#CodeWeavers

[netscapenavigator-official]

I've gotten HITMAN: World of Assassination to work on macOS a total of two times, and both times I don't know what I did.

The current CrossOver bottle I have that successfully runs v.3.210.2 is essentially a glass house that I tip-toe around every time I use it because one breath in the wrong direction, and I feel like the entire thing will come crashing down.

I've tried installing the game in new bottles. Doesn't work. I've tired installing new versions of the game. Doesn't work.

The original version I ran in this bottle was v.3.180.x because that's the version provided in the DODI Repack. That version worked for some reason... but only in this specific bottle. Every other time I've tried installing it in a new bottle, the game was unplayable.

I tried upgrading from v.3.180.x to v.3.210.1, and that didn't work. The game was unplayable.

By then, the entire game was broken, so I almost gave up hope on getting HITMAN: WOA to work on macOS ever again. Then, for some reason, I upgraded it to v.3.210.2, and the it was still unplayable. I started tinkering, which caused me to open and close the game over and over again. It was unplayably laggy (just like every other time and situation) until one time it just wasn't; It started working.

So now HITMAN: World of Assassination v.3.210.2 runs perfectly on my M1 iMac, and I'm never touching this bottle again in my life. It will stay that way–perfectly immortalized for me to play until a CrossOver update, itself, manages to break it.

[lexiwinz]

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[radiokaos]

Fallout 4: A Post-Nuclear Game Review

[twickline]

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[joehills]

Sunk Cost Fallodyssey

I spent $2.72 buying Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game and was dismayed to discover that Codeweavers Crossover would only install, but not run the executable.

Unwilling to give up, I spent a few hours attempting different Crossover bottle tweaks before stumbling onto the existence of the Fallout: Community Edition project, a modern reimplementation of the game's engine with compatibility for modern computers.

At last, the game launched successfully, and I learned from the opening cinematic that war is transformative but static, and was allowed to access the character creation screen:

Since I don't know anything about Fallout, I decided to create a character based on Kaladin Stormblessed from the Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive novels. In Sanderson's story, Kaladin is an unlucky son of a small-town physician somehow trapped in a cycle of being beaten within an inch of death while everyone else around him is killed, losing whatever job he had at the time, and ending up with a new job that is somehow more dangerous.

I started by lowering my character's luck stat to the game's floor of 1 (Very Bad), then re-investing the spare points into maxing out his endurance at 10 (Heroic) and bumping up his agility, charisma, and intelligence a bit each. I took a point out of perception because Sanderson's Kaladin usually needs obvious things explained to him.

For his three Tag Skills, I selected Melee Weapons, First Aid, and Doctor since Sanderson's Kaladin had training both as a spearman and as a physician.

For the first of his two optional traits, I selected Good Natured, which dropped his combat skills but boosted his First Aid, Doctor, Speech, and Barter abilities. My other choice here was Jinxed, which causes both the character and everyone around them to roll critical failures more often.

I started the game and died a dozen times to random encounters in the wastes. I was still having fun, but admit that I was growing a bit discouraged when I finally found my first actual spear on a random corpse giant molerats were dining on family-style.

Since grabbing the spear and fleeing those molerats, things have been looking up! I hit level two and have reached Vault 15 with far fewer deaths. The vault itself seems to be in poor repair, but without a rope to drop down the elevator shaft, I may need to continue my adventure elsewhere...

[echoweaver]

So, I played the Riffins for the first time since I dunno. The first serious time on the new computer, definitely.

I have a bunch posts worth of screenshot backlog for all of my saves, I think, so in theory I could start posting again now. It's really just a matter of doing it.

What follows is some geeking that may interest nobody, but this is just how I roll.

The first silly thing is that I now have screenshots in 16:10 aspect ratio. On my old computer, I ran Windows at a low resolution partly for performance and partly because I could keep the 4:3 aspect ratio, i.e. a much narrower display for the same height. My reasoning is that when you post pics, either on Wordpress or here, the width of the image determines the size you see. A wider aspect ratio gets sized down to the width of the dashboard you're looking at, and everything is smaller. In my current setup. I pretty much have to run at a higher screen resolution, and it looks awfully nice honestly. Sims 3 doesn't have any 4:3 aspect ratio options for modern computer resolutions. I may see if I can hack it in the options file. If I can't, it'll be reeeealy obvious when I move on to the new gameplay 🤷‍♀️.

For technical nerds, if in fact there are any reading this, I'm experimenting with playing the game on Codeweavers Crossover, a distribution of wine, which in turn is an implementation of Windows API for Mac users. I have traditionally played the game on a Windows virtual machine in Parallels. Running an entire second operating system in order to play one game is a bit much, but you do what you can do. I have messed around in Mac 64-bit, and it does really super smoothly for a new game, but it doesn't support core mods (no ErrorTrap or UntranslatedKey), and existing saves (at least modded ones) have not for me without crashing.

I tried Sims with Crossover on my old Intel Mac (man that thing was so top-of-the-line six years ago), and it ran delightfully fast and crashed within 10 minutes. Crossover has done a lot of updates to its 32-bit support since then, but only for the newer Mac architecture. Now that I have one of these fancy Apple Silicon doohickies, I tried again. The play was not as dizzyingly fast as it was on Intel, with the advantage that it played smoothly with all mods for an entire session of about 1.5 hours. Sooooo.... maybe this will work? I don't want to jinx it. I do have Parallels+Windows to run some other stuff if this doesn't cut it.

I'm not even going to try Reshade. It's too exciting that this no-Windows approach might actually work at all. Plus with the higher resolution and the lack of Windows, the game just looks better to me anyway.

I haven't tried to play the Samples yet with all their weird skintones and custom everything. The decades history challenge might even be worse in that regard. The Riffins at least run in an EA world. We. Shall. See.

[linuxlife]

Linux Life Episode 88

Hello people and welcome to my ongoing waffle about my ongoing journey in the world of Linux.

Is 2025 the Year of the Linux Desktop?

Many will argue this is definitely a much higher chance than it ever has been. Reason being people are getting tired of been spied on by Windows 11 and Microsoft are ending support for Windows 10. Many find Apple too expensive and stuck in a walled garden environment.

Also since the launch of the Steam Deck many Windows users can play literally thousands of Windows Games due to Valve working with CodeWeavers to create Proton which works in conjunction with Wine and projects such as DXVK.

This admittedly has put the overall desktop uptake to 4% of the worldwide market share. I know that doesn’t sound much but when you find out Apple only has 15-20% of the market share it puts things into perspective.

We have had recent adoptees such as Pewdiepie and others in the YouTube community.

While I can’t imagine the percentage getting about 5-6% at best which would be significant. I still can’t imagine it getting much more than that.

Reasons are numerous but I shall go through the most obvious ones...

Windows 10 is at the end of life in October 2025...

This is indeed true for most Windows 10 the updates end but I’m sure if you are a major Enterprise Contractor who still uses Windows 10 as long as you continue to pay appropriately for support it will continue.

Also if you are still on Windows 10 rather than 11 its obvious there is something about the system you like. Most likely you are fully aware of the quirks and know what will or won’t cause harm.

If this is the case then I doubt you have any reason to move anywhere, especially something which is unknown like Linux. You will most likely continue to live with Windows 10 regardless of security issues unless it gets to the point is dangerous to do so and then you will reluctantly upgrade to Windows 11 if you must.

(Insert Adobe Product here) doesn’t have a Linux version...

Yes this is one of the most common reasons why many won’t make the switch. Obviously Adobe is the industry standard and they have a big commanding grip on the creative industry.

However people are getting fed up of the subscription costs and the gotchas of early leaving of the yearly contract surcharge.

Linux does has alternatives to most Adobe products and most of them are free. However relearning an entire new workflow and how to be efficient takes a large amount of time. Time is money and many just don’t have the time or the inclination to learn software which may not have all the features you want or need.

Linux software is forever updating so if you are missing certain features, someone may implement them. However equally they may never do so and you have to figure how to do it their way.

Sadly Adobe has too large of a foothold upon the commercial and creative scene, many would probably switch to Mac OS as Adobe support them.

Adobe has asked the community if they would like a Linux version of their products. However they admit the number of people who would is such a small number of individuals it really isn’t worth the effort.

Modern game X doesn’t work due to Anti Cheat...

Well several new games rely on things like Punkbuster which is a kernel level cheat monitor but the issue is Linux really tries to avoid running at kernel or superuser level for too long as it is very risky to long term security.

That’s not to say that all anti-cheat systems can not be implemented indeed several have been and this is how the likes of the Steam Deck has increased in followers in the last few years.

Valve and CodeWeavers working together on Proton has allowed several thousand games to fully playable via Linux. However the heavy hitters such as Call of Duty and it’s ilk which have a large base and hence a lot of potential aimbots etc. They have heavy cheat security and this is where the issue lies.

I’m sure there is a way that can implement kernel level anti cheat but on the basis of it being proprietary, several Linux users will complain or refuse to do so.

Unfortunately I am not a major game player and I have sat and played Path of Exile, Terraria, Starbound and a few others. Yes some have Linux native binaries but several have not.

So I am probably not the right person to comment on this. Some tests have found Proton will sometimes run games faster on Linux than Windows but these I believe are rare.

If you are a hardcore gamer who has a £1000 graphics card and have a gaming mouse and keyboard. You couldn’t give a flying fig about Linux as you need to get another 2FPS out our system by overclocking and pwning another noob.

PewdiePie now runs Linux, he made a video...

If I had a pound for every video that was titled I tried Linux for 30 days or something along those lines. I would have a pretty decent chunk of change.

They all start the same... I loaded Mint on Day 1, it worked. Day 7 I uninstalled Mint and moved to Arch Linux because I’m a masochist. Fought with it for over a week but eventually got it running. Day 17 chose to use Hyprland and then complain you don’t know what you are doing. Day 20 quit in frustration and return to Windows.

Which is the equivalent of learning to drive starting with an Automatic Ford Fiesta, next week driving an Automatic Audi TT and then moving to a Manual Bugatti Veyron in the span of a month.

Yes it’s possible but it’s not the optimal way to learn.

Now Pewdiepie has indeed made quite a competent video regarding Linux and he has obviously sat and read various manuals and forums because he has managed to achieve quite a technical ability in Linux. Learning how Hyprland works and optimizing it or ricing it as it is known is not the easiest in the world.

Even some regular Linux users don’t go that far down the rabbit hole. Some never will.

As noble as that is and it is encouraging that some are willing to dive slightly deeper than the initial surface and learn to do things properly rather than jump stages. He is a minority.

Also PewdiePie (Felix) isn’t as relevant as he used to be ten years ago. He may still have a large sub count but his heyday is well behind him.

I’m sure in this world of attention deficit people on Tik Tok haven’t got the first clue who the hell Felix even is at this point.

Toxicity in the Linux community...

All communities have some level of toxicity no matter which OS or any hardware/ software you use so I don’t believe it’s exclusive. Sure some Linux users can be abrupt but the majority of user forums will have a large number that are willing to help, a small number of elitists and a smattering of trolls.

That’s just the internet folks.

If this is your only excuse then try distro specific forums rather than major Linux places like StackExchange where they may be more hostile.

That's Enough for now....so until next time take care.

[techinsightnow]

Teen coder shuts down open source Mac app Whisky, citing harm to paid apps

A tipped-cap moment The center of Whisky’s homepage. The page now carries a persistent notice that “Whisky is no longer actively maintained. Apps and games may break at any time.” Credit: Whisky The center of Whisky’s homepage. The page now carries a persistent notice that “Whisky is no longer actively maintained. Apps and games may break at any time.” Credit: Whisky CodeWeavers’ CEO wrote…

[davidcarlton]

That is where CrossOver and CodeWeavers come in. Without CodeWeavers there would be no Wine on Mac. There would be no GPTK. Hell, even Rosetta would likely be more restricted as many of the extensions added in recent months were only added due to pressure from Mac gamers. The revenue from CrossOver is what keeps Wine on Mac alive. By contrast, Whisky is based on CrossOver, but we don't produce any bespoke fixes. I, quite frankly, do not have the requisite skills or time to do so. As a result, the amount that Whisky as a whole contributes to Wine is practically zero. This is not a fair trade, and continuing this parasitic relationship could easily harm CrossOver's continued profitability and the existence of Wine on Mac as a whole. TLDR; Whisky harms Wine on Mac.

Maintenance Notice - Whisky Documentation

Huh, wow.

[hackernewsrobot]

CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers to Work on Wine and Valve's Proton

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CodeWeavers-Hiring-2025

[netscapenavigator-official]

Currently installing The Sims 4 on a 2011 MacBook Pro 15-inch running Zorin OS (Linux) via CrossOver (Wine). I can’t wait to see how horribly this turns out.

[lexiwinz]

This is a Windows emulator to run Microsoft Windows Games and applications on Mac and Linux. Use my brand new #coupon  for a 20% discount on CodeWeavers CrossOver #Mac

✅ Full Version

✅ Special Renewing Pricing

✅ Email & Phone support for 12 months

✅ Upgrade & bug fixes for 12 months

https://www.codeweavers.com/store?ad=64;deal=ALEXA25

[radiokaos]

My newest entry at my blog at Radio Kaos. This guide is for getting Final Fantasy VIII working using Codeweavers Crossover Porting Software.

[twickline]

CrossOver 24.0.2 release

CodeWeavers recently released CrossOver 24.0.2 for Mac and Linux. Here are the changes sense CrossOver 24.0.0 was released.

CrossOver Changelog :

24.0.2 CrossOver - April 29, 2024 Bug fix for Linux: Fix for password prompt on ChromeOS.

24.0.1 CrossOver - March 21, 2024 Bug fixes for macOS: Fix for latest Diablo IV update. Add support for Tomb Raider I-III Remastered.

[dkplayer]

CrossOver 24 выпущен с Wine 9.0

Компания CodeWeavers объявила о выпуске CrossOver 24, своего приложения для управления играми и приложениями, разработанными для Windows, установленными с помощью Wine на Linux и macOS. CodeWeavers поддерживает разработку Wine, а также сотрудничает с Valve по Proton!

https://www.gamebuntu.ru/news/crossover-24-vypuschen-s-wine-9-0/