I recently purchased Command & Conquer The First Decade. I downloaded Crossover Games, installed, didn't have the OS X install disk, but extracted the quartz-wm file and placed it in the required folder. Corssover then worked fine. I am still under the 7 day trial period and will purchase if it allows me to play any of the games. The website stated that some of the games included in the C&C THE 1ST DECADE were supported. But it stated nothing about Command & Conquer the First Decade. I decided that I would try it to see if any of them would work.
I managed to install the game, but didn't have enough space on my MacBook Pro OSX 10.4.11 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of ram and 100GB HD for all of the games. I did a custom install and installed only a few of the games. The games I installed first were C&C (The Original with the Expansion from the disk) and Tiberium Sun. Installation worked fine but when I would lauch the application and selected Command & Conquer it wouldn't access the optical drive to stream data and gave me an error. Error window: "Application Error: C:\ProgramFiles\EA Games....etc (the default file location and file name I assume as it wouldn't show the whole directory)" - An (Yes grammatical error, I have a screen shot of it) Privileged instruction was executed at address 004dd5b4 - Click on OK to terminate the application.
So clicked ok and terminated the ap. I then tried Tiberium Sun and it started to launch and gave me an error that it couldn't recognize the CD-Rom. "Please insert the CD-Rom and restart the application". I quit the application and restarted but nothing, then I uninstalled. I then reinstalled the applications that were supported:
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Command & Conquer: Renegade
I had an error upon installation: "Feature Transfer Error"
Feature: Command & Conquer Red Alert II
Component: Red Alert 2
File: D:\data7.cab
I clicked OK and installation failed. I reinstalled:
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Command & Conquer: Renegade
These applications both operated, but with bugs. The screen would freeze up, sound still worked, keyboard and mouse still worked, but I could control what I was doing as I couldn't see it.
Is there anything that I can do to fix any of these problems? Would Codeweavers consider coding C&C The First Decade to their compatability for mac? I would greatly pay for these features.