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Hi, I'm new to wine and crossover games, just installed Crossover Games for mac and instantly created a bottle for Orange Box, assuming that such a prominently supported game would be the safest place to start in testing out crossover. Basically, after inserting the Orange Box CD-ROM into my (Intel) iMac's superdrive, all that happened was crossover froze, the disc became impossible to eject and my whole computer essentially got confused and impossible to run correctly, until several stressful hours later (after trying every known method to manually eject the disc) the mac just randomly spat out Orange Box.

Basically, I have no idea what happened but I am not going to risk trying any other game for fear of the same thing happening again. Has this happened to anyone else or do they know what rookie mistake I am making? Any help would be much appreciated.

It's an Officially supported game with Silver compatibility.

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/group/?app_parent=3881;

What version of Crossover Games?
What iMac specs? Video, etc?
What version of 10.6?
What do you mean the "whole" machine got confused and impoosible to run correctly?

Did you do a Force-Quit if you had problems under Mac OSX?

You can also post in the appropriate forums as well.

Hi

Try putting the disk in without crossover open and see if your imac can at least mount it

Alex

I would not be scared about inserting the install CD again. If all ejects fail just reboot your computer and hold the left mouse button while booting. Unless there is a hardware error (which means its unrelated to wine or Orange Box) your CD will be ejected at that time (its the fail safe eject). It is technically possible to get your CD stuck, I have had this happen to me on a laptop as something fell exactly right above the cd drive will a CD was in it, it made a little bump in the case and therefor the cd was stuck. Thats not likely to happen though with an iMac. If the first install does not work try again. Another thought would be to make a disk image of the CD in question and let the Cross Over install run from there. You can use Disk Utility to make the image (insert the CD, launch Disk Utility, highlight the CD/cd title, File->New->Disk Image of "name").

Perhaps just try again. The CD version is not as... well... I dunno if supported is the word... It'd be easier if you had bought it off steam and downloaded all the game data straight from steam. It was probably just a hiccup. Give it another shot. Works for everyone else...

Good luck

-Keo

You can also eject a disc from an Intel iMac by pushing something small like a paperclip against the little button inside the cd slot, but it's fiddly.