HOW-TO: Play Project 1999 on a Mac

[calderone26]

Been trying to set up on my MacBook.. seems the initial how to is out of date and doesn’t work. I’ve seen a lot of this or that workaround, but couldn’t find anything recent.
I might just be missing it though. Hard to piece together what parts of replies i need to use and whatnot.

Anyone have some instructions to play on a Mac? Seems my option is to download and pay for parallels (or sim) for $100+ then buy a windows license for $100+.. what are my options?

[sogundordor]

Good news~
i just update parallels from 17 to 19 on my M1 iMac(8gb ram), no more red tint no more dgvoodoo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
parallels 19 on m2 macbook air (16gb ram, 10 core gpu), runs smooth below 60°C, also smooth with low power mode on
* not test in raid yet, 30ppl killing vindi has no problem~

[Calrizien]

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

Good news~
i just update parallels from 17 to 19 on my M1 iMac(8gb ram), no more red tint no more dgvoodoo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
parallels 19 on m2 macbook air (16gb ram, 10 core gpu), runs smooth below 60°C, also smooth with low power mode on
* not test in raid yet, 30ppl killing vindi has no problem~

Can you post your dgvoodoo settings?

[sogundordor]

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

Can you post your dgvoodoo settings?

Before i update to parallels 19, my dgvoodoo setting is like this:
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As i remember, in the DirectX tap i uncheck "dgvoodoo watermark", other than that i just use ramdom setting can't see the difference..

[Dundrige]

Has anyone been able to successfully play P99 with good performance on an Apple Silicone Mac using the Mac Gaming Porting Toolkit?

Otherwise, what’s the best way to play P99 on an Apple Silicon Mac without Parallels?

[dabbill]

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

Has anyone been able to successfully play P99 with good performance on an Apple Silicone Mac using the Mac Gaming Porting Toolkit?

Otherwise, what’s the best way to play P99 on an Apple Silicon Mac without Parallels?

I have gotten it so I can solo with Heroic Launcher, but it feels like it's running at about 20fps when in even a single group. Looking at CPU / GPU usage its sub 10%. Not sure how to get it to run faster. I cannot seem to get load times down either. Seems like it takes forever to load even to character select, and in to the game.

[Dundrige]

I wonder if anyone has figured this out as Parallels isn’t an option for me.

Playing p99 on apple silicon without parallels and get decent performance.

[dabbill]

I have not been playing p99 lately. I did get it to work decently. VMWare Fusion is free for personal use. Use that and install Windows ARM. When you create a VM for the first time in VMWare Fusion it asks if you want to download and install Windows ARM. Once the VM is up and running. Install the VMWare guest tools and reboot. Then copy p99 folder over to the VM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za2CyrxKYFs