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CrossOver 6.2 supports Team Fortress 2
The latest version of CrossOver, Codeweavers' Mac and Linux application designed to get Windows games and applications working on those systems, has been released. CrossOver 6.2, now available, features a number of different updates both to increase compatibility and to make Windows applications run faster than ever.
And first among these updates is the fact that it will now run Team Fortress 2 right out of Valve's new Orange Box, as seen in the video above (caution: awkward narrative and bad acting ahead-- skip to about 2:09 to see the actual product). They're also saying it features improvements when working with Outlook, and, in the strangest feature description ever, they say it really will work much faster-- when you install Leopard.
CrossOver is available as a free trial on their website, and to promote the new release, you can get it for 10% off when you enter "zomg" as a special deal in the shopping cart. Has anyone tried running TF2 in Boot Camp yet? If that doesn't work so well, and you've really got to play Valve's new game, CrossOver might be the way to go.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Bryan said 5:24PM on 10-04-2007
TF2 runs fine in bootcamp.
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Steve said 5:51PM on 10-04-2007
How can it run fine when the Valve software isn't releasted until Oct 10th?!
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Matt said 5:55PM on 10-04-2007
You can pre-order the Orange Box on Steam and you can play TF2 right now.
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Travis Bell said 5:56PM on 10-04-2007
I've been running TF 2 in Boot Camp since day 1 and it runs perfectly. All the settings cranked and it looks freakin' gorgeous too.
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Jordan said 5:59PM on 10-04-2007
TF2 works great in Bootcamp on iMac 2.4 GHz 1GB Mem. Highly recommended.
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Adrian vG said 6:00PM on 10-04-2007
It's guys like these that makes me feel ashamed of being an apple fanboy...
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GQmacguy said 6:08PM on 10-04-2007
I would agree that it runs beautiful in Bootcamp! But, i'm really excited to try this way. It would be nice to not have to restart my mac, hold down alt, select windows, boot into that, play the game, then all over again to go back to my glorious OSX. Plus, the wife gets kinda pissy when she sees XP running on the mac! She acts like I've been cheating or something!
Going to test this tonight.
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simon said 6:29PM on 10-04-2007
Hmm..I gonna buy Xbox 360 version.
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duscrom said 7:09PM on 10-04-2007
Psst... Boot Camp is only a loader that allows you to emulate BIOS, and isn't what actually runs Windows..... It's just an installation assistant.
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Gandhi said 7:09PM on 10-04-2007
TF2 and all HL2-engined games and mods work great on my MBP 2.4 model, with all settings cranked up it looks glorious at native rez on my glossy 1440x900 LED screen.
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Rob said 7:22PM on 10-04-2007
I think you guys are missing the point of Cross Over. You can run certain Windows programs on your Mac in OSX WITHOUT Windows.
You don't need to give $$ to MS to buy Windows. For me that is a good enough reason to prefer CrossOver Mac over BootCamp, Parallels or VMWare Fusion.
But you should first check out the CrossOver wensite to nake sure that CrossOver Mac will run all those Windows programs that you care about.
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Nick Schoeneberger said 7:58PM on 10-04-2007
I have a mid-2007 black Macbook (that I love) and I tried Crossover, Parallels and BootCamp (WinXP) to play TF2. Parallels was dismal (although TFC plays fine in Parallels). Bootcamp had horrible texture issues although successive releases of the TF2 beta have improved overall stability of TF2 on my Macbook, it continues to be plagued by crappy crappy visuals. I tried the Crossover Mac 6.2 demo yesterday and got the flat out best performance I've seen on my Macbook for TF2 AND for Half-life 2 as well! There are unfortunate problems with text in chat for TF2 and all text on Fortress Forever mod under Crossover, but I'm glad to be rid of my bootcamp partition and I'm plunking down the cash for Crossover. I bought it for linux years ago before I got a Mac and I have to say, these guys are really committed to continuous product improvement.
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thetinguy said 2:27AM on 12-18-2007
you idiot. Your macbook has the shitty GMA 950. Very few modern games will run on it because it is an integrated video solution without it's own vram.
John said 11:20PM on 10-04-2007
god that video was fucking lame.
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timgollin said 11:59PM on 10-04-2007
Used to use Parallels . . .CrossOver is much slicker, works great, doesn't require a Windows license - that's the best part - and integrates much better into Mac OS-X. Also . . . really well-supported, may not work with every weird app out there but it gets the job done. If you're like me and basically just running MS-Office, it works perfectly and is much easier to use than Parallels
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Stef said 4:20AM on 10-05-2007
Hmmm..... Probably done something wrong, but tried to install CrossOver to run Microsoft Access, but a) first CrossOver gets somewhat blocked when installing some fonts, and b) after forcing the continuation of the installation, which it does, and installs Access, then Access run once, before craching and doesn't want to restart anymore...
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Michael Kingery said 4:33AM on 10-05-2007
as lame as this video may be, im installing the trial now... i have tf2 on my gaming pc... but my macbook pro is equal to it if not better... i just couldn't justify partitioning my hd for just a few games and all of windows :/
lets see how this goes!
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Angelo Ashmore said 6:02AM on 10-05-2007
Works quite well, except for the very long load times (and it definitely isn't my computer).
Bootcamp is much better for a Mac Pro though.
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Driftwood said 10:20AM on 10-05-2007
Thank god. I used to be obsessed with TFC, and this was my big regret for switching over to a mac recently...not being able to get my fix.
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Aron Trimble said 10:48AM on 10-05-2007
But will it blend?
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