P99 on Mac M1 / UTM / Win 11 ARM

[oconnor]

P99 runing on Mac M1 Pro.
I am running it now on Windows 11 ARM undir UTM.
Default setup of 11 ARM.
Then I use the dgVoodooCpl , Open the MS\x86 folder and copy D3D8.dll, D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll files into your p99 directory.
Also copy the Exe file it self.
Run a bat file that contains.

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C Start /affinity 1 .\eqgame.exe patchme

This runs the game fine in 1440 Res , might need some tweaking but at least it run and the Characters modules show, they did not when I did not run the dgVood ( some bug in DX9 impliment in the Win11 Arm)

[Rick Sanchez]

How is it running on m1 arch? Just curious

[oconnor]

it works.... would not want to play all the time like this, problems with pointer speed, and such are there, but when thats solved its sufficiant.

[oconnor]

Just tested with Parallels and its much smother and also mouse and keyboard work perfect !
Fully Playable.

[freezzo]

you can try adding a boot flag (in boot order => advanced settings) of `devices.usb.enable_mouse=0` and see if that helps. I use that on parallels 16 and it helped my mouse speed issues. However It didn't work in Parallels 17 when i tested it.

[freezzo]

Oh you said it works fine in parallels. Are you on 18? I'm curious about that one.

[MaCtastic]

Just tested with Parallels and its much smother and also mouse and keyboard work perfect !
Fully Playable.

Did you need to do anything different then just installing while on Win 11 parallels? Getting memory read errors when launching the .bat file.

[torogdil]

Did you need to do anything different then just installing while on Win 11 parallels? Getting memory read errors when launching the .bat file.

I have that problem too. Has anyone found a solution? I've tried adding /affinity 1 to the .bat file, and I've tried running as administrator, and enabling compatibility mode for Windows XP. No luck so far!

[torogdil]

Okay, what worked for me was turning off compatibility mode, turning on "Safe Emulation", not running as administrator, and leaving the .bat file as default.