..well, that was reasonably uneventful.. on this linux box,
I could've used the crosstie 'as is' and expected the same
result. It is directx( it installs (not xna), and the only
real departure from the crosstie was me choosing to set
emulated virtual desktop on @ 1024x768 for installation, the
game runs fine fullscreen at this rig's native 1680x1050..
..the downloader/updater can get all braindead if your inet
connection breaks during download ; it keeps downloading the
same file over and over again. If something like that happens,
just quit it and restart it - it will start downloading the
files properly again.. it takes some time ; the current patch
set (from the beta dist the crosstie uses) is 39 files..
.. the updater itself and the associated processing of the
39 patches takes an inordinate amount of time - expect 10minutes
or more of waiting while this happens..
..eventually I got to the logon screen, entered my EA/Origin
account details, click on 'play demo' and it seems to run just
great (limited amount of gameplay but it was doing everything
'properly') -- little doubt, if I purchased some gametime and
entered the key into the window provided, that'd work as well.
Certainly clicking on the 'buy now' doodad thru me to my system
web-browser & and opportunity to buy game..
.. I think I'll make a cxarchive of that, and throw it on the
iMac while deb6 is still running there (see how tolerant the
game is to Ati GPU/drivers), then warmboot the thing into macos
10.7.1 and see what happens in appleland. ;)
..btw, one thing that has me a tad confused here, is why on earth
do you have a disc release of this title? (or rather, why would
one use such?) I mean .. if I wanted to buy/play this title, on
linux, using crossover-games, I was doing that 10 minutes ago. As
it is an online game, and patches are constantly forthcoming, the
content of the game has to be at the latest/all-the-same patchlevel
for online play to work .. so even if you do install from disc,
it's going to go and download/update itself to 'now' anyway..
..I'll get back here in a bit after I see what the iMac/macos does,
but right now the crosstie is 'good' as-is on the linux front.. and
really doesn't need any altering..