This process is quick and creates a new “Windows” for your game. Give it a name and choose “winxp” in “New bottle type”. In Crossover menu go to Configure/Manage Bottles. Drag the Crossover Games icon to the Applications folder. A new disk unit will be created in Finder. The 7.2 version have a bug that prevents the game to run), open the DMG file. 1 – Installing Crossover GamesĪfter download Crossover (in this test we’re using the 7.1 version. There’s a excellent support forum and you can always try Crossover before buy. Otherwise, Codeweavers, Crossover Games makers, offers support to run your game or you’ll get your money back. Support?īefore start let’s make thing clear: neither Stem or Valve (Counter Strike:Source makers) offer support for this steps. Check the actual pricing with the vendors. Note: the prices listed here is from the published date. 6,5 GB free HD space, to install the game.Good internet connection to download the game.This tutorial may also work for other Steam games. If you already own the Windows game and already have a Steam account you don’t need to pay again. Steam (free, needed to run Counter Strike:Source).Credit Card that can buy in USA, to buy the licenses.Wine is free, but we’ll use a paid implementation of it here, Crossover Games for some reasons: have garanted support from developers, the separated implementations are merged to Wine cooperating to original project, implement DirectX (very important for games) and it’s easy to use and install. It can run applications natively, without virtual machine or another boot partition. Wine is an OpenSource project that can run Windows software in other platform, but Wine Is Not an Emulator. The big secret for this “trick” work is Wine, but in a different flavor (and it does it very well). But if you could run Windows games natively in MacOS? Some install Windows in another HD partition, via Bootcamp as alternative. Apple’s website and the Video Game Live guys can prove this. One thing that PC users keep making Mac users mad is the availability of games for Mac OS native platform. Let’s left behind all the classic “I’m a Mac and I’m a PC” Apple ads. Update: Valve released a Mac native version.
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