HOW-TO: Play Project 1999 on a Mac

[Rmele09]

I have this setup, but the sky is black and the screen is really dark, also I am getting this odd flicker of the graphics. Any help with this? I am playing on a Macbook Pro with 330m graphics

[Taagamb]

I just successfully installed P99 onto a 13" mid-2009 MacBook

2.13 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB 800 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256MB
Mac OSX 10.6

I opened EQ on my windows machine, set all the display settings the way I would want them on my macbook. Closed EQ. Installed the zip file from the OP to my applications folder, transferred my EQ folder to the P99 package as instructed. Renamed the folder from Everquest to P99. Verified the settings. Opened the program with no trouble except for the aforementioned font issue.

I then UPDATED TO LION FROM 10.6 and after the updated P99 still ran just fine.

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I then installed P99 onto an iMac:

2.4Ghz core 2 duo, 3GB 667Mhz DDR2 SDRAM -- Runs fine except the font issue.

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Followed Phobus' steps to correct the font issue. Now my P99 is running on both macs with correct fonts, and they are both running great. In fact it runs a lot faster than my PC did.

THANK YOU!!!!

(Merry Christmas To Me)

[Lenas]

First of all, to the OP, thanks for the great post. It's really hard to find any current resources regarding EQ and OSX.

Now, I'm sorry this doesn't exactly pertain to P99, but does anyone have current-day EQ running in OSX?

I'm using an early 2010 MBP, Radeon HD 6750m, 8GB ram, i7 2.2Ghz running OSX Lion 10.7.2

I've followed the tutorial completely, but every time I try to run it with my setup, I get a crash with eqgame.exe. If I set the target to EverQuest.exe instead, the patcher will launch and update files okay, but then after clicking login I get the same error. I assume it has something to do with the different client files, but I haven't yet been able to find a fix. Works 100% fine in Boot Camp, I'm just a lazy bastard and don't wanna reboot to play!

This is all I get:
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Hoping this is a solvable issue. Thank you very much to anyone ahead of time!

[nagmarr]

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

First of all, to the OP, thanks for the great post. It's really hard to find any current resources regarding EQ and OSX.

Now, I'm sorry this doesn't exactly pertain to P99, but does anyone have current-day EQ running in OSX?

I'm using an early 2010 MBP, Radeon HD 6750m, 8GB ram, i7 2.2Ghz running OSX Lion 10.7.2

I've followed the tutorial completely, but every time I try to run it with my setup, I get a crash with eqgame.exe. If I set the target to EverQuest.exe instead, the patcher will launch and update files okay, but then after clicking login I get the same error. I assume it has something to do with the different client files, but I haven't yet been able to find a fix. Works 100% fine in Boot Camp, I'm just a lazy bastard and don't wanna reboot to play!

This is all I get:
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Hoping this is a solvable issue. Thank you very much to anyone ahead of time!

Well you've gotten further than i have. I cant get anything to launch. I'm getting the same error as you. If you or anyone has figured this out that would be great, or if anyone would be willing to take the time and maybe walk me through the install via skype that would be amazing!! thank you. would love to play some everquest on my mac and dont want to do the botcamp route.

[entmike]

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

Well you've gotten further than i have. I cant get anything to launch. I'm getting the same error as you. If you or anyone has figured this out that would be great, or if anyone would be willing to take the time and maybe walk me through the install via skype that would be amazing!! thank you. would love to play some everquest on my mac and dont want to do the botcamp route.

Are you running through WINE? I had to run Wineskin and kill tasks then ran Project 1999 then it generated an eqclient.ini file which I then set the WindowedMode to TRUE.

[Taagamb]

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

I just successfully installed P99 onto a 13" mid-2009 MacBook

2.13 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB 800 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256MB
Mac OSX 10.6

I opened EQ on my windows machine, set all the display settings the way I would want them on my macbook. Closed EQ. Installed the zip file from the OP to my applications folder, transferred my EQ folder to the P99 package as instructed. Renamed the folder from Everquest to P99. Verified the settings. Opened the program with no trouble except for the aforementioned font issue.

I then UPDATED TO LION FROM 10.6 and after the updated P99 still ran just fine.

--

I then installed P99 onto an iMac:

2.4Ghz core 2 duo, 3GB 667Mhz DDR2 SDRAM -- Runs fine except the font issue.

--

Followed Phobus' steps to correct the font issue. Now my P99 is running on both macs with correct fonts, and they are both running great. In fact it runs a lot faster than my PC did.

THANK YOU!!!!

(Merry Christmas To Me)

Update:

The game is actually very dark. It's sometimes difficult to play. The sky also does not render. I haven't played with the wine settings at all yet. This is happening on all of the macs that I put EQ on.

[Personus]

Hi, I followed Phoebus' instructions to the T. When I open P99, I get a black window with the EQ cursor within.

Here is my LOG.

fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32ebf0,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32eef0,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting
fixme:d3d:buffer_PreLoad Too many declaration changes or converting dynamic buffer, stopping converting
fixme:imm:ImeEscape (0x127b90, 2064, 0xffe7): stub
fixme:imm:ImeEscape (0x127b90, 2065, 0x37): stub
fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_ActivateKeyboardLayout 0x4090409, 0000: semi-stub!
XIO: fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":464"
after 263 requests (263 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

[Danimoth]

I have a 2008 Macbook. I have tried installing and reinstalling with all the correct steps. Once I get in and select my server, the game tries to load(not showing the background picture, just the loading bar with its text) and once it gets to character select I can see the UI buttons but no background or character. At this point its crashes. Any help?

I have also Updated the Wineskin Wrapper to 2.5.8 and the engine to WS9CX11.2.0 and the same problem still exists.

After a full reinstall, after Wineskin was updated, the game now loads into the character select. Now it says my spell files are out of date. I have downloaded the newest spells files according to the page http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...ght=patch+info
Still not working.

[vinnidel]

I seem to encounter a problem similar to those posted before--when I attempt to open "Project 1999" it bounces on the dock and needs to be "Force Quit"ted. The apparent solution to this problem was to update Wineskin, but when I go to Advanced>>Tools>>Update Wrapper, I am presented with the following error notice:

"There is an error with the installation of your Master Wrapper. Please update your Wrapper in Wineskin Winery (a manual install of a wrapper for Wineskin Winery will work too)"

Any idea what I've done wrong/how to fix this? Thanks.

[youshoes]

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

I seem to encounter a problem similar to those posted before--when I attempt to open "Project 1999" it bounces on the dock and needs to be "Force Quit"ted. The apparent solution to this problem was to update Wineskin, but when I go to Advanced>>Tools>>Update Wrapper, I am presented with the following error notice:

"There is an error with the installation of your Master Wrapper. Please update your Wrapper in Wineskin Winery (a manual install of a wrapper for Wineskin Winery will work too)"

Any idea what I've done wrong/how to fix this? Thanks.

I experienced the "nothing happens" thing just today. After various attempts to work through the problem, I finally go to the message you've indicated, telling me I cannot update the Wineskin. I looked online and found the "Wineskin Winery" application, made for Mac, installed it. I updated the "Installed Engines" box with "WS8WineCX11.0.0 (I also installed the engine our "project 1999 wrapper" claims it is using). I updated the second box "wrapper version" to the most current version.

This got me into the game and stopped the "non-action" i was getting for the most part of the day.