HOW-TO: Play Project 1999 on a Mac - Page 73

freezzo · #1 11-17-2021, 12:45 PM

Wine ends up hanging. I worked with Gcenx and come to the conclusion that it looks like it might be the way some custom code that was written and embedded into this custom dsetup.dll is loading itself into the eqgame.exe file or something around that. Wine has to translate memory addresses between the 32 bit and 64 bit code and it may not be doing that properly. This is just a guess. I think until the wine community finishes moving to PE mode and it gets ported to crossover, there might not be much to do. This is a lot of speculation though. See this for my research: https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=371291

SwordNboard · #2 11-19-2021, 09:30 PM

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 · #3 11-22-2021, 07:45 PM

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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 · #4 11-22-2021, 09:34 PM

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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 · #5 11-23-2021, 12:17 PM

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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 · #6 11-26-2021, 08:19 PM

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 · #7 01-10-2022, 03:01 AM

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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

Agrestic · #8 12-17-2021, 07:38 PM

Is wineskin or an alternative able to work with new mac books running macOS Monterey?
I am struggling to help my girlfriend get the game installed.

Boptop · #9 02-04-2022, 09:22 PM

yeah, i gave up trying to get it to work, couldn't get UI details to match window size

Meepasheep · #10 02-13-2022, 12:17 PM

Does anyone have a solution for this error that I'm receiving? I want to play this game on my Mac so badly. Here's what I've done:

1.) Downloaded/installed the most recent version of Parallels
2.) Installed Windows 11
3.) Downloaded EQ via the link in this Youtube guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj_MMVgJ_Dk (step 2) and added it to my shared desktop
4.) Created the "Patchme" shortcut
5.) Configured EQgame to run as administrator, operate in XP service pack 2, and safe emulation.

Every time I try to join the server, I get this error message. I feel like I'm SO close!

"Unable to load World

EverQuest cannot load the zone file \"load_obj.s3d\" in the directory that you are currently running EverQuest from. The file is present but it may be corrupt."

I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling, and patching. Thanks in advance!