I download CrossOver on Mac and I have been pretty successful playing GoG.com games but this on is the hardest. So With Populus I went to my ancient Windows computer which runs on Window 7 to try it from there. So basically I tried reading every last forum on Populus and with no luck..

Basically what is happening is I can launch the game and nothing comes up. Just a black screen same thing it did on my Mac. When I try to get into the task manager to shut it down it says not responding so I'm guessing it's crash every time.

It's really upsetting because I played this game alot years ago and just got done enjoying Roller Coaster Tycoon! Would love to play it thanks everyone for any valuable information you can offer.

I know this is an old post, but I found a work-around.

If you open up Crossover and then go to your Populous bottle after installing, then click the "Run Command Button," and browse the window that pops up, choose and then run the PopTB.exe file and it should work.