HOW-TO: Play Project 1999 on a Mac

[SwordNboard]

I can play fine with Parallels 17 and Win11 ARM, but it takes an exorbitant amount of resources compared to running it independently. That offends my OCD. Maybe soon we will get a reliable WINE engine or sympathetic version of dsetup.dll...

[bcdi]

Originally Posted by SwordNboard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I can play fine with Parallels 17 and Win11 ARM...

Still unable to pull it off for some reason. Even just tried a fresh install of titanium + the v55 files.

Do you remember what your process was like?

[SwordNboard]

Originally Posted by bcdi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Still unable to pull it off for some reason. Even just tried a fresh install of titanium + the v55 files.

Do you remember what your process was like?

Installed Parallels, installed the Windows Insider Win11 ARM, copied my eq folder to the desktop and launched via the patchme shortcut. Make sure your eqgame.exe is set for Win XP SP2 compatibility and go in to advanced to check 'stable emulation.' Mine ran without those properties, but reduced certain crashes.

[bcdi]

Originally Posted by SwordNboard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Make sure your eqgame.exe is set for Win XP SP2 compatibility and go in to advanced to check 'stable emulation.'

This "did the trick". Glad to be able to log in again, though I now understand your other note on resources. Yikes.

[oldschoolguy]

Unable to get it to install. I have CD's.

- Downloaded the wrapper
- Browsed down to wineskin
- Selected "Install windows software"
- Selected to install "install.exe" on CD1 (titanium disks)
- It prompts to select executable which is /P22/eqgame.exe
- Nothing happens, install doesn't launch.

Link to installing from scratch is at 404.

[kabouter]

Originally Posted by bcdi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This "did the trick". Glad to be able to log in again, though I now understand your other note on resources. Yikes.

Thanks I couldn't figure out what the issue was either, but with parallels 17.1 change the following: compatibility -> [change emulation settings] -> safe emulation (from the dropdown).

That worked for me.

Speaking of resources, I've lowered my parallels instance from 4cpu's/8gb to 2cpu's/4gb and it still seems to be running fine (macbook m1 pro 16gb)

And do we need to use run titanium.bat or can we just use eqgame.exe instead? Seems to take quite a while to load with run titanium

[countbb]

Originally Posted by kabouter [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thanks I couldn't figure out what the issue was either, but with parallels 17.1 change the following: compatibility -> [change emulation settings] -> safe emulation (from the dropdown).

That worked for me.

This helped me get past the server select window! However, it doesn't seem like any of my environmental textures are loading (just character models and objects like torches). Did you have this issue?

Also, any tips for the camera? Feels like there is a dpi of 1,000,000. I can't look anywhere but directly down it seems.

[oldschoolguy]

Originally Posted by countbb [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This helped me get past the server select window! However, it doesn't seem like any of my environmental textures are loading (just character models and objects like torches). Did you have this issue?

Also, any tips for the camera? Feels like there is a dpi of 1,000,000. I can't look anywhere but directly down it seems.

I had same issue too running on Virtual Box (similar to parallels).

Had to disable bunch of stuff in the eqclient.ini

HardwareTnL=FALSE
VertexShaders=FALSE
20PixelShaders=FALSE
14PixelShaders=FALSE
1xPixelShaders=FALSE
MultiPassLighting=FALSE

What I'd recommend is disable them all, and reenable one by one to see which one causes the problem.