suleiman Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 The CrossOver team has just released an update to its popular WINE-on-the-mac implementation. Along with a host of important fixes and updates, including better Half-Life 2 support, the new package boasts an experience in IE that should be entirely refreshing. With the Parallels team progressing at most alarming rate, the pressure has been intensifying for who will come out the champion in the world of Windows emulation. How befitting that the newest line of mac enthusiasts should decide who to crown the champion. Here I was thinking we bought our macs to run OS X on them What's new in this version: Modified handling of Mac Suitcase fonts so that they are available to more Windows applications. In particular, fonts should now work properly in Visio 2003. Altered menu generation so that Managed bottles produce usable menus. Extensively revised the documentation and online help. Cut/Copy/Paste keyboard shortcuts (Command-X,C,V) work better. Added several general printing fixes. Fixed several Half-Life 2 crashes. Improved support for non-American keyboards. Improved support for non-English versions of some applications. Adjusted the GUI in numerous small ways. After this version, it will no longer be necessary to quit the CrossOver CD Helper in order to overwrite CrossOver. Macs with integrated Intel graphics chips (MacBook, Mini) can run DirectX 8.x graphics. Fixed crashes and install failures due to libraries in /usr/local. Fixed crashes due to certain font files. Tool palette windows are now movable. Improved scroll-wheel responsiveness. Fixed Create Icon to preserve working directory and command arguments more reliably. Fixed handling of Caps Lock. Fixed the IE screen-flicker that appeared for pages with Flash content Many other improvements to IE behavior Improved handling of CD detection and ejection. Installers that require multiple CDs should now install more graciously. Some fixes to Outlook 2003 behavior, including printing fixes. Improved support for Equation Editor Corrected display of fonts in DirectX 8.x games, like Half-Life 2. Changes resolution in full-screen games should work better. Numerous other Direct3D improvements. Download available here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infamous Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 (edited) There's an ATI wrapper which translates DX9 to OpenGL in some way, as far as I know. Why don't they use it? Edited December 23, 2006 by Infamous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guyin916 Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 emulation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzuka Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Now if only it could run Oblivion, then I could delete my Windows Partition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guyin916 Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 There's an ATI wrapper which translates DX9 to OpenGL in some way, as far as I know. Why don't they use it? :pirate2: perhaps it's not as easy as you think... derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OoOoOoO Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 perhaps it's not as easy as you think... derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr yea. it's convert only shader e.g. but good dx shader support will be very good for proper dx9 support. Currently realization wine shaders converter can use 2 ways - gl ARB and glsl, second one allow to translate dx shaders 2.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Is it just me, or does Crossover get slower with every release? I tried to set up a bottle and it took almost 15 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostgame Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Yeah, CrossOver is painfully slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suleiman Posted December 24, 2006 Author Share Posted December 24, 2006 This latest release is ridiculous. I can't even boot up IE without it crashing. Coherence here I come! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vin Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Now if only it could run Oblivion, then I could delete my Windows Partition Dude, get real. Oblivion running in my windows, it's already a painful situation. So, right now u want Oblivion running in emulated version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwer Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Is it just me, or does Crossover get slower with every release? I tried to set up a bottle and it took almost 15 minutes. Well, I used and existing set of bottles and it got itself confused over that. Once it was over that it is fine. Application load times are still the same as previous releases. Its an improvement - you have to nurse it a bit longer than previous releases. Two of my errors that I'd reported in the alpha have gone in this one. That makes life a LOT easier for me.... Now - my pet peeve is not so much crossover's fault, but the apple implementation of xwindows. I'd love a way to change the default font. I mean, really, it'd go a long way to making it all x apps look a bit better by default. And everyone - Its not an emulator. //R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenVa Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Yeah, My pet peeve is when people call crossover(which is basically wine) an emulator... Then name wine means Wine Is Not an Emulator. Does anyone know why crossover for mac is so slow? I mean the linux port seems to run at a decent speed... I don't understand why this port is so much slower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwer Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Yeah, My pet peeve is when people call crossover(which is basically wine) an emulator... Then name wine means Wine Is Not an Emulator. Does anyone know why crossover for mac is so slow? I mean the linux port seems to run at a decent speed... I don't understand why this port is so much slower. I've heard it said that apple's implementation of x leaves a bit to be desired....;-) //R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai Haibara Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Bah With this release I can even run Ultima Online 2D at full speed withouth problems Sherry Haibara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stadsport Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 I think Crossover is a terrific app, but seriously this is a terrible release. I used to be able to run DarkAges at near full speed, now I can't even get through the intro. It's just too laggy, I have to Apple+Q. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phun8890 Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 I just installed CrossOver and waiting for Steam to download Counter-Strike: Source. CS:S is basically the only game I play when I am on a break or feel like playing game. CrossOver so far run pretty good to me. Hopefully it'll come out soon with final and stable. Tried to install AIM on it to see if it work, but it keep freezing. So maybe will try again tomorrow when I finish downloading CS:S. This is so awesome! I am in love with Mac OS now. Been wanting to get a Mac for while, but don't like buying expensive Apple hardwares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai Haibara Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Codeweavers has just released CrossOver Office 6.0rc2 for Mac, check the beta page. Sherry Haibara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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