Team Fortress 2 Forum

i have an imac running version 10.5.6 with an ati radeon 2400 HD and the tf2 runs great on it. however, when it finishes installing it doesn't appear in the crossover menu like or anywhere else on the hard drive, but the hard drive recognizes it that it still takes up space on it. so when-ever my mac logs out and want to play it again after i log back in, i have to re-install everything all over again while it takes up more space on my hard drive but i cant find it anywhere to boot it after installation without the re-install everytime. also of note, even after on the steam menu at finishes updating and says it read to play, crossover is still running and saying its installing even though steam says it finished. could this be it??

thanks

You're saying that TF2 isn't appearing in the steam games list? To confirm, open up Crossover, go to the installed programs menu and select Steam. (You may have multiple copies of Steam in your programs menu if you've been installing it repeatedly - it doesn't matter which one you select.) Wait a little while for Steam to open. In the main Steam window, select the My Games tab. Team Fortress 2 should show up in that list under installed games. Team Fortress 2 itself won't show up in the Crossover installed programs menu unless you created a start menu shortcut when you installed TF2. Also, by the time Steam automatically starts after you install it, there should be a Finished button in the Crossover installer window. Clicking that should close the installer window.

@nmccalla: To answer your fundamental question, CrossOver Games puts Windows programs into bottles. You will find a bottle at:

/Users/(your username)/Library/Application Support/CrossOver Games/Bottles/(name of bottle)

Steam installs its game files into C:\Program Files\Steam, by default. That is translated by CrossOver into a sub-folder of the bottle:

drive_c/Program Files/Steam

Putting those together, you get:

/Users/(your username)/Library/Application Support/CrossOver Games/Bottles/(name of bottle)/drive_c/Program Files/Steam

Now as to your troubles getting Steam to work, please:

• Make sure you are using CrossOver Games rather than mainline CrossOver. The latter is for productivity apps.

• Make sure you are using the latest version of CrossOver Games. Click the My Account link along the top of this page. Then click My Downloads in the left-hand sidebar. From there, you can download the most recent version to which you are entitled.

• In the preferences for CrossOver Games, on the System Integration tab, make sure you've selected a valid folder to which your account has write access for the Programs folder. By default, CrossOver Games uses /Users/(your username)/Applications/CrossOver Games. The Programs folder is where CrossOver creates launcher mini-applications that you can use to launch Windows programs from the Finder or Dock. This folder is also what populates CrossOver's Programs menu. Once you make sure that this setting is good, you can try selecting Clear and Rebuild Programs Menu from the Configure menu.

• When you install Steam, use the supported software package for Steam from the list (rather than installing it as unsupported software). Selecting the package tells CrossOver to apply certain smarts to the way the program is installed. Part of these smarts let CrossOver know that the installation has completed once the installer launches Steam. (Normally, CrossOver assumes the installation is still in progress so long as any program launched by the installer is still running, which matches what you described.)

In general, I recommend that you let CrossOver Games create a new bottle for Steam when you install it. If you have old bottles which contain your previous attempts to install Steam, you can remove them using CrossOver's Manage Bottles window.