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OK... When I first heard about this so called application Codeweavers Crossover for Mac about 1 year ago, I thought What a great Idea!!!!!! Only to try codeweavers to run I.E 6 because my work website is Microsoft bias... Sure it let you browse websites but, that was it. I needed to be able to access my vendor account via and SSL certificate... Not a chance with Crossover... UGH!!!!
Now... I check the site a few days ago and see Crossover for games... This puts another smile on my face.. Again.. I think..WOW.... I have been wanting to run an RC Flight simulator on my Mac... Again... nadda!!!! GreatPlanes G3.5 Or Hanger 9 FS ONE... or maybe even Clearviews flight sim...
I was going over the list of compatible games, Aren't allot of them already in Mac form??? I would buy this product if I could get something that worked, until then I will just wait on the sideline...

Hello.

Sorry to hear you have such bad experience. I feel you are being a bit unfair though, especially the "nothing works" and "nadda" remarks. What you mean is, that nothing YOU want to work works. There are lots of games that work that aren´t listed, they are just untested. You just need to try them first and make sure that the developers understand exactly what it is you want. Maybe a stupid question, but have you downloaded the demo and tried installing the application you want to see if it runs? Have you posted a report about what it is that doesn´t work and perhaps a log file or two? If you are really serious about getting it to work, you could apply for Advocate and get the possibility to help Codeweaver getting your program to work.

This isn´t easy stuff, I am sure that the developers would love your input.

Best regards
Oskar

Oskar Leijon wrote:

Hello.

Sorry to hear you have such bad experience. I feel you are being a
bit unfair though, especially the "nothing works" and "nadda"
remarks. What you mean is, that nothing YOU want to work works.
There are lots of games that work that aren´t listed, they are just
untested. You just need to try them first and make sure that the
developers understand exactly what it is you want. Maybe a stupid
question, but have you downloaded the demo and tried installing the
application you want to see if it runs? Have you posted a report
about what it is that doesn´t work and perhaps a log file or two?
If you are really serious about getting it to work, you could apply
for Advocate and get the possibility to help Codeweaver getting your
program to work.

This isn´t easy stuff, I am sure that the developers would love
your input.

Best regards
Oskar

Sorry about that... Guess I was a bit harsh. I am sure it is very difficult to do. God knows I dont have the ability. All of the flight sims that I mentioned above, wont even start. They try and then just quit. I know for a fact from being on RCUniverse.com (Over 300,000 members)that Mac users are desperate to have an RC flight sim run natively on a Mac. Here is a link to one of the more popular Flight sims http://video1.hobbico.com/demo/RealFlightG3Demo.exe It should run well on the first generation intel Imacs and does using boot camp. There is a newer version "G4" but it has allot more system requirements.
As far as being a demo version, they just disable some of the features.
CLearview flight sim needs OpenGl support. From reading other posts, it wont work but, Greatplanes G3.5 uses MS direct X. I forget what FS One needs.

Minimum Requirements
Windows Vista, XP, 2000, ME, 98
Local administration access required
Intel® Pentium® 1.0 GHz or equivalent
DirectX 9 (or above) feature-compatible video and sound card
3D accelerated video card with 32MB (or more) RAM (e.g., Nvidia GeForce 5200, ATI Radeon 9600)
Recommended video cards
256 MB RAM
1.3 GB hard drive space

Optimum
Windows Vista, XP
*Local administration access required
Intel Pentium 3.0 GHz or equivalent
3D accelerated video card with 128MB (or more) RAM (e.g., Nvidia GeForce 6800, ATI Radeon 9800)
Recommended video cards
1 GB RAM

OK... I just checked Great planes website again.. Realflight G4 has about the same requirements as 3.5

Minimum Recommended System:
Some graphical features may be disabled. Aerodynamic Calculations will still be high quality.
Windows* 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista®
Intel® Pentium® 1.0GHz or equivalent
512 MB RAM
3 GB Hard Drive Space
3D Accelerated Video with:
32 MB Dedicated Video Memory
Full Windows DirectX® 9 compliant (Pixel Shader 1.4 support)

Optimal System:
For best graphical performance.
Dual Core 2.4GHz CPU
2 GB RAM
3D Accelerated Video with:
256 MB dedicated video memory
(Pixel Shader 2.0 support)
Multiplayer Requirements:
56.6 Kbps (or faster) modem or LAN connection
InterLink™ Elite Controller:
USB Port
Compatible FM or FM-selectable transmitter (if using the interface mode)

Hanger 9's FSONE is the most demanding and might not run on some first generation Intel Macs (Mainly the lower cpu Mac mini's), plus.. I cant seem to find the demo link..
(Taken right from the website)
What are the system requirements?
The minimum system requirements are:

Operating System: Windows XP or Windows 2000
Processor: 1.8 GHz Intel Pentium IV or AMD Athlon XP 2500
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Hard Disk Drive Space Available: 4 GB
Video/Graphics: NVIDIA or ATI graphics card with 64 MB VRAM
NVIDIA: GeForce4 Ti, GeForce 5000-series (5200 or better)
ATI: Radeon 9000-series (9200 or better)

The recommended system requirements are:

Operating System: Windows XP or Windows 2000
Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Pentium IV or better or AMD Athlon XP3000 or better
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Hard Disk Drive Space Available: 4 GB
Video/Graphics: NVIDIA or ATI graphics card with at least 128 MB VRAM
NVIDIA: GeForce 6000-series or 7000-series (6600 or better)
ATI: Radeon X-series (X600 or better)

Will there be a version for the Mac?
There are currently no plans to make a Macintosh version of FS One.

Hello,

Thanks for the detailed feedback on these applications. Oskar is right in that many unlisted, untested games work perfectly well in Crossover, but as you're finding, many do not. Wine (and thus Crossover) is a blind re-implementation of the Windows API - it is extremely time consuming and difficult work for our developers, and even after a decade of work we are still nowhere near a full implementation of that API (add in the fact that windows changes as often as any other software...). Apps that are supported have been rigorously tested to make sure all of the windows elements that they need to function are present and in working order. Non-supported apps are kind of a "crap shoot" - they may call on elements that we've already implemented, or they may require functions and libraries that we haven't tackled yet.

Crossover Games is an exciting product for us (and for our users, too, we hope), but since it is much newer than CX Office, the list of fully tested, supported applications is still pretty small (though it is growing all the time). I tested the demo you linked to in your post, and was able to successfully install, but it does not run. This is less a case of system requirements than it is of Crossover not yet incorporating the windows elements that the game needs. We encourage you to check back with CX Games from time to time, as it's entirely possible that future releases will work with these apps.

Thanks.