Team Fortress 2 Forum

Hi, I am really interested in purchasing Cross Over and ditching Windows as much as possible (of course I have to keep it for Battlefield 2, 2142 (sucks on OS X I hear), and all the other Steam games).

Anyways, I have the newest Pernyn 2.4 MBP with 2 gigs of ram, 8600 256mb VRAM, Leopard 10.5.2, etc. etc.

I am using the Cross Over trial to see if it is a possibility and so far I am really let down - but do appreciate the hard work that goes into this by the Cross Over staff. I don't understand how people can get this to play properly? If I run it on the reccomended/low settings (which is crazy for an 8600 with 256mb vram) I get from 20-100 fps. The low settings look just awful though, so when I up it to the high settings it gets 100fps for about 30 sec, if I run a bit fps drop down to 10, then the game exits (crashes), every time. I have reinstalled it, tried both Win XP and Win2000 bottles, etc.

How do you guys get such good settings, full screen, and no crashes? Also I noticed that a lot of textures are missing or bad, the main one being water. Is there a fix for this by chance?

Thanks for the hard work - hopefully I can get this to work and become a Xover acolyte :)

We're having some troubles with the GeForce 8600 and Radeon HD 2x00 drivers. Did you install the Leopard graphics update? It fixed a few issues.

Some users reported performance drops due to decals in the game, e.g. if you shoot a bullet hole in a wall. Can you see if that causes the problems for you? If yes, you can maybe work around the problem by disabling decals in the in-game console, as discussed in this forum already. We couldn't reproduce the decal problem ourselves, but we did notice some problems with the spy cloak.

Also, make sure to disable the HDR settings in the game. They hit a performance bottleneck in CrossOver.

Stefan Dösinger wrote:

We couldn't reproduce the decal problem ourselves

maybe because your testing is done only with a couple players, LAN, etc?

all thats needed is for you to do some realworld testing... jump onto a server and actually play for a bit... you'll definitely be able to see the game running at 10-15fps after only a couple minutes.

and i asked in a different thread about how to disable decals on metal surfaces. the console/autoexec commands i used disabled them nicely, on all surfaces except for metal ones. you wouldn't happen to know how to disable them would you?

thanks!

also looking forward to version 7 :D

Oh, we do test the games on real-world servers, James and Andrew and Jeremy are playing the game(s) regularly online. I have no idea how to disable decals on metal cans though :-/