HOW-TO: Play Project 1999 on a Mac

[Hideousclaw]

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

After a re-install of my MacBook Pro around half a year ago I could not get wineskin to work again (I had been playing for a long time using Wineskin). I tried a lot, new install of eq in the wrapper, updating the wrapper with recommendation from this thread, Vile's wrapper, etc. I then installed bootcamp and played there, but with the advent of green I decided to give it another go and to my surprise got it working on my Mojave installation. This is what I did:

1. Remove all old P99 wrappers, wine, wineskin etc.
2. Installed latest Wine stable (v.4.0.2)
3. Installed latest Wineskin Winery (v.1.7)
4. Created New Blank Wrapper in Wineskin Winery
5. Name it P99 or similar and install EQ Titanium using "Install Software" in Wineskin
6. After installing make sure to select the correct windows exe (will be eqgame.exe) (under "Advanced")
7. Add "patchme" to the exe-flags (under "Advanced")
8. Under "Screen options" deselect "Auto Detect GPU Info for Direct3D"
9. Under "Advanced" click tools and "Winetricks", under dlls click d3dx9 and under settings glsl=disabled (not sure if this is really necessary), but worked for me.
10. Under "fonts" (still in "Winetricks") click "corefonts", under settings click videomemorysize=2048. Then click "Run" to install these elements.
11. Apply latest patch from project1999 to the EQ folder
12. Create an eqclient.ini file in the Everquest directory and paste in:

[Defaults]
WindowedModeXOffset=1
WindowedModeYOffset=1
WindowedMode=TRUE
[VideoMode]
Width=1024
Height=768
WidthWindowed=1024
HeightWindowed=768
WindowedWidth=1024
WindowedHeight=768
FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32
FullscreenRefreshRate=0

13. Edit as needed for your screen-size.
14. I then had problems with wineskin not being able to run "dsetup.dll", but after I changed the engine used (under "Tools", "Change Engine Used") to "WS9Wine2.22" it worked like a charm.

Hope it can help getting you ready for Green!

/Nyme (60 Wiz, Europa, Blue)

My hero! This worked for me! You're the best!!

[StrCrusade]

I am just coming back to the game after years and years away so I was starting from scratch trying to get it to work. I am not particular tech savvy but a combination of the YouTube video "How to Install Project 1999 on a Mac" by Derferter and then adding on what Nyme posted got me there. When I added the most recent patch files into what Derferter shows you the client would not open at all, but it would open without those patch notes it would just tell me that my spell graphics were out of date. So at that point i added what Nyme posted and that fixes it. If anyone else is experiencing trouble I just went from scratch to playing in a matter of a couple of hours, so stay strong and keep messing with it and you will get there! Feel free to message me if you get hung up anywhere and I will be more specific about what worked for me. Thanks Nyme!

[StrCrusade]

One more thing...I saw a few people were gaving Gamma issues throughout the thread. So people suggested various things and some things worked for some and not for others. Initially the game was unplayable at night because of the darkness. For me the gamma slider in game did nothing. I went into the wineskin settings and maxed the gamma out there and that also did nothing. What worked for me was going into my eqclient.ini file and finding the line for Gamma. It said something like Gamma=20.0000000. I changed the 2 to an 8 and that worked for me.

[pizzasuit]

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

going into my eqclient.ini file and finding the line for Gamma. It said something like Gamma=20.0000000. I changed the 2 to an 8 and that worked for me.

Using Nyme's wrapper, copied files over into folders (replacing all, and not dragging folders themselves), replaced eqclient.ini and character UI files from my PCs folder and used StrCrusade's gamma tip; up and running on a Early 2008 MBP w/ NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512 MB running El Capitan 10.11.6

thank all the brave mac users who have treaded this path before me!

[Macgregoroi]

It worked it worked!!!!!!!

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

14. I then had problems with wineskin not being able to run "dsetup.dll", but after I changed the engine used (under "Tools", "Change Engine Used") to "WS9Wine2.22" it worked like a charm.

[Rexin]

Would it be possible to dropbox your wrapper, please?

[Nyme]

Yes will make a dropbox download of the wrapper. Will probably be up in the next few days

/Nyme

[Chortles Snort|eS]

Is the above Mojave 10.14.6 (supplemental 2) compatible?

pls advise

[Nyme]

It is Mojave 10.14.6, not supplemental update 2. Will probably update it soon though. Zipfile is uploading to dropbox, but slow upload means its probably first there by tomorrow.

/Nyme

[Hideousclaw]

New OS (Catalina), any confirmation on if this works for it yet?