Tuesday 1 September 2009

Games that worked/didn't work on CrossOver 8.0

Here's a short and sweet list of games I could/couldn't get working with CrossOver 8.0:

Things that work:

  • Lego Racers 2
    • Worked perfectly with no hassles. Needs CD inside to play, but let CrossOver know that you don't want to install from the CD because it will ask you just as the game loads up if you're impatient like me.
  • Sonic R
    • Another fun-styled racing game. Pity it lacks depth in any degree. Worked well though, found the audio levels annoying and uneven but that might be the game as it's meant to be.
  • Command and Conquer 3
    • Refer to my post on getting it to work. Basically needs you to copy in a pre-existing profile as you can't start create one in game for some reason and you can't start the game without one.
Things that don't work:
  • Sitting Ducks
    • I remember getting this game cheap for $9 AUD at some store when it was still new. I played it on a friend's computer and it looked neat, installed it on my computer and it told me my graphics card did not support T&L shaders (this was maybe 3-5 years ago?). Apparently T&L shaders were these special things that made lighting and textures (thus T and L) look nice in games. Nowadays though such terminology is redundant - I know netbooks which handle shaders well. Anyway, it simply didn't install on CrossOver (which can utilise shaders fortunately). Maybe the disk was scratched too much?
  • Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
    • First game I had ever played that used cell shaders (which apparently are unique and different to T&L shaders). It was epic nonetheless to be playing a 3d game WITH cell shaders on a computer with an astounding 4mb Intel graphics chip. Didn't work on a computer with an Nvidia 128mb graphics card, unfortunately.
Things I would like to try:
  • Rayman 2. I tried installing this classic platformer but to no prevail. But this wasn't because it came up with an error, rather I just got bored waiting and had something more urgent needing attention. I'll letcha know what happens there. PROVIDED I don't get pre occupied reading Urusei Yatsura.
  • A PS2 emulator. Just any. I think there's only one, but I don't care as long as I can play something like Killzone or Sonic Unleashed on my mac mini. That'd be epic.

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