Mac, AO, Crossover

[Hakuoal]

I'm new to macs and im not sure how to use the program crossover to play AO. Can someone help me ? I am getting "unsupported operation" when i try to patch. I know many players play on their macs, and I'd like to as well.

[DocJones]

Heyas,

some hints are here and here.

Basically, in Crossover check out your display settings: Make you are running AO in fullscreen mode, while providing the crossover bottle with a supported resolution (like 1920x1200). Check your installed Applications in the bottle, I have the following installed:
- Windows Installer 2.0 Redistributable
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (<- might be unneccesary due to FC upgraded to more recent IDE)
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable
- msls31 (<- lolwut?)
- Internet Explorer 6.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1
- Crossover HTML Engine

If you are expirienced, you can always try building WINE from the scratch (here is the link), current WINE version (1.3.4) supports LE missions (which crash crossover). You will need to download some stuff (Xcode!). Installation of the above mentioned packages ca be done via the winetricks command.

Hth, regards
/Z

[Vhax]

- Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (<- might be unneccesary due to FC upgraded to more recent IDE)

Actually, the upgrade was from 2003 to 2005

But be sure to get SP1 of the redist

[DocJones]

hm, what for? I mean, currently everything works. What do i gain from the SP1?

[Vhax]

hm, what for? I mean, currently everything works. What do i gain from the SP1?

If FC compiles their stuff with Visual Studio 2005 SP1, you'll need the 2005 SP1 redist to run it.

[DocJones]

Ah, ok. Guess i will notice this when WINE throws some .dll failures at me

[Lliers]

I think would be safer/easier to patch in Windows (VMWare Fusion, Parallels Desktop, BootCamp) and then play in CrossOver.

[DocJones]

If you install ie6 in WINE (winetricks ie6), patching works fine.

[Hakuoal]

Heyas,

some hints are here and here.

Basically, in Crossover check out your display settings: Make you are running AO in fullscreen mode, while providing the crossover bottle with a supported resolution (like 1920x1200). Check your installed Applications in the bottle, I have the following installed:
- Windows Installer 2.0 Redistributable
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (<- might be unneccesary due to FC upgraded to more recent IDE)
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable
- msls31 (<- lolwut?)
- Internet Explorer 6.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1
- Crossover HTML Engine

If you are expirienced, you can always try building WINE from the scratch (here is the link), current WINE version (1.3.4) supports LE missions (which crash crossover). You will need to download some stuff (Xcode!). Installation of the above mentioned packages ca be done via the winetricks command.

Hth, regards
/Z

thanks for the information;
where would i find those for my bottle?

[DocJones]

thanks for the information;
where would i find those for my bottle?

Heyas,

"Configure"-->"Manage Bottles"--><select your Bottle>-->"Applications"

Check the List and install one after the other and try running AO in between. Not all i listed may be needed, it is just the list i have installed in my bottle.

regards
/Z

[Hakuoal]

Well now when i try to run it, it can't retrieve dimensions.

[DocJones]

Hm, sounds like a firewall'ish issue? You got some stuff running to prevent AO calling home? (LittleSnitch, ...)

[Hakuoal]

well it didn't do that before i added any of the things listed so im going to remove one by one and see if it was one of those

[Hakuoal]

ok update -

for some reason it worked and i didnt uninstall anything; but the display is extremely huge....

[DocJones]

Heyas,

"extremely huge"? As in "I changed my screen resolution to 320x240 and everything looks so ... 'extremely huge"? A screenie would help. (SHIFT+CMD+4 takes a window shot)

I noticed when i am using a high colored resolution (32bit), i cant play, since i got a mouse pointer the size of my screen. Use 16b color depth and 16/32 textures to get best performance (at least on my late 2006 24" iMac - nVidia GeForce 7300 GT).

regards
/Z

[Hakuoal]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y83...5at81903AM.png

this is what it looks like. with doing what you suggested as well, changing the res to 1024.x760x16, 16bpp, 16/32bpp, low texture quality with compressed textures box checked and unchecked..not sure what else to try..
this is my bottle for ao too, http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y83...5at82906AM.png

[DocJones]

Hm, ok that looks a lot like my attempts to switch to color depth of 32bit. Try running winecfg from the bottle manager and look up the resolution and graphic setup there. You should be able to set your virtual screen size to 1920x1080. Experiment (one step after the other). If you get the screen above, hit <enter> and type "/camp" to leave the game.

[Hakuoal]

ok thanks, i will try when i get a minute. appreciate all your patience and help.

[Hakuoal]

ah well i tried what you suggested and it still did it, large pointer icon. I did try my max resolution at 32b and max res in the wine bottle manager section. um im not sure what else to try to get this going i will **** with it more though..nothing hurt a good ol troubleshootin .....8 days into it...lmao XD

[Hakuoal]

still cant figure it out