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Every game I try installing with CrossOver Games just goes through the installer wizard, only to halt at "copying new files" every single time. Running on a brand new MBP with no problems concerning the super drive.

I'm particularly trying to install Dead Space and Dead Space 2, both of which have a Gold Medal. I've tried many games besides them, with many different install options and different bottles, nothing makes this progress. Every install just sits at "copying new files" and will eventually prompt that the installer crashed.

Edit: I'm just seeing now that the only way to install the 2 games I purchased this software for was to pay for them all over again and use them with Steam. That is a load of shit and your software should be able to install them from the disks people bought the first time. Thanks.

Hi,

Well ...there's a number of things to get annoyed at here, but I suggest that
Codeweavers really isn't part of the circle -- they cannot do anything about the
(inane imho) scsi driver design Apple has chosen to implement...I wrote something
about this over here....see; http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/cxgamesdrm
There is a sourceforge group trying to address this situation, but I have no idea
how functional it is (if at all)....see; http://sourceforge.net/projects/xnu-extras/

Best idea (and to an extent this applies to linux as well), is don't buy disc media
unless you are 110% sure there is no disc based DRM -or- that an official patch exists
to remove said DRM (and even then, some official patches only work in linux again due
to differences in OSX) -- I don't buy disc media at all any more, not for te iMac nor
the linux box.... hmm, come to think of it, I haven't bought discs at all for nearly
10 years now, and that includes music CD's, video DVD's ...

...I also think you may have been a bit too eager to give up on the problem... according
to winehq, this title stopped installing (in linux at least) due to a wine regression
at wine-1.3.6 and seeing as the current CXG is based on wine-1.3.9, that problem may be
evident here as well -- it is possible you could have installed things using a different
route (old wine version, create an iso image).. not sure, but the resolve seems to apply
to linux so I'd suspect same may be true for the Mac...see; the howto article at;

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14457

Even so, seeing as the disc release use Securom7 (which I know doesn't work in OSX with
discs), even if you were able to get it to install, you'd still be left with the OSX scsi
driver + disc based DRM not working together, and end up looking at this...;

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/dmca

Cheers!