CrossOver Games

CrossOver Games - Your Windows Games, Your OS, Seamless!

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 D�singer, 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 2
� Team Fortress 2
� Counterstrike
� Counterstrike: Source
� Civilization IV
� Peggle Extreme
� Call of Duty 2
� Max Payne 2
� Grand Theft Auto 2

What is new in this release:

• Fixes for Skyrim on Linux.
• Patch fixes for World of Warcraft.

What is new in version 10.2.0:

• Worked around the 'backwards elbow' bug in Rift on Lion.
• Fixed behavior of Plants vs. Zombies in windowed mode.
• Improved loading and play of Portal 2.
• Fixed 'Add a Character Friend' behavior in StarCraft 2.
• Fixed the Perfect World International launcher.
• Added a 'steamid' tag to the CrossTie format. This allows a CrossTie to install and detect games via Steam.

What is new in version 10.1.1:

• Fixed several known issues with the upcoming Mac OS 10.7 Lion.
• Fixed the Guild Wars footstep bug.
• Updated several built-in CrossTies. (These upgrades have been available online for a while.)
• Improved the MojoSetup (.bin installer) upgrade path.
• Added a progress dialog during initial open of a CrossTie on the Mac.
• Added support for the 'installer' keyword which supports CrossTies for stand-alone executables.
• Added RAR support to CrossTie installation.
• Added a 'recreate' button to the menus control panel.
• Fixed some menu issues on the upgrade path from CrossOver 9.2.
• Added a means to turn off requesting a stable OpenGL back buffer.
• Set CX_NO_GL_BACKING_STORE in the environment to enable.

What is new in version 10.1.0:

• New games support:
• Rift now installs and runs.
• Other changes:
• Added the ability to install World of Warcraft via the download client. There are some issues with the WoW launcher, but the game runs well when launched via WoW.exe.
• Some improvements have been made to the Star Trek Online launcher. The game still suffers from performance problems.
• Added CrossTie support for .rar files.
• Made several improvements to menu and association handling.
• Resolved a bug launching some games in Steam.

What is new in version 10.0:

• The primary new feature of these releases is our new 'CrossTie' technology. CrossTie builds on and expands on our compatibility profiles so that not only is CrossOver constantly updated with the latest and greatest recipes, those recipes can now be launched with a single click. It is now easier than ever to install thousands of different applications on your Mac or Linux system using the most up-to-date recipe.
• Additionally, this version incorporates the nearly 4,500 patches that went into making Wine 1.3.9 over the past year, bringing a wide range of improvements to many applications. We have particularly focused on Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and the Steam games platform.

What is new in version 9.1.0:

• Games support changes:
• Added Star Trek Online as a supported game.
• Added StarCraft II as a supported game.
• Added Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as a supported game.
• Added Alien Swarm as a supported game.
• Fixed a crash in the Star Trek Online launcher.
• Fixed a 9.0.0 regression in FlatOut 2.
• Fixed a 9.0.0 regression in Stranded 2.
• Fixed a 9.0.0 regression in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and many other games on Mac OS X.
• Fixed installation of Tales of Monkey Island.
• Fixed a focus-grabbing problem in Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online.
• Fixed an installation issue with EVE Online (false report of a DirectX failure).
• Made several application profile tune-ups.
• CrossOver changes:
• Fixed a crash in the winecfg audio tab.
• Fixed installation of the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime.
• Added support for the 'Microsoft HTML Rendering Engine 7' package for use as a dependency in C4Ps that require it.
• Fixed full-screen mode for Macs with auto-switching GPUs.
• Merged with Wine version 1.2. Many improvements and bug fixes.

What is new in version 8.1.0:

• Add support for Left 4 Dead 2
• Fix a problem with directory permissions in World of Warcraft in Ubuntu 9.10
• Fix a number of problems with Guild Wars
• Fix a number of Mac audio issues which should fix Steam voice chat
• A few minor adjustments for Snow Leopard
• Fix a bug registering CrossOver under Snow Leopard

What is new in version 8.0:

• Improved behavior of the Steam game store
• Fixed several problems with memory management -- this should fix TF2 crashes, among others.
• Enabled Shader Model 2.0 and 3.0 by default
• New supported games:
• Dragon Sky
• Last Chaos
• Jade Empire
• Ether Saga
• Perfect World
• Left 4 Dead
• Tales of Monkey Island
• Shaiya (Though only in non-English versions, for DRM reasons)
• Fixed various regressions in:
• Half-Life 2
• Team Fortress 2
• Spore
• Guild Wars
• Civilization IV
• LOTRO (unsupported)
• EVE (unsupported)
• Pharaoh (unsupported)
• City of Heroes (unsupported)
• Lego Star Wars (unsupported)
• Bejeweled

What is new in version 7.2.2:

• Fixed a memory issue with Half-Life 2 engine games such as Team Fortress 2

Limitations:

• 7-days DEMO trial