U.C. Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Got this in the mail. No one has reported it yet, so here goes. I am very excited to announce the first private beta of CrossOver Games: our new product specifically focused on allowing you to play games on your Intel Mac or Linux system. CrossOver Games lets you use your favorite OS and still be able to play the best of PC games, all without having to reboot or use a different computer. The plan is for CrossOver Games to be more 'bleeding edge' than CrossOver itself. That is, we will release early and often to bring the very latest in games to our users, while keeping the main CrossOver releases on a more stable timetable so that we continue to focus on stability and reliable use of productivity applications in CrossOver itself. We are very excited by the many games that CrossOver Games can play right now. We are particularly focused on the Steam game download environment, and the many many games that are available through Steam. That includes games such as Half Life 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, Civilization 4, Peggle, and many, many others. Our goal is to run every single game available through Steam. We are also supporting the popular multiplayer online games, including World of Warcraft and Guild Wars. Of course, we also hope that many other games will 'just work'. In theory, any game using DirectX (up through version 9) or OpenGL can be run with CrossOver. Sadly, many games may fail due to copy protection systems that do not yet work in CrossOver. We are pleased to see that some software developers are now providing 'no-cd' patches for older games; those patches may enable games to run in CrossOver that wouldn't otherwise work. We're really looking forward to finding out what games work for you, and where we still have work to do! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Great! I have never had much luck with Cedega, and in fact I already play some Windows games installed with Crossover. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-660527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affinity Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 That is great news! I hope it works out, I would love to get into Team Fortress 2 on my Mac. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-660702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvxiao Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Is Crossover a platform or tool for playing games on mac? The reason i using mac is to stop virus, though good news Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-661277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Is Crossover a platform or tool for playing games on mac?The reason i using mac is to stop virus, though good news Crossover is a "compatibility layer", based on Wine, which allows you to run Windows programs in Linux and OS X. You can't catch a virus by using Crossover, at least not one which affects the operating system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-661777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
idividebyzero Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 I use crossover for emule+. Works pretty good, not as good as regular emule in Windows but its insanely better than amule on mac, people looking for an emule client for mac should definitely check out crossover. I havent tried it for games yet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-661961 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 I use crossover for emule+. Works pretty good, not as good as regular emule in Windows but its insanely better than amule on mac, people looking for an emule client for mac should definitely check out crossover. I havent tried it for games yet. Why is emule+ so much better than amule, because of the GUI or is it faster? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-663151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
idividebyzero Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Everything. The UI is the same as regular emule, same options, it actually connects to servers quickly, it finds and retains sources almost as well as regular emule, it resumes downloads, its more responsive despite being in Crossover. Basically it actually works. I could never get amule to work, it took forever before I finally got it connected and it refused to find any sources for the files I had already started downloading with regular emule in Windows. I dont think it even tries to refresh sources, it takes the sources it has from the initial search and then you have to pray that those sources never go away until you finish the file... I would search for files I had previously tried downloading and there would be plenty of sources from the search result and it even said I was already downloading that file, but it simply refused to repopulate the sources for transfer so I was always left with little to no sources. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-663235 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 OK, thanks, I must try it then, albeit in my experience: 1)Amule (for Linux) isn't much worse than Emule 2)The Emule/Amule p2p protocol is trash when compared to bittorrent, IMO. Whatever I search these days, I get dozens of unrelated results (porno, cracks where no cracks are needed, exe which are not applicable...). And the speed always sucks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-663251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 The plan is for CrossOver Games to be more 'bleeding edge' than CrossOver itself. That is, we will release early and often to bring the very latest in games to our users, while keeping the main CrossOver releases on a more stable timetable so that we continue to focus on stability and reliable use of productivity applications in CrossOver itself. So I wonder if this means they will be staying closer to the frequent releases of Wine which lately have had many DirectX/OpenGL improvements. Wine can already play CoD4 well but the OS X compile has linking issues with Apple's X11 implementation. Codeweaver includes their own X11 server instead of using Apple's implementation, so a modern Wine version linked against their X11 server would be outstanding. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-663263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special-K Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 YES!!! GUILD WARS WILL WORK!!! Oh this just made my day. No more having to start Fusion to play it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-663340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hrgasr Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 So I wonder if this means they will be staying closer to the frequent releases of Wine which lately have had many DirectX/OpenGL improvements. Wine can already play CoD4 well but the OS X compile has linking issues with Apple's X11 implementation. Codeweaver includes their own X11 server instead of using Apple's implementation, so a modern Wine version linked against their X11 server would be outstanding. Hopefully. I've used crossover for a while, good product overall. I was able to play half life 2 and counter strike source; however, the frame rates were very inefficient so aiming in the game wasn't practical. Hopefully they can work those issues out with cross over games. BTW, crossover doesn't need to use any version of X11, it has its own qartz-like driver that translates directly if I remember correctly. I could be wrong. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-663347 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 BTW, crossover doesn't need to use any version of X11, it has its own qartz-like driver that translates directly if I remember correctly. I could be wrong. Sure they do, look in /Applications/Crossover/Contents/SharedSupport/X11/lib/ You are thinking of quartz-wm which Crossover uses, (it's provided by Apple), and it improves the look and window handling capabilities of X server based windows. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-663373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
idividebyzero Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 crossover installs X11 in some kind of flavor, you dont need the full huge package though, I have a 924kb X11 app in my utilities folder that popped up after installing crossover Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-663687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted March 12, 2008 Author Share Posted March 12, 2008 The Latest Beta of Crossover Games DIDNOT ask me for my OSX CD to copy quartz-wm from. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-663905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hrgasr Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Sure they do, look in /Applications/Crossover/Contents/SharedSupport/X11/lib/ You are thinking of quartz-wm which Crossover uses, (it's provided by Apple), and it improves the look and window handling capabilities of X server based windows. Yeah that's what it is. Hopefully now that apple put the latest xorg version of x11 into leopard (since leopard is now 100% unix certified from what i heard), it will allow crossover/wine to work a lot better in OS X. I remember reading on the wine website a long time ago that one reason they didn't have a main mac package was that apple's X11 had a lot of bad bugs in it in tiger. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-664363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 is the beta of crossover games publicly available ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-664388 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted March 14, 2008 Author Share Posted March 14, 2008 Nope and now we have Beta2 Hi Folks, I'm pleased to announce that we have made Beta2 of CrossOver Games available for your testing pleasure. I've included a list of changes, below, but the main highlight is that we've got sound working properly again on the Mac, notably with Team Fortress 2. Also, I have several favors to ask. First, after you've installed Beta 2, I would ask you to visit this web page: http://www.codeweavers.com/surveys/cxgames/ and take about 30 seconds to give us some input. We would really appreciate it. Second, with this release, we're trying a radical shift, and we'd appreciate your input on it. Specifically, we're thinking that we will start supplying only trial versions of CrossOver, and require all of our customers to unlock it. You should be able to quickly and easily unlock the beta with the email and password you use with us; please let us know if that's not the case. Thanks again for your testing. Your comments and test reports are greatly appreciated! Cheers, Jeremy Changes since Beta 1: * CrossOver Games 7.0.0beta2 - 2008/03/13 Games support: Fixed severe audio problems with some games on the Mac Many improvements to the Steam GUI -- including better store and communities support Guildwars framerate on Nvidia macs improved Various other games performance and rendering fixes CrossOver changes: Modified behavior of the bottle-update process on the Mac Added some tests to the graphics drivers on linux so that users will be warned of potential problems before installing games Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-666598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 U.C., can you look and see what version of Wine the current beta is based on? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-666613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted March 14, 2008 Author Share Posted March 14, 2008 $ /Applications/CrossOver\ Games.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOverGames/bin/wineloader --version wine-0.9.55-5433-g59178aa Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-666714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 $ /Applications/CrossOver\ Games.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOverGames/bin/wineloader --version wine-0.9.55-5433-g59178aa Awesome. I wonder if they used the d3d patches to enable CoD4 to work. Should be interesting to see what happens when/if Codeweavers new versions plays games that other Mac devs are releasing as Mac versions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-668327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ongeloof Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 How come you receive Betas of this software? are you on one of those annoying newsletter kist things Think Mark Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-668358 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 How come you receive Betas of this software? are you on one of those annoying newsletter kist things Think Mark Become an Application Advocate at Codeweavers and you get access. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-668380 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted March 16, 2008 Author Share Posted March 16, 2008 I applied for a beta long ago when Crossover didnot have an OSX version. Since then I am Beta Tester. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92583-crossover-games/#findComment-669393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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