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I'm trying to play my game on my main laptop screen, and have a second reference display to the right. I'm unable to move the cursor to the second display without pressing cmd+tab (and therefore minimizing my game) every single time I need to click something. It's like the cursor is trapped in the crossover window. When I go to mission control mode, the cursor is also stuck in just that one specific game app and I cannot move to any others.
My second display works perfectly in every context other than Crossover. I've tried every solution I can find on the Internet. It doesn't work to set the second display as the main display, because it then forces me to play the game on my second display. If I try to move the game window back over to my main display, it's so blown up I can't even change the resolution. Windowed mode vs full screen doesn't make a difference. "Automatically capture mouse in full screen" under graphics also doesn't make a difference.
Is there anything else I can do? I'm trying to use/take notes as I play, and this issue is singlehandedly eliminating that as a viable option!
The problem is that you are running "my game" in Full Screen mode. Some games can only be run in Full Screen mode. However, if "my game" can be run in Full Screen Windowed mode then you should be able to push your mouse cursor from one screen to the other.
If there is no option for Full Screen Windowed mode you could try BetterTouchTool or some other utility to allow you to set a keyboard command or mouse button to instantly jump the mouse cursor from wherever it is to a chosen location on your external display; and another to toggle it back to your built-in display.
I don’t play a lot of different games but that’s how it works for every game I’ve used in Crossover with a multiple monitor setup. If your mouse cursor can be pushed from one monitor to another when a native Mac app is in the foreground on your built-in display then there’s no reason any Windows app running using Crossover and outputting to your built-display should be getting in the way – unless that app is in Full Screen mode in which case not being able to do so is the expected behavior.
As John implies, knowing which game it is would help!
My personal experiences:
Note: I don't use Cmd-Tab because I consider it to be awful (I want to switch per window, not per app, Apple!).
I use a third-party window switcher; actually the one provided by BetterTouchTool, like John already recommended. I don't think this makes a difference though - any keyboard method to switch the focused window seems to work fine for me, and does not minimise the CrossOver game in question.
Gratuitous screenshot of Borderless Windowed Elden Ring with other stuff on top:
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