Team Fortress 2 Forum

I have Crossover 8 and Team Fortress 2 on my iMac 25 inch, and it keeps on crashing. it never did this with Crossover Games 7 on Leopard? Why now?

When you say it never did this in CxG 7 on Leopard, do you mean you have Snow Leopard now or are you still running Leopard?

I have the Leopard that is Snow running right now.

um..okay...but when you were using leopard 10.5 with cx 7 it worked ?

and now you are using snow leopard 10.6 ?
If that is so , and you are using a radoen x3100 card ?

If yes , than this is the ati radeon drivers bug .Apple is working on a fix now..or so they say

Yeah, Snow Leopard has tons of behind the scenes improvements, and these improvements change how programs are loaded, so it leads to new CrossOver bugs that haven't been seen before. Apple and/or CodeWeavers are working on this, so if I were you I would wait for a fix and run CrossOver on an external hard drive or another computer running Leopard (10.5) while you wait.

Could I have a timeframe for a fix, or no?

Well, I don't work at Apple or CodeWeavers. And I don't know their priorities for fixing these kinds of problems, though I'm guessing that CodeWeavers would be forced to fix this eventually, and Apple just might do something about it.

With CrossOver Games 8, TF2 runs in DirectX 9.0 or 9.5 mode where it used to run in DirectX 8.1 mode in CrossOver Games 7. (You could get DirectX 9.x support in CrossOver Games 7 by enabling GLSL.)

The first thing to try to eliminate crashes is to turn down texture detail in TF2's video settings. The most likely cause of crashes is running out of memory, and high texture detail uses a lot of memory. If that doesn't help, try turning down other video settings, too.

You can experiment with the useGLSL registry key, setting it to disabled or enabled. Note, though, that disabling GLSL doesn't knock TF2 back to using DirectX 8.1 mode. That's because CrossOver Games 8 has been greatly enhanced so that it can achieve DirectX 9.x capability without requiring GLSL. So, if all else fails, pass "-dxlevel 81" in the launch options for one run to force TF2 to use DirectX 8.1 mode.