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So I've recently downloaded CrossOver games for my Mac and attempted to download the PWO game from the internet. I thought that I did so successfully, for it even gave me an icon for my doc. Still, when I tried to launch the game, the icon merely sits still for a few seconds and then vanishes. The game never starts and I sit staring at the screen for ten more minutes.

I've tried getting the latest updates for my mac and such, though no luck.

Any ideas? I'm a bit desperate by now.

It's always a good sign to get a game successfully installed in Crossover, but in reality that only half the battle. A game's launcher and installer are two completely different mechanisms, and sometimes Crossover can install a game with no problems but won't be able to handle its launcher correctly.

When an app in Crossover generates its icon on the doc for a few seconds and then vanishes, that's usually a sign that a critical windows component needed by the application launcher isn't present Crossover. You could try a demo of Crossover Games 8.0 when it comes out, there are quite a few improvements over 7.2.2. You could also try to launch the game with an +seh debug log running (to set this up, go to Programs->Run Command, select the appropriate bottle and the .exe launcher for the program therein, and then set +seh under debug options). If you're handy with log files, you can possibly determine which .dll the program is failing on, and if that's a .dll that you can toggle from within winecfg, try adjusting its settings (switch from native to built-in, or vice versa)