I am running most of the GOG games from within CrossOver and that has almost always worked or when it didn't it was the game that refused to run. However, Tonight I got a few games from the Interplay special and on 2of them I get an access violation error almost as soon as the installer is started. This in the xp environment as well as in the vista one.

When I looked in the CrossOver forums, I noticed another person who encountered this problem. We are searching on that side as well but I'd like to know whether there is a new installer version that was used to create some of the packages. We did have a new CrossOver version not long ago, but I have installed other GOG games on it without any problems.

The exact error is
run time error (at 130:148):
Access violation at address 47CF1763 in module 'gdiplus.dll'. Read of address 00215B84

edit: no code tag :)

The 2.0 installer doesn't work on Wine1.4, which I believe Crossover is currently based on. Some people have reported it working on Wine 1.5.

Hah...thank you! /nogui works :)

How do you do this in Crossover?

Thanks, found it.

Thank you Gowor!

This still works.

Just came across this problem when trying to install Star Control 1+2 (which I bought today), and again, the nogui thing worked. (I use Wine, not Crossover) Thanks!

/nogui also worked for me for Fallout 1 on xubuntu 13.10 + wine.

Thanks, /nogui worked for me also.

It's lame but how can I run .exe with /nogui switch?

OK, forget it.... :D

Same thing was happening to me on Lubuntu 13.10 on Wine 1.4.1, /nogui fixed it, thanks!

Upping this topic to say that I had the same issue with both Blackwell Bundle and Epiphany, and /NOGUI solved it. It probably works with every game.