HOW-TO: Play Project 1999 on a Mac

[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?

[Ukeka]

enrolling costs like 70$? are you for real? or did you do something wrong.

[Crunk]

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

enrolling costs like 70$? are you for real? or did you do something wrong.

For Parallels? Didn't do anything wrong. It's a recurring annual subscription that, given its competitors' pricing is extremely expensive for not much extra benefit. This is why I've tried to get it working on VMWare which is free. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[drakkan]

So I have a brand new macbook pro M2 Max and on crossover using WinEQ2, I get no more than 20 frames in any zone, and when raiding, I get 3 FPS. Does anyone run crossover with a higher frame rate? Is it wineq doing something?

I haven't tried it yet without wineq2 and being that it's a program running within the everquest bottle, I'm sure it could make something worse but not sure. Any help?

[drakkan]

Those that are using parallels, how much ram and cpu cores are you devoting to run p99 on the virtual machine?

[nordbear]

Hey! Been running on parallels v17 on my M1 mac for a couple of months without any issues. However, recently I started getting lag whenever I move my mouse. It happens in every app, not just p99. Anyone else had this issue? Trying to get help from parallels support but they are not very helpful..

[sogundordor]

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

Hey! Been running on parallels v17 on my M1 mac for a couple of months without any issues. However, recently I started getting lag whenever I move my mouse. It happens in every app, not just p99. Anyone else had this issue? Trying to get help from parallels support but they are not very helpful..

Memory pressure too high? I'm use imac m1 with 8gb ram, which share 4gb ram to parallels, it always turn to yellow sometimes red if i watch youtube when waiting, it will start to drop fps on parallels side

Yesterday i start to share 2gb ram to parallels to save more ram on mac side, it seems works with no problem, just killed vindi with 35+ ppl no fps drop, both mac and parallels run smooth, will try it again when 100+ ppl raid comes[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[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.