CrossOver (Semi) Support

acumen101 on 6/1/2008 at 20:10

Hello All,

It's been a while since I've been here (work, dating, the usual distractions). I got a MacBook Pro laptop a few months ago and been working like hell to get some good games installed on it (World of Warcraft had me severally distracted, unfortunately). Good news is that I found a handy little app called CrossOver that runs apps w/out booting Boot Camp. Bad news is that System Shock 2 won't install. I get an error that says "This product cannot be installed on Windows NT due to a Microsoft DirectX6.1(tm) limitation." I checked their web site and came up with nothing. Is there anyone who has any experience with running System Shock 2 with CrossOver? Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

acumen101

P.S. Happy New Year!

Nameless Voice on 6/1/2008 at 20:31

The answer is (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60930#xp2k) right here in the FAQ.

la0s on 6/1/2008 at 22:57

Please tell me if everything works, and how you did it. :)

acumen101 on 6/1/2008 at 23:17

Quote Posted by la0s

Please tell me if everything works, and how you did it. :)

Hey la0s,

I got it to install; I had to set up the bottle (Operating System "pseudo-emulation environment") to work under a Windows 98 environment. Despite the success of the install, System Shock 2 will not run. Since I couldn't get it to run, I thought it might need the patch. I was able to run the patch installer and got the latest SHTUP pack installed (Beta 6, I believe), but still no luck. I get no error messages so I have nothing to go on. Since I have to work tomorrow, I'll work on it next weekend.

Nameless Voice on 7/1/2008 at 20:47

I suggest trying to run (http://www.strangebedfellows.de/index.php?topic=387.0) ShockEd if you can; it generally gives much more specific error messages when it crashes, especially if you have the monolog enabled.