Crossover games - COD4

[oren]

Hi all

Brand new to CrossOver.....
I am using Crossover games on Kubuntu 8.04. No part of my system has been customised in any way. It is literally "out of the box".

I will start by saying that I know that COD4 is not supported in Crossover but I am hoping that someone can share their success story with me so I can try and enjoy this game now that I have abandoned Windows, hopefully for good.

I have managed to install the game (minus the Punk Buster) and even managed to install Patches 1.6 and 1.7. I even managed to install the patch which takes away the need for inserting the DVD.
When I try to launch the game (single player) it seems to go through the motions, showing the splash screen and then blackens the screen for a few second. Then rather than starting the game I get my desktop back but at a lower resolution (1024 X 768).

Same happens when I try to launch the Multi Player.

So if anyone has an idea, I would love to hear from you.

Many thanks, for reading....

[cantab]

Re: Crossover games - COD4

Crossover is based on wine. A quick check of the AppDB at WineHQ reveals that Call Of Duty 4 should work under plain wine (the Steam version may not be so good however)

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...sion&iId=12804

and that with a patch you can even make PunkBuster work (whatever that is )

[oren]

Re: Crossover games - COD4

Thanks cantab... 8)

Will give it a go and see...