WINE package for Neverwinter now available for Mac owners

aescleal · May 2013

Hey all! danthescot, aka DanIsTheMan from The Porting Team has put together a sweet Neverwinter Wine package for Mac owners using Wineskin.

I've tested it and can confirm it's quite lovely using WineBottler!

So pop on over to -> The Porting Team website and follow Dan's easy guide to download and install.

It's all wrapped up for you if you want it, and acts just like the Windows client.

Dan warns though, "The game doesn't perform well on 10.7.5 for AMD users and WILL require an update to 10.8 in order to comfortably play the game".

I can speak personally on this, as I was using 10.7.5, and have the AMD video. Apparently the AMD video drivers in 10.7.5 aren't too smashing! It was unplayable until I updated to Mountain Lion 10.8.3. Then suddenly it was loading up fast and begging me to play! You see, I own a plain little 2011 Mac mini and I did turn down many of the video setting to get the fastest gameplay from the client, but it's beautiful even turned down, no complaints here! So, this is a big FYI for Mac owners who want to check it out.

Just follow Dan's instructions closely, there are very few steps, and nothing technical. No terminal use. No previous Wine knowhow. No problems (for me at least).

This thread isn't meant to attract Mac flamers, so please play nice. I'm passing this along for Dan who has just created his Neverwinter account and can't start new posts yet.

Big thanks to Dan!

Enjoy Neverwinter,
Aescleal

aescleal · May 2013

There is so much traffic on the forums right now, I thought I' give this a Bump.

enderlin50 · May 2013

Awesome! Sticky this. Will be nice to give the MAC users the option to play.

Welcome to Faerun

gridwarden · May 2013

Good job. I'll reinstall Neverwinter on one of my spare Macs to try this out to see how it compares to Crossover.

danthescot · May 2013

Thank you aescleal for posting this thread!

I'd just like to mention that Wineskin has been used to 'port' this game in order to run on Mac OSX. In case some of you don't all ready know, it is considered a port as it is a wrapper, similar to cider wrappers, that of course allows certain games to run through wine. Visit http://portingteam.com/ or http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php for more information!

Please remember to read the instructions on the portingteam carefully, and have a look at the 'known issues' area if you encounter any issues (as the issue may all ready have a solution).

I too would appreciate if this thread was Sticky'd!

Have fun!

- Dan.

kenjidoom · May 2013

Thank you for this! I have a good friend who uses a Mac and will be very happy to know he can play. I kinda wish game designers would just make it available for Mac to begin with though hah.

aescleal · May 2013

Update on my experience with Dan's Wine package:

I'm not sure what the difference is, but rather than use the advanced video settings with most things turned down or off, I've opted to just use basic video options and then move the bottom slider to the far left for speed.

This seems to have improved my performance significantly. It was good the way it was, but better now. Actually, I use the same settings on my 6 year old windows computer, and I don't think I can tell the difference between Mac and PC while playing the game.

Oh, and one other thing that did help performance on the Mac was to make sure the game resolution was set to the same as my monitor resolution. The default resolution in Neverwinter was set at 1080, and my actual res was only 960. I lowered game res and immediately saw an improvement. But the largest improvement was using basic video settings in options, and moving the bottom slider to the speed setting.

I hope this helps somebody else. Being able to play from our Mac means my wife and I can both play Neverwinter.

Thanks DanTheScot

gefjon · June 2013

I run Neverwinter in a Wineskin and this worked fine until the latest patch. Now I get to the EULA screen and my mouse and keyboard stop responding - so I can't get any further.

I also run Star Trek Online in a similar way and this still runs fine even after updating to Legend of Romulus.

I have checked and confirmed that both Wineskins are using exactly the same settings. I tried with the better graphics and the reduced graphics options - no difference.

Any ideas please?

Edit - I downloaded the latest version of the Wineskin (the one intended for Neverwinter this time rather than a copy of the STO one). The game now loads up and lets me login correctly.

Unfortunately, it is still too unresponsive to be playable.

Oddly enough, STO is perfectly playable, even at a higher resolution than I was using with Neverwinter. I wonder why that is? Presumably PW are using the same game engine for both games?

enderlin50 · June 2013

Hey Im attempting to run NW on my GFs MAC laptop. I downloaded Wineskin Winery, Winebottler(not sure how this works), and 7zX(not sure what this is for). I downloaded the Setup File and if I run it I get the option to run directly or Convert with Winebottler. If I convert it creates what I believe is the wrapper but if I click that nothing happens. If I run directly it launches, goes through the startup, NW Launcher opens but never patches.

Now says in one of the Known Errors about dragging from the DMG to the Desktop so your not running fram the DMG, Im not sure how to drag from the DMG or if im even properly using the DMG to get to the launcher.

I have Wineskin Winery - Wineskin-2.5.9 on my desktop is there something else that should be there trying to run this Setup File?

enderlin50 · June 2013

Ok I have the wrapper created and NW Setup File on my desktop. But when I go into Advanced on the Wrapper it has the Setup File greyed out.

EDIT: Got the Wrapper to accept the Setup File from the Downloads section. When the Wrapper is launched it just gives the Cryptic Error report

EDIT #2: Just redid the wrapper and each time I launch it I get the Cryptic Error

Using Engine WS9Win1.6-rc1X

spreadhed · June 2013

OMG thank you so much for this thread!!! I have been using my 5-year old PC just to play Neverwinter until I found a good wine package ... and here it is!!! Big ups *high-5*.

EDIT: Just wanted to say that if you follow the directions and check the known issues like the guide says then this will work and run like a dream!!! Sooooo awesome.

petpet2 · August 2013

now that the game download requires the "Arc" launcher, how do we go about that?

I followed the instructions in Dan's site, but instead I did it for the Launcher (Arcinstaller.exe). Created the app, launched it. then nothing happens.

Any ideas?

commanderpink · September 2013

I have the latest MacBook Air and fully updated Mountain Lion. The port has been working perfectly un until yesterday afternoon (Fri Sep 28). (It works fine yesterday morning). I have tried reinstalling, and the game is still crashing at the same exact spot (when the loading bar is just under the first C in Cryptic).

I am not sure if this makes a difference, but the game is also crashing in the same spot when I run it in CrossOver 12.5 which also was working fine before.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated (I hate having to reboot into Windoze to play)

commanderpink · October 2013

found my problem... Razer Synapse update broken NWO... after uninstalling it works, but now can't use my Razer mouse or nostromo

zebular · October 2013

. . . . . Considering how old this thread is and the myriad of updated to the client and delivery of it, I am closing this (Necro Rule). OP, please feel free to create a new thread on this with pertinent up-to-date information. Thanks!

WINE package for Neverwinter now available for Mac owners

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