CrossOver Games v7.0.0 Released
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http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxgames/
Now gamers can play the games they want, on whatever platform they want! With CrossOver Games, you can run many popular Windows games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux PC. Whatever your tastes first-person shooters, fantasy, strategy, MMORPGs CrossOver Games provides the capability to run many popular games titles. CrossOver comes with an easy to use, single click interface, which makes installing your games simple and fast. Once installed, your game integrates seamlessly into your Desktop. Just click and run! Best of all, you do it all easily and affordably, without needing a Microsoft operating system license.
CrossOver Games is built on the latest versions of Wine, based on contributions from both CodeWeavers and the open-source Wine community, and then lovingly hand-crafted by Stefan Dösinger, our very own Wine/Games connoisseur. Unlike other CrossOver products, which are aimed primarily at office productivity applications (and hence maximum stability), CrossOver Games aims to bring you the latest, greatest, bleeding edge improvements in Wine technology. This means that the newest games run faster and better under CrossOver than under other versions of CrossOver, or other version of free Wine, for that matter. You want to run your Mom's knitting software? Maybe you should look elsewhere. On the other hand, if you need better framerates on Linux or Mac so you can frag your buddies: check out CrossOver Games!
Supported Games
CrossOver Games is capable of running a range of Windows games. To see if your favorite game is supported, please check our CrossOver Compatibility Center.
CodeWeavers officially supports the following games:
World of Warcraft
EVE Online
Guild Wars
Prey
Steam Games, including:
Half-Life 2and more...
Team Fortress 2
Counterstrike
Counterstrike: Source
Civilization IV
Peggle Extreme
Call of Duty 2
Max Payne 2
Grand Theft Auto 2
Screenshots (Click for Full Size)
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CrossOver Games GUI on Mac OS X
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Team Fortress 2
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Half-Life 2: Episode 2
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Guild Wars
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Hrm... why the hell would you play WoW in wine when you can play it direct in OS X with same frame rates as in XP?
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Sneaky_Chopsticks Notebook Deity
Nice find Xander!
Too bad you have to pay for it. -
I'd love to see some benchmarks..
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Raymond Luxury-Yacht Notebook Consultant
Doesn't run Hurrican; the magnificent Turrican remake----freeware.
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Obviously there isn't that much wrong if it gets the same FPS between native XP play and OS X play.
So why else would you not want to play it?
I prefer the OS X version of WoW for the integrated iTunes control and video recording. -
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does it offer good performance(same with bootcamp xp)?
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Crossover is also for Linux, so that would be why WoW was mentioned.
I tried the trial of this, it has improved MUCH over the previous version (which was the "regular" Crossover Mac) - EverQuest and Guild Wars both ran fine (after some minor tweaking in EQ's case, while Guild Wars is a supported game so it required no tweaking). The only issue was that I had lower framerate than when running natively on one occasion so far (in one zone only, whereas for the rest of the time it was fine), I'll be fiddling a bit with settings to see if I can get rid of that.
I'll be buying this unless the week of trial turns up some major issues that I didn't see yesterday -
masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook
its not going to be able to get its performance up to XP. xp is as fast as its going to be. (and xp can run every game, while wine can only run a handful)
that said, I use WINE all the time. it rocks.
CrossOver Games v7.0.0 Released
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Xander, Mar 25, 2008.