Malfunction games under Windows on Mac

Hello guys,
through the Steam platform I play games with an iMac 27" with the following configuration:
Processor: Intel Core i7
Processor speed: 2.8 GHz
Number of processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
Memory: 8 GB Ram
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4850
VRAM: 512MB
BootCamp: Windows XP (120 GB)
3.0 VMware Fusion with Windows XP
All drivers installed with the BootCamp disk.
When I use the games under Mac OS X these work very well but of course those that are compatible with this system are still few. So I'm forced to use BootCamp to use the games are only compatible with Windows. Using Boot Camp I have some problems, because under this system games as "Guns of Icarus", "Wings of Prey" and "Napoleon Total War" will not work. Precisely with these games for a moment you open the loading screen of the game programs and then this closes immediately.
Games Wings of Prey and Total War Napoleon I tried only the demo, because I wanted to make sure they worked before buying the full game while the game Guns of Icarus I tried the full version because I've already purchased.
The computer has a powerful hardware that supports these games I tried. I hope you can give me some suggestion to run these games under Boot Camp.
Thanks

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
although I too installed Steam some days back in OSX (mostly to get the free Portal...) it is quite some years agi, since I last used Steam on a then owned PC.
My first action would be to look inside the Steam Forum if there are others with the same problems with the same games or in general with Steam on a BootCamp Windows.
Also, there might be some kind of log file inside the Steam folder on your harddisk where there might be some informations why the games/demos you tried crash.
Regards
Stefan

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