compatability on Catalina

[Tech198]

Whats best for compatibility for gaming under Catalina? (other than a vanilla PC):-

i have the majority of games bottled backup in .cxarchive (CrossWeavers/CrossOver), however some stubborn games like ''NFSIII Hot Pursuit" or "Money island" games usually have slow mouse response/jerky (probably full screen), or other.

Most games i believe would probably run better in windowed mode, but for the sake of compatibility, what is the best chance of getting older games working on which platform?

With exception to the the ones i have already most, are folders,, just copy, no install (I assumed these would work better than ones you install, but i was wrong)

Others like Indiana Jones suffer a "rendering error" on playing in WINE/Crossover, but otherwise work fine from Virtual machine. I set the same OS (Windows XP in this case) in the VM, but it make no difference,,

It also surprises me that games with fail in WINE due to rending issues have no problem in a VM with 'emulated hardware'

That always puzzled me. If it was an issue with graphics, then would have expected "less" in a virtual machine, not more.

 

[maflynn]

Boot camp,
Vms have serious performance issues
Wine/Crossover has compatibility issues, i.e., not much runs, so that leaves playing games in windows via bootcamp

 

[Tech198]

Ya i thought as much... Just one would think since all the ports are based on the same Wine code base anyway why would there is a large discrepancy between what runs, and what doesn't?

eg.. if all versions : Winebottler,CrossOver/ etc use version 5.0 why do some games wok on some, but not on others?

I would have thought due to the nature of wine, te front end doesn't make any different but just user experience..

for example,. In Wineskin/Winetricks (front end) for instance, i could use an older engine (mainly for older games, as my thinking is "newer versions of wine go for newer games (i.e less compatibility)," (correct me on that) which could be the difference between running 16-bit launcher game like Need for speed III Hot persuit in Wineskin on 1.7 engine, vs attempting to run it on version 5.x of Wine where it fails.

To me, Wine is wine.. underneath..

I was really wanting to try and avoid Bootcamp, because you have wine/ports.. yet i wondered WHY they worked better with non-native VM (ya, its Windows fully loaded, but ts till emulated) and yet the games run better than a native (should otherwise work better) version of Crossover.

I know Doom 3 is laggy is VM, but Curse of Monkey Island actually ran ok.. I was kind of looking for a balance.

 

[Plutonius]

but Curse of Monkey Island actually ran ok.

The MacOS Version of The Curse of Monkey Island is on Steam and people reported that it ran fine under Catalina.