008 MacBook pro running OS X 10.5.8 4GB RAM, 2.5 GHz Duo, with an NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics card. (I haven't upgraded to OS X 10.6 yet because I'm waiting for some programs that I used daily to get updated)

This is my first time trying out Crossover Games. Just wanted to see if I could get STO running. Downloaded 8.2 and the games installed and patched fine. However when I hit "engage" to start the game it gives me a warning that my graphics card drivers are not compatible with the game and a choice of using lower settings that may work or the option to try the high settings anyway. I've tried both choices and they send me to the STO loading screen which begins loading and after a few seconds of loading ends up crashing the application.

It's worth noting that STO does run flawlessly when I use bootcamp with Windows XP and gives me no errors whatsoever. I'd love to be able to run STO with out rebooting though so thanks for at least getting this out there so we can help you get it working well :)

I was forced to shut shut down my mac because the game became unresponsive. It was during a space battle with three Orion Corvettes if memory serves me. I've been in many space battles but this has never happened before, and hope it doesn't happen again.

I have a 27'' iMac with an Ati 4850 and a 2.66 i5. I generally run the game in windowed mode but ever since Cryptic released a patch a few days ago, the game has run flawlessly under the crossover games build.

I also have a late 2008 Macbook Pro (unibody) with an nVidia 9400M/9600 GT. Ive been able tot play the game full screen on this but I get an error when I try to switch to windowed mode.

But all in all, Im very very happy with the experience

The x64 debian package does not work with the game, the stand alone installer does.

I haven't been able to get it to work with any current release, beta, or nightly build. I can get through the installer, but I can't get the client to patch.

I'm new to CrossOver and bought the downloadable version of the game. I get an "access violation error..." when I try to run the installer to piece the .bin files together. Any hints to help the process along?

Thanks!

Sean

Yep, the game crashed on my 2.16Ghz Intel Core2 Duo with NVIDIA Geforce 7300 GT, right past the Cryptic and Atari logos I'm assuming the problem is my graphics card, but any suggestions anyway?

Steve Zalazowski wrote:

I haven't been able to get it to work with any current release,
beta, or nightly build. I can get through the installer, but I can't
get the client to patch.

The only version of Crossover that should work is Games 8.2, which you'll find in the My Account>My Downloads>Unsupported Downloads section of our website (after logging in). Guessing you've tried that one, as well?

We haven't been able to test STO in a few days due to an account snafu. More staff testing will commence tomorrow.

cswilliams wrote:

Yep, the game crashed on my 2.16Ghz Intel Core2 Duo with NVIDIA
Geforce 7300 GT, right past the Cryptic and Atari logos I'm assuming
the problem is my graphics card, but any suggestions anyway?

Did you select the 'lower graphics settings' option upon Game Launch? I believe that part comes before the Cryptic logo.

Also, you could try running the bottle in an emulated virtual desktop (i.e. windowed mode via Crossover). Go to Configure>Manage Bottles>Control Panel>Winecfg>Graphics, set to Emulate Virtual Desktop, and specify your desired size (within the correct aspect ratio for your display). "Apply", then "Ok". Now when you launch STO the entire program will run inside a window on your desktop.

Wesley Ellis wrote:

It performed beautifully on my 24" iMac Core 2 Duo, with Nv 8800GS.
The only issues I had was that in sector space, if I moved the view
with mouse it would ghost a bit. But that would clear as soon as I
released the mouse click.

I also had many crashes in Earth Space Dock. After I got away from
there, the game played well. Just gotta figure out what in earth
space dock causes the crashes.

I'm not entirely sure about your Space Dock crashes (try lowering in-game graphics settings?), but your 'ghosting' issue is easily fixed. See item 2 in the Tips & Tricks entry:

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=6730;tips=1

This fix needs to be re-applied each time you launch the game, unfortunately, but it's extremely fast and easy to do so.

You are correct. Lowering the graphics (in simple mode) to the bare min (max speed least performance) has made STO playable and fun. It was playable and fun with the graphics turned all the way up, but like I said I was crashing in SpaceDocks during moderate to high traffic. I had earlier tried scaling graphics to 50%, but that didn't fix the problem so I went all the way to the lowest settings.

It's not as pretty, but I can play any time I want without any issues. The ghosting is gone as well.

I'm having very good success running STO under 8.2 on my 27" iMac i5 Quad Core. There are a few graphics issues that I notice but no show stoppers. The weapons carried by myself and away team are multi colored and not metallic as they should be. Most of the time they are dark black/brown with green and red ends. That seems to be the biggest thing I've noticed thus far.

Looking forward to 9.0 and full support of STO :)

Oh yeah, I'm playing under the regular default settings. I did not select "use the lower settings" when I first launched the game.

Jack Phinney wrote:

cswilliams wrote:

Yep, the game crashed on my 2.16Ghz Intel Core2 Duo
with NVIDIA Geforce 7300 GT, right past the Cryptic and Atari
logos
I'm assuming the problem is my graphics card, but any suggestions
anyway?

Did you select the 'lower graphics settings' option upon Game
Launch? I believe that part comes before the Cryptic logo.

Also, you could try running the bottle in an emulated virtual
desktop (i.e. windowed mode via Crossover). Go to Configure>Manage
Bottles>Control Panel>Winecfg>Graphics, set to Emulate Virtual
Desktop, and specify your desired size (within the correct aspect
ratio for your display). "Apply", then "Ok". Now when you launch
STO the entire program will run inside a window on your desktop.

I tried both already, didn't work.

I have had a few bumps here and there in the game. One thing that has occurred quite a bit is the controls become unresponsive and if my ship/character are moving, they will continue to move and i cannot do anything about it except to force quit the program.
Another "bump is the mouse will begin to lag, making it difficult to look around or move. It doesn't happen as often so this isn't a big deal.

I have been successful with the beta 9 version of CXG. I do have the game disk, and install from there.

Runs smoothly on my MacPro, with the new ATI card.

Plan some testing with my iMac at work.

Using latest Crossover v.9 on a mid-2010 17" Macbook Pro.

I am able to log into the game, but when it gets to the loading screen for the area I logged out of, the game crashes with an error about video memory.

If the error is accurate, you can try telling Wine about your VRAM directly, instead of making it figure it out. Use Programs > Run Command. Select the bottle with ST:O in it. Give the command "regedit".

In the registry editor, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D. If there is no Direct3D key, use Edit > New > Key to create it. With the Direct3D key selected, do Edit > New > String Value. Name the new value VideoMemorySize. Set its value to the number of megabytes of VRAM you have. For example, "512" (without the quotes).

When I run ST:O, it complains about my video card (GeForce 8800) and offers to run with lowered settings. Does it do that to you? If so, the obvious thing to try would be to accept the lowered settings.

If it doesn't offer that option, there may be a way to force it. I don't know off-hand if the game keeps its video settings in a config file, the registry, or the like. Or if it accepts command-line parameters when launched. You might search the web to see if that sort of thing is documented somewhere.

We didn't want to get anyone's hopes until we were sure, and we weren't sure until very recently.and want to earn sto credits