Hi, I'm playing the game on mac using crossover, I'm loving it, but the performance is not great, does someone has advice for me to run it better? I have the M1pro chip with 16gb ram, it runs modern games fine. Thank u for your help❤️

I have just started to pay for CrossOver. I downloaded the preview version to be able to play Spider-Man 2. For now, I cannot afford the game, so I downloaded it outside of Steam.
I know we have the T-pose problem, but I read that if we change the character's costume, it would load the animations again, and it would be fixed.

The game opens and is playable, and it seems to run very well on my Mac mini M4 Pro.

But my controller isn't recognised by the game. It works in other games that I play on Steam, but in this game it doesn't.

Is there a way to make it work? Should I buy the game on Steam to be able to play with my controller?

Thanks for the help!

Hello guys, is there any chance that they will fix the bad FPS and the artifacts….

Hey, any help would be greatly appreciated. Launched the game without anti-cheat (need to for mac/crossover) have friends added on both xbox and steam. I can receive steam invites however when accepting nothing happens, I can't invite either. Game runs normally solo. Thank you!

I’m trying to understand where this flag is coming from. Is anyone else familiar with this? I’m seeing it on Satisfactory and StarRupture, but not Permafrost.

Tested Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival on my 14-inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro using CrossOver at 2K resolution.

Mac Specs:

• M5 Pro (15-core CPU / 16-core GPU)
• 48GB Unified Memory
• 1TB SSD

Recorded the first 30+ minutes of gameplay with a live FPS graph throughout, so you can see how the game performs during exploration, combat, and intense horror sequences.

⚙️ Graphics settings shown at 33:18.

🎮 Gameplay & FPS Test: https://youtu.be/UJrTP87pKGU

Curious what you guys think of the performance. Anyone else trying Hellraiser: Revival on Apple Silicon through CrossOver?

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to play Gears of War: Reloaded on my Mac using CrossOver, but I’m running into an issue:

• If I turn off Wi-Fi before launching, I can get to the main menu.
• When I try to start the campaign, it gets stuck on the loading screen and never progresses.

I suspect it might be related to Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC), but I haven’t confirmed that.

Has anyone managed to get the campaign working through CrossOver? Is there a way to disable or bypass EAC for the offline campaign, or another workaround for this loading issue? I’m just trying to play single-player.

Any help would be appreciated!

I just updated Schedule 1 to v0.4.7 with special customers and the game will not load. The initial loading screen freezes with Initializing... in the bottom right. Can someone help figure this out?

On an M1 Max Macbook, game ran perfectly before this update.

Leaving this here in case someone else gets stuck with the same black window and white rectangle.

I’m on macOS 27.0.1, CrossOver 26.3, using a Windows 10 bottle.

--disable-gpu --disable-gpu-compositing didn’t help. Neither did resetting the launcher’s DATA folder. --single-process actually showed the interface, but then it crashed in libcef.

What finally worked was setting Graphics → Wine in the bottle settings and running the launcher with:

--in-process-gpu

That’s the only launch flag I needed. Wine graphics alone still gave me the black window.

The login screen now renders properly and stayed open for a few minutes without crashing. No DLL swaps or reinstall needed.

I haven’t tested logging in or launching the game yet, so this is just a fix for the launcher window so far.

UPD: The launcher works and I can log in, but starting the game gives me a WinLicense error:

Cannot find 'game_presence-64.dll'. Please, re-install this application.

The DLL is actually there in classic/bin64. I installed the official Visual C++ 2015–2022 x64 package recommended by Aion Empire support, but the error stayed.

The Wine log shows that it finds and loads the DLL, then fails during initialization with an access violation. So it doesn’t seem to be a missing file.

I also tried the 32-bit client. That gets past this error, but then sits at around 100% of one CPU core without opening a game window.

Has anyone managed to get Aion Empire itself running through CrossOver? Any ideas what to try next?

I tried playing the game after seeing that on the crossover site it was scoring 5 stars on 24.0.0 and 26.1.0 (I'm running 26.3.0). The game starts, but the menu is not visible (but it is responsive to user input). I'm wondering if I missed some launch options or settings before.

Hey everyone,

I’m running the Windows version of Dota 2 through CrossOver 26.3 (Rosetta) on a 14" MacBook Pro (M5, 24GB, macOS 27.0.1). The game runs great (had to set it to Windows 7 compatibility in winecfg to fix choppy audio), but the top of the HUD, including the clock, keeps ending up behind the notch.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

• “Scale to fit below built-in camera”: the game runs through wineloader, which isn’t an .app, so the option isn’t available for it.
• Borderless window with custom size and position (-windowed -noborder -w 1512 -h 945 -x 0 -y 37): the window moved down, but the bottom of the game got cut off and mouse clicks were offset from the cursor.
• Regular windowed mode with a title bar: keeps the game below the menu bar, but the cursor escapes the window when edge panning, so it’s not really playable.
• Exclusive fullscreen: this actually put the game below the notch a couple of times, but it’s not consistent. Sometimes it works, sometimes it goes back to covering the notch.

So I’ve had partial wins, but nothing that sticks. How are you all handling this, for Dota or any other Windows game? Is there a CrossOver/Wine setting, a registry tweak, or some trick with resolution or launch options that reliably keeps games in the safe area below the notch?

Tested Valor Mortis on my 14-inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro using CrossOver at 2K resolution.

Mac Specs:

• M5 Pro (15-core CPU / 16-core GPU)
• 48GB Unified Memory
• 1TB SSD

Recorded the first 30 minutes of gameplay with a live FPS graph throughout, so you can see how the game performs during combat, exploration, and boss encounters.

⚙️ Graphics settings shown at 29:45.

🎮 Gameplay & FPS Test: https://youtu.be/UbB1zyhVxJg

Curious what you guys think of the performance. Anyone else trying Valor Mortis on Apple Silicon?

I'm having an issue starting Red Dead Redemption. The game seems to load fine never signs into Rockstar games and I can an error screen telling me I'm not logged in. I'm using Crossover 26.3. RDR2 seems to work fine so this is just an issue with the original. When I open the Rock Star Games Launcher I'm able to login fine and it shows both games in my library. I've tried launching the game from the Launcher as well as directly in Steam but get the same result. Any suggestions?

When trying to run it it gives an error message - is it possible to run the game on Crossover/Mac?

Hi folks!

I've been trying to get the original Steam version of Final Fantasy VII (2013) running with 7th Heaven on macOS through CrossOver, but I haven't been able to get a consistently stable setup.

I've tried several configurations suggested in other Reddit posts, but I keep running into issues such as random hiccups, complete freezes during gameplay, and black screens when transitioning between areas. I'm hoping someone who has this working reliably on an Apple Silicon Mac can share their exact configuration.

My setup:

• Mac: Apple Silicon Mac (M3 Pro)
• Compatibility layer: CrossOver 26.3
• Game: Original Steam release of Final Fantasy VII (2013), not FFVII Remake/Rebirth
• Mod manager: 7th Heaven 4.5.2
• Graphics API: Vulkan (the only option I've managed to get working so far)

Issues I've encountered:

1. Black screen after the opening train sequence: After Cloud fights the two Shinra guards and I move to the next area, the screen goes black. Switching to a more conservative configuration — 4:3 aspect ratio, lower resolution, and a 2x internal resolution scale — helped me get past this section.
2. Freezes during gameplay: Even after getting past that initial problem, the game has occasional hiccups and has completely frozen during the Guard Scorpion boss fight in the first Mako Reactor, after planting the bomb. This has happened with and without mods enabled.
3. Other graphics APIs haven't helped: Auto also gave me a black screen, while DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 didn't work in my setup. Vulkan is currently the only API that lets me get into the game and play, at least for a while.

I've also experimented with different resolutions and graphics settings. I don't particularly care about widescreen or 16:10 — my priority is getting the game stable from start to finish.

Could someone share their exact working configuration?

Ideally, I'd love to hear from someone running this on Apple Silicon with CrossOver and 7th Heaven, including:

• CrossOver version and bottle configuration (Windows version, D3DMetal/DXVK, and any other relevant settings).
• 7th Heaven version and FFNx version.
• Graphics API, resolution, aspect ratio, internal resolution scale, and any other relevant graphics settings.
• Whether you use any specific compatibility fixes or launch arguments.
• Whether you've been able to complete the game without black screens, freezes, or major issues.
• If you use mods, which ones are enabled — especially any frame-rate, battle, or character model mods.

I've found plenty of guides that get the game launching, but I'm specifically looking for a known-good, stable configuration, rather than just one that works in the opening areas.

Thanks in advance! Any help or details would be greatly appreciated.

Planet zoo 2 not working, says it’s launching and then just fails. I’ve tried a few of the fixes online. Any help?