CrossOver Mac 6.0 released

So how good is this Crossover mac, anyway? I'm thinking it would be good enough to run uTorrent (hey no?)

Does anyone here use Crossover, with any success?

Got the demo and will try it on Office 2002. If it works good enough for word and stuff, then I am set.

So how good is this Crossover mac, anyway? I'm thinking it would be good enough to run uTorrent (hey no?)

Does anyone here use Crossover, with any success?

Yep using Counter-Strike with it!

It runs perfect! The question is: Does HL2 with DirectX9 run smooth?

This would be great!

cYa ~Neo

Ok, does it work on PPC macs as well? That's amazing! I thought it would be dependent on x86 hardware for the instructions.

Jesus almighty!

Ok, does it work on PPC macs as well? That's amazing! I thought it would be dependent on x86 hardware for the instructions.

Right!

Does not work with PPC-Macs, sorry!

The only thing what is virtualised is the Windows API! So you still need the x86 instructions (correct me if I'm wrong )...

cYa ~Neo

Yeah, they told all of us beta users that we would get a copy of the final release.... I just checked my account and it hasn't happened... Lame.

I have been trying to get Half Life to work with no success,

Neo are there any commands you have to run in steam, or setting you need to change?

you have to buy a serial for the beta to get the final release

I have been trying to get Half Life to work with no success,

Neo are there any commands you have to run in steam, or setting you need to change?

No...

just installed Steam through the setup wizard and it runs fine!

Ah, and you can open ANY .exe file! A few days ago I needed a keygen and run it on Mac OS X

cYa ~Neo

No...

just installed Steam through the setup wizard and it runs fine!

Ah, and you can open ANY .exe file! A few days ago I needed a keygen and run it on Mac OS X

 

cYa ~Neo

Watch it, maybe you get infected bu a windows virus too

Can this handle the CloneDVD and AnyDVD programs ˆ have used so many times with windows??

Nice and all, but I use very few Windoze programs. The only one I use regularly is a Battle.net bot for Warcraft III, and I run that in a fully licensed Parallels VM.

The few games I play either work under Mac (WCIII) or don't run under Parallels/Crossover anyway (BF2/Halo) I'm perfectly willing to boot camp those games.

So it's a great concept, but it doesn't do much for me, considering that I've already bought a full copy of Parallels.

Steam Installs fine, always has, but i have yet to get half life to work

All I get is Gorden head half cut off the screen

I've always installed through CD's so this time i am downloading it, though its slow

Anyway hopefully it works

Thank yall

TheFreak

*sigh* Only Intel macs? Damn, no Universal? Lame.

EDIT: Well I didn't think about needing the X86 chip for this. Oh well.

Seems the same as the last beta. o_O

By which I mean DarkAges goes needlessly slower than previous versions and Guild Wars simply shows a black screen.

I still can't get HTML Kit to run on CrossOver. That's not good.

They really need to play "catch-up" if they want to make a dent in Parallels's market. So far it's slower and has a lot of technical problems. Parallels is basically running an entire operating system, not just an API, and still running circles around them. It's crazy...

I still can't get HTML Kit to run on CrossOver. That's not good.

 

They really need to play "catch-up" if they want to make a dent in Parallels's market. So far it's slower and has a lot of technical problems. Parallels is basically running an entire operating system, not just an API, and still running circles around them. It's crazy...

woah! there's a market for these kinds of things?

i want to hear from those readers who have run this release on an actual intel-apple computer.. everyone so far is saying "it's slow" on their beige osx box or "can someone else try?".. how does it run on a macbook or imac or the intel mac mini?

-pat

I have a 2ghz C2D MacBook and its horrifically slow. Apps take FOREVER to launch and perform just as slowly. An earlier beta ran DarkAges (2D mmo) almost full speed. Ever version since then has seriously run at about 2fps. Guild Wars just crashes, and yet HL (HL2?) runs fine, so its still got a lot of problems.

I have a 2ghz C2D MacBook and its horrifically slow. Apps take FOREVER to launch and perform just as slowly. An earlier beta ran DarkAges (2D mmo) almost full speed. Ever version since then has seriously run at about 2fps. Guild Wars just crashes, and yet HL (HL2?) runs fine, so its still got a lot of problems.

i went by what you had in your sig. my bad. does your macbook also run slow in parallels in the same scenarios?

Mine is a MBP 2.33 C2D with 3 Gb ram. Parallels runs windows at native speeds, easily as fast as my wife's new Toshiba.

Crossover is slow starting up, but once its running, most of the windows apps run okay. Half-Life is playable.

I quit using it with office, because the office apps were faster on parallels and with coherence mode it's pretty much integrated with osx. Also, Crossover couldn't run some of the key utilities I needed.

It's a great start, and bought it so I could play HL and other 3d games without having to reboot into windows, and its great for that. But so far at least, with the exception of the 3d apps, the experience with parallels is way better.

Mine is a MBP 2.33 C2D with 3 Gb ram. Parallels runs windows at native speeds, easily as fast as my wife's new Toshiba.

 

Crossover is slow starting up, but once its running, most of the windows apps run okay. Half-Life is playable.

 

I quit using it with office, because the office apps were faster on parallels and with coherence mode it's pretty much integrated with osx. Also, Crossover couldn't run some of the key utilities I needed.

 

It's a great start, and bought it so I could play HL and other 3d games without having to reboot into windows, and its great for that. But so far at least, with the exception of the 3d apps, the experience with parallels is way better.

now that's the first conclusive answer i have heard in this thread so far. thanks milesce.

i went by what you had in your sig. my bad. does your macbook also run slow in parallels in the same scenarios?

Runs Parallels great, including DA. Guild Wars doesn't work as it's 3D but that's to be expected.

I think the reason Half-Life worked and Guild Wars didn't is because Guild Wars requires the DirectX drivers. I'm not entirely sure if Parallels currently can install those. I'll give it a shot when my new iMac arrives next week.

I'm trying BFV now. More on this later on.

Install worked. I'll try the game tomorrow, right now I'm creating a DVD and need all computer power available.