Hi. I just downloaded Crossover for mac trial version 13.2 (13.2.0.27771) to see wether this app really works or not. I am trying to install SimCity 4 Deluxe using crossover with the Retail disc version. However i am unable to install it properly and get the following error when trying to install it :
The ‘Creating the SC4DELUXE bottle’ task failed.
cxbottle:error: unable to create the 'SC4DELUXE' bottle in '/Volumes/My Passport/Movies/Rizqi/Games/Installed/CrossOver Data/Bottles/SC4DELUXE'
Continuing with the install may produce unpredictable results.
Then I choose cancel installation.
I have MacBook Air 11" mid-2013 running OSX 10.9.5. I ran the following command in terminal to change my installation directory
The installation directory is in 2TB WD My Passport external hard drive with Windows NT Filesystem Format and uses Paragon NTFS to be able to read and write the hard drive.
What happens if you try to create a bottle on a native (to OS X)
filesystem?
It works as intended. i am able to play the game normally if i installed it there but due to my internal SSD near full, i need to install it in my external hard drive.
You may want to resize the NTFS partition on that external drive and
then create a HFS+ partition for your bottles.
Do i need to format the drive first? if yes it is not possible because the hard drive contain 800 GB of data and i don't have any where to back up this data 😥
Also, I move the game from the original folder to the external hard drive, and when i tried to run the game, i get "There is no Windows program configured to open this type of file" with only one option "Ok". and then i get this
Command results
The command /Volumes/My Passport/Movies/Rizqi/Games/Installed/CrossOver Data/Bottles/SimCity 4/drive_c/Program Files/Maxis/SimCity 4 Deluxe/Apps/SimCity 4.exe returned 1.
It talks about resizing bootcamp partitions, I know... but some of the utilities listed there can be used. GParted (as mentioned previously) and iPartition. I did try to use a GParted Live CD on a Mac a while ago and I could not make it boot but YMMV.
It's probably the way the the NTFS driver is implemented on both OS X and Linux systems. I've seen some Linux users in the past trying to make CrossOver run a game they had on their NTFS partition. It usually does not work. If the filesystem does not support certain features that wine makes use of, then it won't work well or at all.
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