[Wine] Steam interface on OSX 10.6.1

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 26 21:36:46 CDT 2009


doh123 wrote:
> ArcadiumNL wrote:
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>> I don't understand it either, although i have the feeling i'm missing some libraries because I cannot seem to run my games in Fullscreen. The color problem does not appear in Crossover, I downloaded a trial to check if the problem exists there but that's not the case. 
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> X!!.app doesn't run full screen well.  You can go into its options and set it up to run a full screen mode, then run your game.. but your game still wont be able to change resolution.  This is mainly because Xquartz on Mac OS X sucks BADLY.... usually best to run in a virtual desktop.
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> Crossover does their own build of X11 integrated into Crossover... it doesn't use the X11 on your system.  Their's works fantastic for Wine....
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> Since Codeweavers will not release their X11 outside of their Crossover product, everyone is stuck with Xquartz/X11.app... which makes it a MAJOR benefit to use Crossover over standard Wine on Mac OS X.
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This is very true.  However, the XQuartz folks have this on the todo
list and the major problem is how to display lower resolutions like
640x480 on a non-4x3 screen (most 'modern' Macs are 16x9).

The X11 code by CodeWeavers is copywrited so that they have exclusive
use of the code and it fixes many problems with X11.app and XQuartz
although the XQuartz project is catching up to them.  Even with their
fixes, you cannot run X11 reliably in full screen mode.

James McKenzie





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