CrossOver by CodeWeavers

“Crossover on my apple silicon mac works wonders.”

“Microsoft Office ran almost perfectly with CrossOver”

“It's exciting to pay Crossover to support half of the library Proton offers for free.”

“You can probably get it working on your Mac with a tiny bit of Crossover/Wine/GPTK tweaking.”

“the promise of Proton/Wine/Crossover is that -for user-mode stuff- it works at least as well as Microsoft Windows”

“Most of those are gonna work using Rosetta, crossover, and the game porting toolkit.”

“Crossover support is worse than Proton, so it will not be viable alternative in real gaming scenarios.”

“WINE via Crossover Linux has become very good”

“Skyrim runs well on my M2 mac mini through crossover and rosetta”

“Crossover has allowed me to 100% Spider-Man Remastered on a base M5 MacBook Pro.”

“Just knowing there's a folder called drive_c on my Mac is the stuff of nightmares.”

“Crossover works wonders. Currently playing Hogwarts Legacy from the Epic Store on my Macbook M4 Pro”

“I have a Windows game I can't run under CrossOver (aka Wine 11) or a VM, only because its anti-piracy layer doesn't accept those circumstances.”

“Crossover[1] is surprisingly good for this purpose if you game occasionally and don't need FPS-level responsiveness.”

“they don't have enough resources to keep all major Windows apps working well”

“I've been a happy customer on and off for about 20 years.”

“not always enough in terms of performance for many games compared to a Windows machine”

“CrossOver lets me play most single player games just fine on my M4 Pro”

“CrossOver ($ annual license fee) is not ideal compared to Steam on Windows or Steam/Proton on Linux.”

“For a while it was possible to get it working with Crossover, and then it broke again”

“they try a lot harder to integrate well with the system than equivalent freeware apps on Windows”

“Crossover maintained compatibility with 32-bit windows applications even after Catalina.”

“CrossOver (which is an improved version of Wine, guaranteed to work with certain commercial programs)”

“you've gotta run most PC games using CrossOver on Mac with significant performance implications”

“sold a polished version of Wine making a lot of Windows only enterprise software work on Linux”

“crossover didn't work most of the time, got stuff working under wineskin and let the license lapse”

“Some crossover games perform better than the native ports”

“it will hang indefinitely when you try to actually start a game”

“there are plenty of circumstances where Steam via Crossover is essentially unnoticable”

“I would imagine the experience would be pretty poor”

“About the same as Linux, if you use Crossover.”

“get garmin windows software to run on wine or linux crossover”

“I use crossover and/or Lutris on Linux in order to run most of my 90s Windows games”

“compatibility layers like Crossover/Wine are already great for gaming”

“the user experience with Crossover is that you have to manage the whole thing of installing Windows Steam in a Wine bottle”

“Credit to wine and cross over (?)for years and years of work as well”

“Crossover could play the game at nearly the same framerate as native”

“I don't think there's any issue to run any older game using Crossover or similar on a Mac.”

“With CrossOver there are a handful of games that work well, most don't.”

“Their builds favor stability over new and shiny compatibility/feature support.”