Is GTA IV compatible on Crossover games? The game is for Windows, but I want to run it on Mac OS X Leopard.
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GTA IV on Crossover
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I'm not sure if it will work under CrossOver. But just for the record GTA IV is an extreme resource hog. My PC with 2.66 C2D/5GB DDR2/9800 GTX had trouble running it. You better have an extremely powerful Mac to run it.
I have iMac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
The game was successfully installed, but the release date check can't be checked online (even though my internet is fine). It's stuck at 30% and after a while, it says it cannot perform release date check
.youre going to have to run it under bootcamp, or at least get a ciderized version.
and make sure you have a machine with specs better than the listed requirements.
crossovers only useful for apps that arent graphically intensive.
and as aaron said, gtaiv is a resource hog and i doubt a virtual envirnment (crossover) can provide you with smooth gameplay
and make sure you have a machine with specs better than the listed requirements.
crossovers only useful for apps that arent graphically intensive.
and as aaron said, gtaiv is a resource hog and i doubt a virtual envirnment (crossover) can provide you with smooth gameplay
There is no ciderized version of GTA IV (at least not that I know of). I also tried Windows XP on Parallels, but it does not meet several requirements (free disc space and video card, mainly) and I cannot launch Rockstar Games Social Club (problem with dotnetfx3).
My secondhand understanding of the PC GTA IV port is that it's not so much a general resource hog as a poor port of a console game that heavily relies on having 3 cores (since that's what the consoles are using). As a result, it runs very badly on anything less than a quad-core PC -- I don't think it's that your CPU or GPU is too slow, you just don't have enough cores.
Of course, this won't help the 90% of us Mac users without Mac Pros.
Where can I get those cores? Has anyone ever successfully installed their GTA IV game on Parallels Windows XP?
Urm... let's just say that you will not be able to run this game... especially using Parallels.
You might be able to get it running on Windows using Bootcamp at VERY low graphics settings... but that will depend on your graphics card as we don't really know which iMac you have.
Not a hope in hell. Parallels virtualizes a graphics card in software, many older games play horribly slowly on it let alone a modern one like GTA IV. If you already have a copy of XP then set it up under Bootcamp and try it that way.
I will try it, anyway. I have Intel Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard. I will write about how it went later . Boot camp - I can only buy it, not download it, and that sucks.
. Boot camp - I can only buy it, not download it, and that sucks.
^^what? Bootcamp comes with Leopard (Bootcamp assistant is in the Utilities folder). If you already have windows then just install it that way, don't waste your time trying something that absolutely will not work.
for the "dotnetfx3" error, just download microsoft .net framewrok version 3.5. But that is the least of your problems.
Yeah, I fixed it
. Now the main problem is dd3d50 error, which appears few minutes after I launch the game.
dd3D50 error means that GTA can't find a DirectX 9 compatible video card due to you running a virtualized 3D card rather then a real one. I'm also pretty sure Rockstar are running a DRM system on GTA 4 that can tell if it's running on a virtual machine and refuse to boot even if you could get around the other problems, even Rockstar have stated it won't run on Parallels.
Bootcamp shouldn't have expired, the one bundled with Leopard is a full version so maybe it's time for an OS X reinstall.
Bootcamp shouldn't have expired, the one bundled with Leopard is a full version so maybe it's time for an OS X reinstall.
You have a real one in your Mac but Parallels and VMWare fusion can't access it, hence they vitualize a 3D card using the CPU, the only way to get Windows to fully utalize your 3D card is with Bootcamp.
Oh and Crossover but as already said, they aren't compatible.
Oh and Crossover but as already said, they aren't compatible.
As was mentioned Boot Camp is installed in 10.5 Leopard. If you are running the beta then you must be using Tiger... Unless something very weird has happened.
Just buy an XBox 360 for £129 and forget about gaming on a Mac... It's more trouble than it's worth.
Just buy an XBox 360 for £129 and forget about gaming on a Mac... It's more trouble than it's worth.
Not exactly true -- Parallels and VMware both offer support for limited 3D acceleration, albeit not up to what you'd get in Bootcamp. Still, it's enough to play some fairly recent 3D games like Half-Life 2.
^^But they're not actually using the 3D card, they are simply virtualizing a Dx9 compatible video adapter hence the generally poor performance. AFAIK OS X won't let a virtualized OS have any direct access to the GPU.
They certainly are using the 3D card -- maybe not "directly", but somewhere along the line the GPU is definitely used. You're not going to be able to play a 3D game like Half-Life 2 on a CPU alone.