CrossOver Support - Community Forums

Hello,

Sorry to say this but in my opinion this program is crap. I haven't got a single windows app/games to run properly on my Intel based MacBook Pro...
So far I've tried Star Trek Online, LOTRO, Mass Effect 1, Star Wars Battlefront II, Guild Wars and Rome: Total War, even tho I have looked at the forums and done what they have said. I can install them well enough but as soon as it comes to having to run them, nothing happens. ☹️

I'm hoping it's just me being a noob as I would love not to have to be forced into installing Windows in Boot Camp again, it really eats up my 160 GB HDD...

That said, I've only got the 30-day trial version and I'm not about to pay money for this program when it can't even remotely do what is promised for me...

I hope someone can help prove me wrong.

My Mac's specs are:

Intel based MacBook Pro 13,3",
2.23 GHz Core 2 Duo-processor,
2GB DDR3 RAM,
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M up to 256 MB DDR3 RAM,
running Mac OS X Snow Leopard

I am using CrossOver (Plain) Version 9.2.

Lastly, can anyone tell me what CrossOver Games is supposed to do better with games than Plain? I've tried installing a few of these games in the Games version but still can't get any of it to work. And now I only have 4 days left on the trial. (I think it is quite odd that the Plain version has a 30 day trial whereas the Games version only has 7 days?)

Mark -- the first thing that leaps to mind is that it sounds like you've (mostly) been trying to run games using CrossOver standard. The main difference between the two products (crossOver and CrossOver Games) is that CrossOver Games actually has entries for games in the installer assistant. If you were installing games using plain CrossOver I presume that you were installing them by selecting 'Other Application' option (and possibly doing the same when running CrossOver Games). The 'Other Application' link will most likely follow a different installation path than the one that most forum users are seeing.

So, step one is to try installing a well-understood game (STO is a good option, or Guild Wars) in CrossOver Games by selecting the appropriate entry in the install wizard. That may get you further.

That said, if no game ever starts up at all, it's possible that you are encountering some serious graphics failing that prevents any game from drawing to your screen. Someone else may chime in with suggestions about that angle.

-Andrew