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Crossover not letting me run Oblivion.
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Hey, I just found out about the Crossover program, and I have to say, it's a piece of magic. I love it. However, I installed Oblivion on my computer, and when I open it up, I get the mini menu, where I press "Play", and then it goes fullscreen, the screen goes black, the mouse appears, and then that's where it stays. The screen just remains black, and I have to force quit.
What's the problem? Isn't this supposed to work?
Thanks.
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If it doesn't work in Crossover try bootcamp, crossover doesn't run everything by any means.
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Originally Posted by moonmonkey 
If it doesn't work in Crossover try bootcamp, crossover doesn't run everything by any means.
Bootcamp is flawless. Bootcamp runs Windows natively, on the mac. Anything that would work in windows on a PC, works in bootcamp.
However, I was hoping to be able to run Oblivion within OS X, without having to reboot into windows....
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Originally Posted by macgeek2005
Bootcamp is flawless. Bootcamp runs Windows natively, on the mac. Anything that would work in windows on a PC, works in bootcamp.
Yes, that's my point.
Originally Posted by macgeek2005
However, I was hoping to be able to run Oblivion within OS X, without having to reboot into windows....
Try Parallels then, its got more chance than Crossover.
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Shall we take this to the Alternative OS forum, where it belongs?
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Originally Posted by macgeek2005
Hey, I just found out about the Crossover program, and I have to say, it's a piece of magic. I love it. However, I installed Oblivion on my computer, and when I open it up, I get the mini menu, where I press "Play", and then it goes fullscreen, the screen goes black, the mouse appears, and then that's where it stays. The screen just remains black, and I have to force quit.
What's the problem? Isn't this supposed to work?
Thanks.
Try this site for Crossover apps compatibility :
CodeWeavers - Compatibility
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Originally Posted by ghporter
Shall we take this to the Alternative OS forum, where it belongs?
Um, this is that forum ghporter.
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Originally Posted by hldan
Um, this is that forum ghporter.
NOW it is.  I moved it. 
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Originally Posted by ghporter
NOW it is. I moved it.
How convenient.
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Originally Posted by moonmonkey
Try Parallels then, its got more chance than Crossover.
IMO Crossover is much better for games.
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Originally Posted by goMac
IMO Crossover is much better for games.
Likely because Crossover (and Xen with XT or Pacifica hardware) will use the native video card, whereas VMWare/Parallels won't. I thought I read that either VMWare or Parallels was working on full virtualization, but I haven't heard anything about a release date for this feature.
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Originally Posted by besson3c
Likely because Crossover (and Xen with XT or Pacifica hardware) will use the native video card, whereas VMWare/Parallels won't. I thought I read that either VMWare or Parallels was working on full virtualization, but I haven't heard anything about a release date for this feature.
It will be difficult because I don't think the video card can be directly talked to by two OS's at the same time. I think a virtualizer has to talk to the graphics card via the native OS drivers. We'll see though.
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Originally Posted by goMac
It will be difficult because I don't think the video card can be directly talked to by two OS's at the same time. I think a virtualizer has to talk to the graphics card via the native OS drivers. We'll see though.
That's what the Xen hyperviser mediates. Some hardware makers would like a standard hyperviser to emerge so that this can be built into hardware.
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