HOW-TO: Play Project 1999 on a Mac

[camdog]

I went in to my system preferences and saw that my default shell was still set to bash. I changed that to zsh. Now when I run Wineskin the initial terminal window that pops up does not give me any kind of warning message, but nothing happens after that. I wonder if the coder of the Wineskin is calling bash (I assume so?)

[Murphie]

I got the game running on my Mac with Mojave, played for a couple of hours until I died, game crashed and now the app won't open. No message, just simply won't open after double clicking it or selecting open in the menu. Anyone have similar issues?

[paronga]

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

I got the game running on my Mac with Mojave, played for a couple of hours until I died, game crashed and now the app won't open. No message, just simply won't open after double clicking it or selecting open in the menu. Anyone have similar issues?

How did you get it running?

I've tested doing the update file by file. I've found out that the last file that would stop the app from opening is the "dsetup.dll" file. If I cope this over, it wont open.

Did you do anything specific with the wine engine you're running?

I'm running 10.13.6 High Sierra. Been running EQ for years, never had a problem.

Should I get a new wine skin going?

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

Having trouble getting Wineskin to open after I add in patch files...

I haven't played in a few months since right before Green was released. I tried to open today with no luck.

I uninstalled everything and reinstalled according to the standard YouTUbe video I've followed about a dozen times to do this. But this time, when I get the patch files installed, Wineskin opens shortcut menu but just sits there for 15-20 minutes, then it closes with nothing happening.

When I start the wineskin up before adding patch files to get the client.ini file to be created, it starts up as usual. It's only after I add the patch files that it doesn't seem to do anything for me.

Any suggestions?

I'm having the same experience. Worked pre green, now I can't make it go [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Murphie]

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

How did you get it running?

I've tested doing the update file by file. I've found out that the last file that would stop the app from opening is the "dsetup.dll" file. If I cope this over, it wont open.

Did you do anything specific with the wine engine you're running?

I'm running 10.13.6 High Sierra. Been running EQ for years, never had a problem.

Should I get a new wine skin going?



I'm having the same experience. Worked pre green, now I can't make it go [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Downloaded Nyme's wrapper, copied over the patch file by file, app takes forever to verify, once verified it works.

Still crashes when I die so I end up having to re-install everything and start fresh. Super frustrating, will probably just quit the damn game if I can't get it figured out.

are you saying to remove "setup.dll" and it will re open? By the way it tries to open, loads in the dock and then dissapears.

[Argh]

If you have an issue with getting the .app to open and you're on High Sierra or Mojave, try turning off the 'Auto Detect GPU info for Direct3D' setting. Here's how to do that:

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

Right click the .app & click Show Package Content

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Click on Wineskin.app

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Click Set Screen Option

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Uncheck Auto Detect GPU info for Direct3D

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If that doesn't fix anything or if your issue is only that you can't relaunch the app after it has crashed, it sounds pretty similar to a common problem people have on windows where some process is still hanging. You can open 'Activity Monitor' and look for the name of your EQ .app and force them to quit by clicking on them and then the 'x' in the top left.

Here's a screenshot of the relevant process you'd look for. For example: my everquest wine .app is named P99:

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[Mignart]

Anyone got a fix working for Catalina? Regretfully at work we had to update to Catalina and need ways to pass boring meetings! =)

[Argh]

There are no fixes for Catalina. Catalina no longer supports 32bit applications. You need a new partition/vm with an older version of osx, or windows.

[Duncanator583]

Does anyone have the issue where your computer "tabs" out of the client during game play? Sometimes it does this while I am running and I will continue in a straight line, but sometimes I start spinning in place (which equals death and lag).

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!!

I am running High Sierra on a MacBook Pro (Yeah I know....)

[paronga]

Originally Posted by Duncanator583 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Does anyone have the issue where your computer "tabs" out of the client during game play? Sometimes it does this while I am running and I will continue in a straight line, but sometimes I start spinning in place (which equals death and lag).

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!!

I am running High Sierra on a MacBook Pro (Yeah I know....)

Hay mate, I use High Sierra too, as I do audio production and I'm not interested in upgrading. I had this issue for ages. You need to update all of your wineskin stuff, download the latest packages from the website, and the latest wine bottles then do a reinstall. Fixes the issue for me permanently.

[MikeXG]

I know it has been asked several times - but just curious if anyone has been able to get P99 to run on macOS Catalina yet? I've been able to play on 10.14 without much issue but I am thinking of buying a new mac soon and it won't be able to downgrade the OS - I'd rather not bootcamp or run a VM if I can avoid it.

Thanks all - love the unofficial support the P99 Mac community offers.