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I got this game installed fine but a few things still bug me; the first is that it's impossible to skip the opening cinematics, the keyboard goes totally irresponsive apart from apple-quit. This issue repeats itself when I try to configure the controls. The other problem, is that there's this cheat code, you have to press shift-4-f4 at the same time, and it doesn't work (the Dashboard, coded to f4, comes up.

Could anyone help me with these problems? The cheats code I can do without, but I'd really appreciate any help which tells me a way to not wait 5 minutes for the cinematics to end (what's more there is a cinematic at the beginning of each race).
Thanks, JW

I own the original CD but was unable to get through the installation of Episode 1 Racer without crashing. I found a torrent on Demonoid from a guy who got it perfectly working in Crossover Chromium (doesn't display cinematics, settings are customizable.

[b]I was wondering if it's possible through Crossover to run the game in windowed mode instead of fullscreen; some way to force it.

Also, the game displays dual mouse cursors which is annoying. Any way to literally remove the cursor file from Crossover?[/b]

MechMykl wrote:

I was wondering if it's possible through Crossover to run the game
in windowed mode instead of fullscreen; some way to force it.

You can use the Graphics tab of the winecfg control panel to enable emulation of a virtual desktop in a window.

Ken Thomases wrote:

MechMykl wrote:

I was wondering if it's possible through Crossover to
run the game in windowed mode instead of fullscreen; some way to
force it.

You can use the Graphics tab of the winecfg control panel to enable
emulation of a virtual desktop in a window.

Thanks for your quick reply. I enabled emulation of the virtual desktop, but on first load it opened fullscreen anyway, froze, and then on every load following crashed before it could open the bottle-- had to delete the Application Support folder entirely and reload to make it work. Was worth a shot, at least.

Um, that's not good. It's not always clear what you're referring to, though. There were a lot of "it"s in there. 😊

What froze, CrossOver or the game? What crashed?

I'm not entirely sure what the uploader did when they used a copy of Crossover Chromium to package the game; it has the bottle structure, but all references to Crossover have been mostly ripped out. I was able to find winecfg in the package through a file search and run it, but after enabling and applying virtual desktop the game would open in fullscreen and then freeze until I Cmd+Q'ed it. Every attempt to load the bottle after that failed in the first few seconds. If you're interested in the original dmg to recreate what I'm talking about, I could send you a link to it in my Dropbox.

I decided to try moving the Program Files\Episode 1 Racer folder into my original Crossover Games 8 Mac WinXP bottle to try your suggestion there and was able to get it working without an issue. Thanks for pointing me to this feature, throughout the process I learned quite a bit more about your excellent product! I'm still pretty interested in trying to remove the dual-mouse issue by deleting the .cur or .ani file, if that's possible?

Sorry for such an extensive reply, but I have one more question: since I didn't install the game into the bottle as one normally would, is there any way to either:
A) Set the specific application to run in virtual desktop mode (I don't want Steam or it's games to use that feature) or
B) Duplicate the bottle and have Ep 1 Racer run specifically in the duplicate that has the virtual desktop feature turned on.

Very much appreciate your time.

MechMykl wrote:

I'm still pretty interested in trying to remove the dual-mouse issue
by deleting the .cur or .ani file, if that's possible?

It may be possible. You can search through the bottle for such a file. However, I would guess that most programs would keep their cursor resources inside the executable. Or, they may even create the cursor from scratch at runtime.

MechMykl wrote:

since I didn't install the game into the bottle as one normally
would, is there any way to either:
A) Set the specific application to run in virtual desktop mode (I
don't want Steam or it's games to use that feature) or

No, the virtual desktop feature is bottle-wide. It doesn't work per-application.

MechMykl wrote:

B) Duplicate the bottle and have Ep 1 Racer run specifically in the
duplicate that has the virtual desktop feature turned on.

Yes, you can duplicate a bottle in the Manage Bottles window using the Add Duplicate button.