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Using iMac 2011 21.5, but same issues on separate Mac Pro as well. Mostly graphics issues.
Noticed problems after upgrading, problems persist after completely reinstalling.

Examples: Fallout 2 (GOG) seems to install fine, but when starting screen is garbled (like a mix of artifacts from game and desktop icons), or black screen with little patches of moving visible game graphics. Setting a virtual desktop in Wine settings eliminates issue but window is too small to play the game.

Same problem with Starcraft 1, battle Chess, etc...

Republic Commando through Steam seems to work great.

All these games worked fine in crossover games before upgrading

Other previous issues included something in Rainbow Six Vegas where the mouse would stop turning, as if you were being stopped by an invisible wall...but that happened on both versions.

Are these known issues that will be fixed, or did i miss a setting somewhere that might be causing this?

I have the same problem. Jagged Alliance 2 and Fallout worked fine with Crossover Games, but 'upgrading' to Crossover 11.0.3 caused the graphics to become completely glitch. Restoring the display reloaded the graphics into a window which work but the window is damn small. I've tried enabling virtual desktop in the wine configuration. When I set a higher resolution it produces a larger window, but then switches back to the small one as soon as the game loads.

Anyone know how to make the window larger in this case? Alternatively does anyone know a way to shift bottles back to Crossover Games 10 where at least the games were playable?

thanks

Adam

I am a new user of Crossover Games (11.0.3), on trial, and am having the same problem (Mac OS 10.7.3) -- and would buy the product if it worked. Somewhat ironic that it seems prior versions worked, while the current update does not.

Yup, I'm having the same problems. I'd just got to the last battle in Baldur's Gate after more than 100 hours play, so I'd love to find a solution.

Has anyone raised a ticket on this yet? And what are you using as a system/monitor? I'm using a Mac Mini 2011 using HDMI at 1080p as my monitor...

Adam Cliffe wrote:

When I set a higher resolution it produces a larger window, but
then switches back to the small one as soon as the game loads.

Anyone know how to make the window larger in this case?

This sounds like an in-game parameter is changing the resolution.
Most games, some more successfully than others, dictate the various aspects of screen graphics.

You set the CO display successfully via WINE config, but then when the game client begins running it resets those parameters.

Adam Cliffe wrote:

Alternatively does anyone know a way to shift bottles back to
Crossover Games 10 where at least the games were playable?

Switching back and forth is basically a "naming" issue.

The bottles reside in your Library directory. Apple has chosen to make that a hidden directory, so you have to play games to get to it.

Once in "<you>/Library" you will find "Application Support" and within that "CrossOver" (and probably if you upgraded) "CrossOver Games"

The upgrade from CrossOver Games to CrossOver simply moved the "Bottles" found in "CrossOver Games" to "CrossOver". (Forget about the other files and folders in that directory, they are simply recreated as needed, "Bottles" is the only important one.)

The easiest way to "fall back" is to simply rename "CrossOver" to "CrossOver Games." Then launch the old version of CrossOver Games.
Keep in mind, if you launch CrossOver 11 again, it will move everything back.

Richard Hoffman wrote:

I am a new user of Crossover Games (11.0.3), on trial, and am having
the same problem (Mac OS 10.7.3) -- and would buy the product if it
worked. Somewhat ironic that it seems prior versions worked, while
the current update does not.

For what it's worth... Lion itself is responsible for many if not most of the problems seen with CrossOver.
It is radically different from Snow Leopard (try to "save as in Text Edit), despite looking "the same" on the surface.
And graphics are just one area where many issues exist in Lion.

William H. Magill wrote:

Richard Hoffman wrote:

I am a new user of Crossover Games (11.0.3), on trial,
and am having the same problem (Mac OS 10.7.3) -- and would buy
the
product if it worked. Somewhat ironic that it seems prior
versions
worked, while the current update does not.

For what it's worth... Lion itself is responsible for many if not
most of the problems seen with CrossOver.
It is radically different from Snow Leopard (try to "save as in Text
Edit), despite looking "the same" on the surface.
And graphics are just one area where many issues exist in Lion.

Hmm, fair enough -- I'll try downloading Crossover onto a laptop I have kept running Snow Leopard (to preserve Rosetta) and see if that helps...

Thanks,

--Richard

Travis wrote:

Using iMac 2011 21.5, but same issues on separate Mac Pro as well.
Mostly graphics issues.
Noticed problems after upgrading, problems persist after completely
reinstalling.

Examples: Fallout 2 (GOG) seems to install fine, but when starting
screen is garbled (like a mix of artifacts from game and desktop
icons), or black screen with little patches of moving visible game
graphics. Setting a virtual desktop in Wine settings eliminates
issue but window is too small to play the game.

Same problem with Starcraft 1, battle Chess, etc...

Republic Commando through Steam seems to work great.

All these games worked fine in crossover games before upgrading

Other previous issues included something in Rainbow Six Vegas where
the mouse would stop turning, as if you were being stopped by an
invisible wall...but that happened on both versions.

Are these known issues that will be fixed, or did i miss a setting
somewhere that might be causing this?

low resolution full screen games are better run in a window with this version, otherwise Strange Things (TM) will happen. to do that, configure the bottle to use a virtual desktop, i.e. Starcraft 1 uses a resolution of 640x480@256 and is fixed at that resolution unless a hack is applied.

William H. Magill wrote:

The bottles reside in your Library directory. Apple has chosen to
make that a hidden directory, so you have to play games to get to
it.

Once in "<you>/Library" you will find "Application Support" and
within that "CrossOver" (and probably if you upgraded) "CrossOver
Games"

The upgrade from CrossOver Games to CrossOver simply moved the
"Bottles" found in "CrossOver Games" to "CrossOver". (Forget about
the other files and folders in that directory, they are simply
recreated as needed, "Bottles" is the only important one.)

The easiest way to "fall back" is to simply rename "CrossOver" to
"CrossOver Games." Then launch the old version of CrossOver Games.
Keep in mind, if you launch CrossOver 11 again, it will move
everything back.

there is a way to unhide it, if you know how to use Terminal.app, or you can even directly open the folder via Terminal.app as well (this works on snow leopard too), just launch /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app, then type the following into the terminal and press return:

open ~/Library/Application\ Support

that would cause a finder window to open directly at the location you need to be. From there, continue as the tutorial above would do in the Application Support folder.

Richard Hoffman wrote:

William H. Magill wrote:

Richard Hoffman wrote:

I am a new user of Crossover Games

(11.0.3), on trial, and am having the same problem (Mac OS
10.7.3)
-- and would buy the product if it worked. Somewhat ironic that
it
seems prior versions worked, while the current update does
not.

For what it's worth... Lion itself is responsible for many if not
most of the problems seen with CrossOver.
It is radically different from Snow Leopard (try to "save as in
Text
Edit), despite looking "the same" on the surface.
And graphics are just one area where many issues exist in Lion.

Hmm, fair enough -- I'll try downloading Crossover onto a laptop I
have kept running Snow Leopard (to preserve Rosetta) and see if that
helps...

Thanks,

--Richard

Well, I just installed Crossover 11.0.3 on a Macbook Pro 17" running 10.6.8, and I have similar graphics issues making SFC II unusable as I do on a Mac Pro on Lion (10.7.3), so evidence so far suggests the problem is the Crossover update, not Lion. I have 14 days left on my trial, will keep working with it to see if I can fix the problem via configuration changes.

Richard Hoffman wrote:

Richard Hoffman wrote:

William H. Magill wrote:

Richard Hoffman wrote:

I am a new user of

Crossover Games (11.0.3), on trial, and am having the same
problem
(Mac OS 10.7.3) -- and would buy the product if it worked.
Somewhat
ironic that it seems prior versions worked, while the current
update
does not.

For what it's worth... Lion itself is responsible for many if not
most of the problems seen with CrossOver.
It is radically different from Snow Leopard (try to "save as in
Text
Edit), despite looking "the same" on the surface.
And graphics are just one area where many issues exist in Lion.

Hmm, fair enough -- I'll try downloading Crossover onto a laptop I
have kept running Snow Leopard (to preserve Rosetta) and see if
that
helps...

Thanks,

--Richard

Well, I just installed Crossover 11.0.3 on a Macbook Pro 17" running
10.6.8, and I have similar graphics issues making SFC II unusable as
I do on a Mac Pro on Lion (10.7.3), so evidence so far suggests the
problem is the Crossover update, not Lion. I have 14 days left on
my trial, will keep working with it to see if I can fix the problem
via configuration changes.

I did get it to come up on the MBP running 10.6.8 with 800x600 resolution long enough to enter the CD key, but no joy after that. Am trying a virtual desktop to see if that helps...

I'd just like to confirm that running in a virtualised desktop does allow me to run Baldur's Gate. Of course it uses pushing the mouse to the edge of the screen as a major means of navigation, which in a virtualised desktop is not the easiest thing to do, requiring pixel perfect precision with your mouse to get the pointer right on the edge of the window...