CrossOver Editor's Review
Based on Wine, CrossOver Games is a tool for Mac specialized in the virtualization of games created for the Windows operating system that do not have a version for OS X. Titles like Spore, Portal, World of Warcraft, Eve Online, Guild Wars, Prey, Half Life 2, Team Fortress, Max Payne 2, Civilization IV or Grand Theft Auto 2 can be played on the.
Run Windows apps on your Mac with this handy emulation tool.
Name: CrossOver Version: 14.1 (28539) Mac Platform: Intel Contains: Pre-K'ed OS Version: higher 10.7 or Whats new: It's again possible to install.Net 3.5. Set a hang when utilizing ATOK, a 3rd party Japanese input method. The Equation Editor menu bar in Word 97 and Word 2003 operates. The Equation Editor. The application's installation files are commonly found as crossover-games-demo-10.3.0.dmg or crossover-games-demo-10.1.2.dmg etc. CrossOver Games for Mac lies within Games, more precisely Tools. The most popular versions among the program users are 10.3 and 10.1. This Mac app is an intellectual property of CodeWeavers Inc. Download CrossOver 19.0 for Mac. Fast downloads of the latest free software!
Running Windows on a Mac has been a quest for all switchers and 'tweeners since the introduction of Intel based Macs in 2005/2006. It hasn't been an easy go, either. Options are limited to either Apple's Boot Camp, which lets you create a separate partition and boot into Windows natively, or to virtual machines like Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion. Each option has its pros and cons; and almost all of your options really required a machine with a great deal of punch in order to get past the performance hits you're going to take, especially in a VM option. This is why I'm very excited about CrossOver. It’s a multiplatform Windows emulation tool that works on your Mac.
CrossOver is a commercial version of Wine; and allows you to install many popular Windows applications on your Mac or Linux computer. You can think of it as an emulator, but it's different, because it doesn't require a Windows OS license. Your applications seamlessly integrate into Mac OS X. All you need to do is just click and run and app. You don’t' have to reboot or switch to a virtual machine; and most importantly, you don't have to buy Windows.
Adding new Windows software is easy. All you have to do is insert the install CD in your machine. CrossOver will recognize it and offer to install it. Once installed, CrossOver will configure the application to run on your Mac.
The application comes in two different versions – Standard and Professional. CrossOver Standard provides individual users with the ability to run a wide variety of Windows software cleanly and economically. CrossOver Professional is meant for corporate users, and provides them with the enhanced deployment and management features an enterprise environment demands.
Pros: No Windows license fees needed or required. Works on your Mac or Linux box. Runs applications as a native Mac/Linux application.
Cons: Won't run EVERY Windows application. Those requiring specific graphical support may not run well or may not run at all. MS Office 2010, for example will not install or run correctly, according to the CrossOver Compatibility Database.
Conclusion: CrossOver is perhaps one of the best little known gems of the emulation/virtual machine world. A commercial version of Wine, it runs a lot of games, but may not run some of the productivity software you're looking for. However, its cost is very reasonable; and its performance is decent, though you will likely see some level of performance hit. CrossOver is well worth its cost, especially if you really just need to run one or two Windows based apps on your Mac. Depending on your need for support and updates, CrossOver Pro may be a better value for you than CrossOver Standard. Just make sure you understand what you want to run, your support needs and have checked the Compatibility Database before you buy.
Reviewed version: 10.1.1
With CrossOver Games, you can run many popular Windows games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux PC. CrossOver comes with an easy to use, single click interface, which makes installing your games simple and fast. Once installed, your game integrates seamlessly with your Desktop. Just click and run! It's like running Windows on your Mac or Linux machine, but without Windows. No rebooting, no switching to a virtual machine, and no Windows Operating System license required.
Note: Version 19.0.1 has been flagged as malware (report can be found here), so we have left version 18.5.0 which is clean.
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 and Henri Verbeet, our very own Wine/Games connoisseurs. 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 Games than under other versions of CrossOver, or other version of free Wine, for that matter. If you need better frame rates on Linux or Mac so you can frag your buddies: check out CrossOver Games.
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What's New:
- 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.