Syberia Tips

small note:  There also is a DVD version of both Syberia 1 & 2, This DVD version launches Syberia 1 via a menu, a Mac user reported that the game then does not work, however if you directly start syberia.exe it does start but with some major graphic issues.  So for now this how to only works 100% when you have the original CD of Syberia 1

Make sure you inserted CD-Rom 1

• Start Crossover Games Setup
• Go to add-remove tab
• Select install software
• Select Install other game
• next, next, next
• On the question install into select new bottle, name it syberia and set it to win98
• Press next, give it a few moments and the Syberia installer will appear over the Crossover installation wizard
• Select install, next a few times, select full install and let it install
• Halfway through (at 53%) it will ask for CD-Rom 2, on the Crossover installation wizard press eject CD, yes your sure, insert CD-Rom 2, make sure its mounted and continue the install
• Once the installation is complete it will ask for CD-Rom 1, again eject using the Crossover installation wizard and insert CD-Rom 1 again, make sure its mounted and press ok and finish
• Press finish in the Crossover installation wizard and go back to Crossover Games setup
• Select manage bottle
• Select siberia and click configure
• Select control panel, winecfg, graphics, select emulate virtual desktop and set the size to 1024 x 768 and close the configuration.

After this the game will start and run as expected, you will only notice that when the games fades out and into a new screen your whole desktop will fade.

The game will requier CD-Rom 1 mounted to run.

The reason to set the virtual desktop is that if you dont and you run it fullscreen you might experience game lockups which in my case even made my whole system lockup, impressive but not very handy.  You wont experience any of these issues in a virtual desktop setting