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therealdoh123
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I know the other thread is a sticky (http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=76799) but its an old archived post and can no longer be edited. I have a new version made, and that post has 2000+ replies, so maybe its time for a new post to be stickied :-)
What the heck is the Unofficial Mac version?
Its a mac .app you can put the Windows version inside of, and run it on Mac OS X without having to install or use Windows! The final product looks and works like a normal Mac .app (for the most part). This download is a "wrapper" not the full game. You will have to either copy your installed version from Windows inside of it (fastest), or reinstall the game into it and do full patching and everything... More specifically, it is a Wineskin wrapper.
just a big note...
This is not made by or supported in any way by Cryptic Studios, Perfect World, or anyone associated with them... this is entirely fan made
System Requirements are the same as Windows version, since it uses the Windows version
It runs on Mac OS X 10.6, OS X 10.7, and OS X 10.8
Intel GMA950 and X3100 GPUs will not work correctly, or at all, but most other AMD, Nvidia, and Intel HD graphics should work.
Since the 1.6.0 update, GPUs are untested, and the wrapper is no longer using X11, so it is currently unknown what will not work right.
***Download link is at the bottom of this post***
If your crashing in Earth Space Dock, you need to try lowering down some graphic settings at least temporarily... turning on half resolution usually works while at ESD, maybe turning off other graphics settings... annoying I know...
Bajoran Fire Caves
Weird graphics bug here, that turns the screen gray. How to fix it? Set your graphics setting off of custom settings and set it down to bare minimum low settings... then you should be able to see everything. You can then turn all your graphics settings back up and it should remain fine while your there...
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Click here to get STO Unofficial Mac Version 1.5.1 (Uses X11)
Click here to get STO Unofficial Mac Version 1.6.0 (Uses experimental Wine Mac Driver)
(Direct download links hosted through Dropbox.com)
The download comes with directions on how to use this wrapper
double click the .zip file to unzip it, it will give you a folder with the wrapper, and directions.
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Backup Download Link at Mediafire-->All STO UMV versions made are available here
***MAJOR NOTE!
If you have mouse movement and click issues, and /or typing issues, try this...
What the heck is the Unofficial Mac version?
Its a mac .app you can put the Windows version inside of, and run it on Mac OS X without having to install or use Windows! The final product looks and works like a normal Mac .app (for the most part). This download is a "wrapper" not the full game. You will have to either copy your installed version from Windows inside of it (fastest), or reinstall the game into it and do full patching and everything... More specifically, it is a Wineskin wrapper.
just a big note...
This is not made by or supported in any way by Cryptic Studios, Perfect World, or anyone associated with them... this is entirely fan made
System Requirements are the same as Windows version, since it uses the Windows version
It runs on Mac OS X 10.6, OS X 10.7, and OS X 10.8
Intel GMA950 and X3100 GPUs will not work correctly, or at all, but most other AMD, Nvidia, and Intel HD graphics should work.
Since the 1.6.0 update, GPUs are untested, and the wrapper is no longer using X11, so it is currently unknown what will not work right.
***Download link is at the bottom of this post***
If your crashing in Earth Space Dock, you need to try lowering down some graphic settings at least temporarily... turning on half resolution usually works while at ESD, maybe turning off other graphics settings... annoying I know...
Bajoran Fire Caves
Weird graphics bug here, that turns the screen gray. How to fix it? Set your graphics setting off of custom settings and set it down to bare minimum low settings... then you should be able to see everything. You can then turn all your graphics settings back up and it should remain fine while your there...
******************************************
Click here to get STO Unofficial Mac Version 1.5.1 (Uses X11)
Click here to get STO Unofficial Mac Version 1.6.0 (Uses experimental Wine Mac Driver)
(Direct download links hosted through Dropbox.com)
The download comes with directions on how to use this wrapper
double click the .zip file to unzip it, it will give you a folder with the wrapper, and directions.
******************************************
Backup Download Link at Mediafire-->All STO UMV versions made are available here
***MAJOR NOTE!
If you have mouse movement and click issues, and /or typing issues, try this...
- Open the launcher.
- Click on Options on the top right.
- In Advanced command line, enter the following:
- -enablerawinputsupport 0
- Click OK and launch the game as usual.
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Space, however, works perfectly fine!
I would appreciate some help! Thanks
System specs? Not sure what that would be off the top of my head.
First of all, I just wanted to thank you for making STO work on OSX. I appreciate all the work you've put into it.
My problem I'm having is that STO crashes at random. Sometimes it'll go for a long time without crashing, and other times it'll just keep crashing over and over again. I never know when it's going to crash.
For the past few days (since Sunday, 9 Sep), I've been completely unable to log in at all. I click on STO, it tries to boot up, and then nothing; just a blank black screen (where the mouse cursor turns into an X) with a blank white rectangular area in the upper left corner of the screen where the log-in fields are supposed to be (where you enter your username & password). Since I'm unable to go any further than that, I just press "Esc" and that usually shuts it down. If that doesn't work and it's completely unresponsive to any controls, I have to shut my Mac down completely and re-start it.
I'm using a 2008 24" iMac running 10.8.1 Mountain Lion, with a 2.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and 4 GB of 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. It's an older iMac, but it still works fine and can play STO with Wineskin (when it's not crashing). But now I can't even get into STO at all.
Do you know if Cryptic might have made any recent changes to STO that may have caused it to break compatibility with Wineskin? Or is there a newer build of Wineskin that I need to download in order for it to work again? Any help you could provide I would greatly appreciate.
Thanks in advance...
a history of sto pvp: 2010 - 2011
a history of sto pvp: 2012 - 2013
its using a test version of Wineskin 2.5.7 which has some bug fixes over the previous version, making things a bit more stable. Most of my time went into making a new version of WineskinX11 built in, which fixes many issues... which in STO, so far has helped going in and out of fullscreen not freezing the graphics up nearly as often on many machines, and allowing it to work without having to use Override->Fullscreen setting in Wineskin, so things just work auto and you can set all the resolution stuff in game, and the launcher window is really a window and not fullscreen yet... And its easier now to just hit Cmd+Enter to toggle fullscreen instead of Cmd+Opt+A.
I've got an older i mac. 2GB ram, ATI Radeon x1600.
well, you can try doing the GLSL thing set to off thats listed in the directions... but the X1600 is notorious for graphics problems. I had one before and even many Mac native games wouldn't run without graphics problems. I think some of the problems got fixed in 10.6 and then a few more in 10.7... but still was always buggy, so I'm not sure if there is a fix.
Great! That seems to have worked. Thanks!
what kind of error? typing what?
Logs after test run:
LastRunX11: http://d.pr/f/cHsC
LastRunWine: http://d.pr/f/YnIX
Any ideas?
Thanks
Edit: Logs after restart (different output, but same problem it seems):
LastRunX11: http://d.pr/f/X9L9
LastRunWine: http://d.pr/f/QLMA
I'm having exactly the same issue, 2010 Mac Pro with a 5770.
2011 iMac 27" with a 6970M here.
WHAT CAN I DO?!:(
Mountain lion would put you on 10.8.2, which is what everyone else is having problems with.
Same as me. I had no trouble with the 1.3.1 wrapper I had been using in 10.8.1, and am patching under the new wrapper now in 10.8.2.
When I tried running the game with the 1.3.1 wrapper in 10.8.2 I never got past the login/launcher.
I'll let you know how it goes after I patch.
Too late :-/ Odd though, that something this fundamental would change in 1 point release.
What can I/we do to help fix it?
Incidentally, other 3D games I play work just fine (those that don't use Wine).
Edit 1: if this is down to Apple, has this been reported to Apple as a bug yet?
Edit 2: it does appear that the AMD/ATI driver has been updated in 10.8.2 (but not the NVidia driver). Oddly, people are reporting that it supports OpenGL extensions that were not supported before - so in theory I guess it should be better, if it worked..
Would be great if Cryptic/Perfect World finally stepped their game up and threw some $ at developing a os 10 version of the game.
Apple's market share of new computers is off the charts so I don't understand why they aren't as they look for new subscribers.
That said I won't be able to play until Cryptic/PW step their game up, or until this is fixed.
Standing by....
I'm not convinced an OS X "native" client wouldn't suffer this problem, since if there were one it'd most likely be based on Cider or some other Wine based/related tool. Does EVE online still work?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4545033
In the case of VirtualBox, the author(s) are releasing an update to fix it. We can only hope for the same from WineHQ.
Count me as having problems with 10.8.2, too. Not good, not good.
officially supported clients are always easier to use and usually less problematic... no matter how they port it. Cider doesn't seem to be having an issue with the update (its a fork off Wine from many years ago so is quite a bit different)... its something either in Wine itself, or with libXplugin for X11 support, which Cider doesn't use, but all other usage of Wine does.
I'd like to know their fix... but VirtualBox actually uses some Wine code for their DirectX handling so it could be the same root problem.
A "native" (read: Cider) client would be amazing. As you know, Cryptic etc. are notoriously tight lipped on the subject. But I did email Transgaming a few months back to suggest they might find a customer if they approach them :-P
Ah interesting. Very interesting. I'd go digging, but as luck would have it my Internet connection went down and I'm currently 3G'ing on my iPad. In two days I've lost STO and my Internet - first world problems hey.
Looks like I am running it under VMware, which means rubber banding and lag. But atleast I can run mu doff missions etc...
Oh and didnt Cryptic say there is no hope for a mac version? That they never intend to put one out. I thought I recall that.