Return of Reckoning

Installation Guide for Mac+Crossover users

If you're not a Mac user, follow this guide.

Before starting big thanks to user @Delegator who started the first mac Installation guide, this guide follows up his and improves it a bit according to current system for downloading the game and updates on Crossover side.

This is a Crossover only guide (latest known working version 25 https://www.codeweavers.com/preview, at the moment on 16/03/2026 CX26 IS NOT WORKING), bootcamp is not available for Apple Sillicon users (M1, M2, M3 etc), but if you have an intel MAC or AMD with Bootcamp you should use the main Windows OS installation on the previous link.

1 // Download latest game available (install-mac) and unzip it in your downloads folder.

2 // Open Crossover, click install, click now "install unlisted software in the top right of the screen" search the RoRInstaller.exe in your download folder and select it, click install in a new bottle, select Windows 10 64 bits

3 // Let the installer finish its process when it prompts a Directx 9 installer just cancel it, once finish unmark the "run client" and close it

4 // In Crossover click on install again and search for directx.
Select “Directx for Modern Games”, select your Bottle and click install.

5 // Select "Wine" as graphics option do not use DXVK or any other(not working with 32bits dx9), turn on MSYNC and High resolution mode Off

Client should start runnning and updating itself and you should be ok to go!

While ingame, press ESC, User setting, deactivated under general tab -> Show combat lightning on -> none
On the tab Chat Scroll limit 500 max would be 2000 if we really want to keep it.
Targeting tab-> Names Font - > Simple then toggle off many Overhead names and keep only the ones you consider most usefull for you.
Video tab-> Deactivate shader performance optimizations.
Video tab-> Customize -> SET GPU texture memory cache to max
Video tab -> Customize -> SET draw distance to near (or less than 75%)

Now going deeper into optimizing, in your RoR folder you have an user folder with a UserSettings.xml, in those settings these are my specs:

<Performance>
<perflevel level="custom1" />
<perfcustom1 drawDistance="0.52" texture_Cache="1.00" effects="medium" abilityEffects="all" animation="medium" shadows="low" specular="false" lightmaps="false" postProcess="false" grass="false" waterRef="false" waterWakes="false" />
<perfcustom2 drawDistance="0.85" texture_Cache="0.50" effects="low" abilityEffects="all"

This profile custom will suppress the shadows underneath all characters, looks odd but bring tremendous improvement, in my case I'm even seeing all the effects (you can disable that as well after trying the configuration)

if you want to tweak now crossover, go to the Bottle folder where the cxbottle.conf file is (one folder above your C:/ inside the bottle), edit it and add on the bottom part of the doc under [EnvironmentVariables]:

"WINEDEBUG" = "-all"
"WINE_DISABLE_WATCHDOG" = "1"
"WINE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE" = "1"
"WINED3D_STRICTCOMPLIANCE" = "0"
"MTL_SHADER_VALIDATION" = "0"
"STAGING_SHARED_MEMORY" = "1"
"MTL_DEBUG_LAYER" = "0"

Firstly thanks 4 guide mate.
İ have m1 8gb specs macbook air and this solution worked.
But i have alot of fps drops that cause i didnt like play.
Maybe i need to learn some specific settings about crossover.

Ah nice to see others trying too, I just tested on MBA m1 yesterday on PlayOnMac (free alternative to crossover) using Delegator's guide.

Tried first on 64 bit virtual drive, which didn't work and then on a fresh 32 bit drive, installed the two prompted extras and then DX9C download/install after and got in the game without any problems.

I had some hopes that performance would be good since it's suppose to be a decent cpu, but unfortunately it's just a slideshow with +24 people (fastest framerate, no mods, only name/title of target).

If anyone gets good performance please post how

BluIzLucky wrote: Sat Oct 08, 2022 10:46 pm Ah nice to see others trying too, I just tested on MBA m1 yesterday on PlayOnMac (free alternative to crossover) using Delegator's guide.

Tried first on 64 bit virtual drive, which didn't work and then on a fresh 32 bit drive, installed the two prompted extras and then DX9C download/install after and got in the game without any problems.

Never tried playonmac really so couldn't tell if its on par of Crossover or not, will have to try it. you are on MBA M1 how much ram?

edit - no longer found improvements adding further registry keywords -

Does anyone know how this solution compares performance-wise to creating a Windows partition and installing the game there?

Specialpatrol wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 12:36 pm Does anyone know how this solution compares performance-wise to creating a Windows partition and installing the game there?

If you have an Intel mac in order to use bootcamp I believe it should work better. Unfortunately Bootcamp is not an option for Apple Silicon macs.

Virtualizing using parallels should perform worse than Crossover.

gyps wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 2:01 pm

Specialpatrol wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 12:36 pm Does anyone know how this solution compares performance-wise to creating a Windows partition and installing the game there?

If you have an Intel mac in order to use bootcamp I believe it should work better. Unfortunately Bootcamp is not an option for Apple Silicon macs.

Virtualizing using parallels should perform worse than Crossover.

I have an i7 Imac and I am currently running the game through a bootcamp partition. But it would be nice to eliminate the bootcamp, if possible - so I've decided to try the free trial of Crossover to test it. I'm having a few issues, though.

So far, I've installed Crossover and followed your guide (creating a Win7-64bit bottle, installing .net 4 and directX and downloaded RoR via the link supplied). I had a to try a few times to get it to install .net 4, as it stalled both during download and installation.

However, I seem to be stuck at part 7 of your guide. I've followed it as described, yet when I click "Run" after the "Save as Launcher" bit, nothing really happens. The "Run Command" window greys out for a few seconds, as a blue progress-bar ping-pongs back and forth a few times - and then the window returns to normal.

I've tried to move the RoR-folder around, placing it in the drive-c root folder, in Program Files and in Program Files (x86) - going through the process of locating the rorlauncher.exe-file and clicking "Save Command as Launcher" every time - yet nothing seems to work. And when I double-click the RoRLauncher shortcut in Crossover it pops up and then closes itself immediately after.

I've also made sure that DXVK, CSMT, ESYNC and High Resolution are all disabled.

So what am I doing wrong?

I had to use the 32 bit bottle for PlayOnMac (which should be the same as CrossOver), it didn't seem to download the right stuff on 64 bit version.