It should then launch in a windowed mode. Fire up GTA:SA from the Programs menu in the menubar, or from the exe in the finder wherever you installed it (Crossover keeps its files in ~/Applications/Crossover/, or ~/Library/Application Support/Crossover/). Now that GTA is installed, you can go ahead and play the damn thing. Crossover is pretty supportive when it comes to installing applications, and it should install like it does on Windows.

Now, I installed GTA: San Andreas from BootCamp and then opened it from there, but other Crossover beta testers have reported the installer is working. Remember that the lower the resolution, the faster your game usually runs.

I used the size 1024 x 576 for a widescreen window, but you can select whatever in there. Switch to the Graphics tab of the Windows-styled window, and tick the 'emulate a virtual desktop'. Once that is open, you can then go to configuring your 'virtual desktop', which will allow games to be played in windowed mode, and allows them to run properly on OSX. On the right hand side of the window there are a few options, Bottle, Applications, Control Panel and Advanced. Give it a few seconds, and then it'll be created. Call this bottle whatever you like, such as 'gaming', and change the type to 'winxp', or whatever suits the game you want to play. Go to the Configure menu, and select Manage bottles.įrom there, you can use the plus symbol to add a new bottle. Now that you've installed Crossover, you can go ahead and create your bottle. You can grab Crossover for Mac from here. This application by Codeweavers takes advantage of Wine, and allows Windows applications to be natively run on Mac OSX, inside 'bottles', like different mini-Windows-installations. Here's a screenshot of the end result:įirst off, you need the Crossover application.

San andreas mac os