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I bought crossover games(im using 7.2.0) a while back so that i could play tf2 on my mac os x. but from the very beginning, it started lagging. i have tried to fix it by lowering resolution to lowest, texture to lowest, and anything i can to lowest. But it still lagged allot. i decided to deal with it, but now i cant handle it anymore. The lag is horrible, ill be walking and the next thing i know i run into a wall. Is there anything i can do to fix this? At first i thought i downloaded it wrong, but i dont think that can happen.

P.s.

Sorry if i dont respond immediately, i wont be checking back but every few minutes. thnx

some help would be nice...

Um..sorry for the late late reply.

So...May i know whats your computer specs ? Which line of Macintosh are you using?

Generic Solutions For both linux and mac :
lowering the graphics settings using the launch options -dxlevel 80
Install directx runtime into your TF2 bottle
Disable GLSL via regedit

Please do let us know how this goes . Thank You for your support for CrossOver

i used -dxlevel 80 and it seemed to work a little.
would win xp be the bottle that i use? that was the default... if not, what do i use?
my mac seems not to want to download regedit... it just comes up with a white screen

Hey Sam if you bought the crossover you probably have support. Try opening a ticket or browsing previous tickets.
In any case, please post the computer specs as many macs are a little underpowered for games and may not meet the minimun reqs.

ok i cant find the specs i went to about this mac then more info but where do i find the specs?

Um..To Sam Ross ( Coo! same name ^^ )
Um..for your mac it should be the apple button on the top left hand corner of your screen and click about your mac ..
yea.
Things important to note :
Processor
Ram
Graphic Card

Its true , like what David mentioned, that quite a number of macs are underpowered . Especially the older ones using intel graphic cards .
Okay..After going through the endless list of tickets ,submitted reports and searching on google .. MacBOOks (like the polycarbonate original model with the integrated x3100 intel graphic card ) Will most likely be not able to run any hl2 mod games . Even through bootcamp , theses games would just crash with and error as the graphic card is umm...very underpowered ..

Ah well .. a safe bet where which line of macsbook can run Hl2 mod games would be those models exported during mid 2008 to current 2009.
check it out from wikipedia ..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook.

As for desktops ...if your are using the new 20 or 24 inch imac ..You can ..run the game ..

Sam I'm afraid you're a bit mixed up there. The Macbooks with the GMA 950s (the original Macbooks) cannot run HL2-based games very well. However the Core 2 Duo models with the X3100 can run them pretty well. I know this for sure as my sister plays TF2 all the time on her Macbook. :)

nah i have the 20 inch desktop

Oops sorry..haha ya..got kinda mixed up >.<
x3100 graphic card will be able to play any hl2 mod games..while...intel 950 integrated...cant

um...20 inch... with 2.66GHz processor

has NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory
Ya...lets just say...your main memory and graphics memory are shared..
I read up..that your model ...comes with 2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) or 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 8GB
..but besides that..TF2 is quite memory intensive . .using umm bout 600 mb ram on start up

..um..yea..reading from previous posts.
Stefan mentioned..
umm quoted :
It may help to play fullscreen, that way Mac OS can stop the desktop compositing, saving maybe 20-30 megabytes of video memory. The double buffered desktop + a double buffered texture for each window consumes quite a lot of memory.

CrossOver doesn't have any video memory management inefficiency, but we have pretty little control over what is stored in vram. It is almost entirely up to the driver to manage this. On Windows, Direct3D apps have better control over video memory management. They can persist and evict resources manually, but often aren't too good with that, or put everything into the 'managed' pool and tell windows to manage things for them. On OpenGL everything is driver-managed by force.

CSS crashing each and every time I join a game, with Crossover. As soon as the data is finished transfering and I see the team select window, it freezes and goes to desktop with that frozen image as the desktop. After cmd+Q I can end the program but even after reboots I still can't play.

I've tried reinstalling a few times, changing settings in the CSS console, changing the launch settings in steam, and nothing is working.

Here are my specs-

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB41.00C1.B00
SMC Version: 1.31f0
Serial Number: W88176UT0P2
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
Chipset Model: GMA X3100
Type: Display
Bus: Built-In
VRAM (Total): 144 MB
Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
Device ID: 0x2a02
Revision ID: 0x0003
Displays:
Color LCD:
Resolution: 1280 x 800
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Built-In: Yes
Display Connector:
Status: No display connected

Thanks in advance,

Don

Um, so why are you posting about CSS in the TF2 forum?

Don wrote:

CSS crashing each and every time I join a game, with Crossover. As
soon as the data is finished transfering and I see the team select
window, it freezes and goes to desktop with that frozen image as the
desktop. After cmd+Q I can end the program but even after reboots I
still can't play.

I've tried reinstalling a few times, changing settings in the CSS
console, changing the launch settings in steam, and nothing is
working.

Here are my specs-

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB41.00C1.B00
SMC Version: 1.31f0
Serial Number: W88176UT0P2
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
Chipset Model: GMA X3100
Type: Display
Bus: Built-In
VRAM (Total): 144 MB
Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
Device ID: 0x2a02
Revision ID: 0x0003
Displays:
Color LCD:
Resolution: 1280 x 800
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Built-In: Yes
Display Connector:
Status: No display connected

Thanks in advance,

Don

Hey Don ,

judging when both Hl2 mods crashed on your com , i really do not think that it is crossovers fault here. btw which version of crossover are you using
Do you have any conflicting software? some thing like logitec mouse ...ya..

do try to run a debug