Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars working on Crossover 8.0!

I feel accomplished. In a sad, "I've never been the first to achieve anything but now I've beaten someone!" way.


Allow me to explain. There is a problem (I'm not sure what it is, but it's a big one) when running Command & Conquer 3 on the latest version(s) of Crossover that make it so the keyboard does not work when starting the game. Important, because to start the game you first have to enter your name. And if you can't use the keyboard you can't enter your name so basically it means the game does not work.


HOWEVER this is NOT the case. Someone's probably figured this out already but if you already have a profile, then the game will continue to load without the whole unable-to-type-your-name hullabaloo. In fact by putting in your own profile from an already installed windows copy it works absolutely perfectly (except for me raising the Shader quality too high made this disappear).


This works for Crossover 8.0, not sure about other versions. Firstly, go to the windows computer/virtual machine that has Command & Conquer installed (and played/run at least once). Look in (forgive me if this is wrong):

c:\users\YOUR USER NAME\Application Data\Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars\

This folder may be hidden or otherwise invisible, so you may have to manually type in the address in Explorer. Copy a profile folder (if the person is called "Shirley" in-game, their profile folder will have the same name).

Then after that you need to hunt down:

Main Partition/Users/YOUR USER NAME/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/Name of the bottle which has CNC3 in it/drive_c/users/crossover/Application Data/Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars/

For me that'd be:

Macintosh HD/Users/Christian/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/Windows XP/drive_c/users/crossover/Application Data/Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars/

Simply copy your profile into that folder by means of networking, USB, Floppy disk etc and you'll be able to fire up CNC3 in Skirmish mode in no time. And if for some reason that doesn't work or you are missing the CNC3 folder in Application Data, just copy the entire Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars folder from the Windows PC's copy.

This ALSO works for the demo, so if you are thinking of buying the entire game but worried about whether it'll work on your Mac, just install the demo on a Windows machine, steal the settings folder for it and chuck it on your mac once the demo is on there. After all the windows copy is cheaper and still easily available (in Australia the mac version isn't even in stock and no longer being shipped).

I might put up a link later for my demo profile for anyone who needs help running the PC version on their Mac. It might only work on the demo though, so no guarantees for people with the full copy.

Here's a screenshot of my large army bravely traversing through a small tiberium field. Let's just say by the end of that push my army's numbers had been humbled/severely depleted due to contamination :)

Needless to say I want the full version now. That'll probably have to wait till after I get Pokémon Platinum.