CrossOver Office is a commercial program that allows you to run popular Windows applications on a Linux or Mac system without the need for a Windows installation.
Announced the release of the new version of Crossover 22.1., which is a version that manages to correct various errors detected in the previous version, although It also includes some pretty good improvements, such as support for DirectX 10/11 32-bit games, improvements in the execution of some games as well as more than 400 updates of wined3d from Wine upstream and updated vkd3d to version 1.5.
For those readers who don't know CrossOver yet I can tell you that this is a commercial utility that allows you to run popular Windows applications on Unix systems (Linux or Mac) without the need for a Windows installation. It is a derivation of WINE with several patches added, and easier to use configuration tools.
Crossover is produced by CodeWeavers, which employs several WINE programmers and contributes code to the open source WINE project according to GNU LGPL, that is: it is one of the main contributors to the Wine project, sponsors its development and returns to the project all the innovations implemented for its commercial products.
I have to mention that this software, despite being based on Wine, is not free, so in order to use it you will have to pay for a license.
Main new features of Crossover 22.1
In this new version that is presented of Crossover 22.1 we can find that the vkd3d package with Direct3D 12 implementation working via translation of Vulkan graphics API calls has been updated to version 1.5.
In addition to this, it is also highlighted that support for the WineD3D library has been improved with OpenGL-based implementation of DirectX 1-11 and that over 400 changes have been moved from Wine to WineD3D.
Another novelty that is presented for Linux is that Adobe Acrobat Reader 11 no longer crashes, since the blockage was corrected when it was executed. It is also mentioned that Resolved dependency issues when using Fedora 37 and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
On the other hand, we can find that the version of the library SDL has been updated, also that the compatibility problems with the Ubisoft Connect update were corrected and the enhancement for game controllers was improved, such as support for Xbox Elite Series 2.
Regarding the compilation of macOS, is now supports DirectX 10/11 32-bit games, including Command and Conquer Remastered Collection, Total War ROME II – Emperor Edition, BioShock Infinite and Magicka 2.* and fixed GTA Online crashes.
Finally, it is mentioned that this new version of CrossOver 22.1 includes fixes for several regressions, including an issue where some macOS users were seeing blank windows for a variety of applications. Last but not least, it is also worth mentioning that this version has several translation updates, including Turkish, Hindi, Indonesian, Slovak, Romanian, and Ukrainian.
Si you want to know more about it about this new release, you can check the details by going to to the following link.
How to get Crossover 22.1?
For those interested in being able to obtain this utility in this new version, I must mention that only they can do so by paying a license which, clearly for many it has a price to be considered, in case you are not sure about it and/or you want to try this utility first to see if it will work for your needs, you should know that you can request a "Trial" license which gives you the possibility to test this tool for 14 days.
On the other hand, and one that I recommend, is that they should know that there is another way to test CrossOver without having to fork out (for now). This method can lead you to a certain point to change the system, but I can recommend the use of a VM or a dual boot in your case, since you must make use of the linux distribution "Deepin OS", which is a distribution quite popular Linux version that is based on Debian and that implements this tool within the system and users do not have to pay for it.
If you want to know more about the costs and how to obtain this tool, just go to to the following link.