EQ on Mac (Wineskin) Question

[Mitchell92]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone had a way of getting EQ Titanium in the Wineskin wrapper to run in full screen on a Mac?

I managed to get it working (Although I don't recall how) with little issues on my prior MacBook.

I ended up spilling something on it, and it was too expensive to repair, so I bought myself a 15" Retina MacBook Pro, and now it just displays as a grey box with nothing in it if I attempt to run it in full screen.

This is relatively disappointing, as I have a difficult time finding a good decent resolution to play in for Windowed mode, that looks "nice". To make things more complicated, it becomes very buggy when I switch between running on the laptop retina display, and an external display that I use when I'm at my desk.

I have a legitimate copy of EQ Titanium, and I've tried doing an install in a Windows 7 VM inside Parallels Desktop, of which I use to play EQ2 (And I'm getting into EQ Live...), although I keep getting a memory error. From looking online, it appears like said error is often due to resolution problems. I've been unable to find something that will run with reasonable graphics. I've tried manually editing the eqclient.ini file on the install I did in my VM, but it just is running at so low resolution.


I would greatly appreciate it if someone had insight on both running in Wineskin, as well as insight in running in the VM, and getting reasonable resolutions (Preferably full screen), it would be of extreme gratitude.

Thank you.

[Sorn]

I wish I knew the exact answer to your question about Wineskin, but I use a VM on my Macbook pro.

I too encountered various weird blackout issues when I first started playing again 2 months ago on a newer Mac. In the end, I had to match both the resolution of my VM and the resolution of EQ in full screen mode to get it to not black out on me when I went full screen, and make sure the windowed mode resolution was displaying for the times I accidentally exited full screen. The main problem is that Macs don't seem to like anything that exceeds the size of the native Mac resolution in any direction on VMs.

Also, there are really 3 settings for screen resolution to modify. The first is the VM itself. The second is EQ's opening screens, as in the log in, server, and loading pages. The third is the game itself. IIRC, the eqclient modifies EQ's opening screens...

It'll take some trial and error in EQ to get the right resolution. Here are my settings if you want to try those out (not sure how Wineskin works):
VM (control panel): 1280x800 (full screen)
EQ (the opening screens): 1280x768 (cannot exceed the VM resolution)
EQ (full screen game): 1280x768 (cannot exceed the VM resolution)
EQ (windowed mode): 800x480 (I tend to run into issues if I make this too big...mostly just screen run-off, though)

I do like full screen since my laptop is a 13". Macs give you the ability to make multiple desktops, so I just full screen on one desktop and switch to another if I want to look up something. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Mitchell92]

Thanks for your input.

I will try this later tonight or tomorrow.