Important Information These are community forums and not official technical support. If you need official support: Contact Us
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Back to Threads Reply to Thread
Hi, I have a game that only runs on windows. I have an iso as well as an exe file I believe. There are other files as well. They are all stored on an external hard drive, as I do not have enough space to hold them on my mac. I was wondering if there is any way to run this game through crossover?
Hi Marco,
i think the question is a little difficult to answer with the amount of informations you gave.
Regardless the situation that the game maybe needs the CD/ISO due to copy protection (then Crossover can not help you here) - i‘ll try to get on your question more generally.
It is possible to execute Applications within macOs on an external drive/storage? Yes.
MacOS applications are some sort of self container and can be moved but - applications may store data in specific folders on your mac.
Due to the nature of macos being some sort of unix you can use so called symlinks. That means:
You can move the specific folders to another position and on the original place you can create a symlink pointing to the new location of the folder.
I did that several times myself - generally it‘s working.
But - regarding your question - there may be much more questions like that. Maybe there are specific examples to do things like that somewhere. Would you like to tell which game you want to play?
Bye
Björn
Please Note: This Forum is for non-application specific questions relating to installation/configuration of CrossOver. All application-specific posts to this Forum will be moved to their appropriate Compatibility Center Forum.
CrossOver Forums: the place to discuss running Windows applications on Mac and Linux
