I haven't had a chance to even check STO.. I haven't played in game in a week and a half... between a job, being a full time grad student, and more... I really haven't had a chance.
I do not know if it works with F2P or not.
Cryptic killed the Torrent download... so as far as I know, if you want the game right now digitally downloaded, you have to download on an actual Windows OS (Windows computer, Windows in a Virtual Machine, or installed with Bootcamp) and have it download the actual game with their downloader program. Once that downloads the game, you should have all the installation files (just like the contents of the Disc if you bought the disc version) and you can copy all the downloaded stuff to your OSX and install in the wrapper from that.
I've just stumbled upon this project after unsuccessfully trying to get STO to run in the latest version of Parallels.
I've followed your instructions and used the STO i downloaded through Parallels and put it inside the package contents/driver c/program files.
After launching the program and logging in the screen is stuck on the star fleet badge loading screen.....I've read through some of the thread and saw you mention something about GLSL causing this type of problem?
I'm on a late 2008 Macbook Pro (OS 10.7.2) with a Nvidia 9400m and Nvidia 9600 discrete. I am trying to run the game on the 9400m but keep getting stuck on that loading screen.
Any suggestions on what I should try to do?
Thanks for your time!
PS: I forgot to mention that I also receive the unsupported graphics card dected message.
^^^^^ This is almost exactly what I did and almost exactly the problem I'm having, too. It hangs on the logo "Loading" screen but it eventually crashes with an Official Cryptic Oops Error. Mine's a mid-2010 rev with the GeForce GT 330M. doh123, I've used wineskin for a bunch of other stuff, thanks a lot for writing it! I hope that you have a chance to take a look at the update and see if the STO skin can be updated.
It works. I just patched my client and logged in. The game runs without issues of any kind.
Cryptic killed the Torrent download... so as far as I know, if you want the game right now digitally downloaded, you have to download on an actual Windows OS (Windows computer, Windows in a Virtual Machine, or installed with Bootcamp) and have it download the actual game with their downloader program. Once that downloads the game, you should have all the installation files (just like the contents of the Disc if you bought the disc version) and you can copy all the downloaded stuff to your OSX and install in the wrapper from that.
This method works if you do not have a previous STO copy that you can patch or if you've never downloaded the game before. However, if you do not have Windows (either on a PC, via a Bootcamp partition or by using Parallels or Fusion), you still have an option. Actually: You have two options.
The other option is to use CrossOver Games. There's a free trial if you don't already have this software. With this you can use the standard downloader from the STO website. The CrossOver team has made some tweaks that detect the .exe file you download from the STO website, and then it'll download the entire game via CrossOver Games. From there you have two options: Play STO via CrossOver Games, or just copy the Cryptic folder from the STO bottle that CrossOver Games has created, and put the entire folder in your Wineskin wrapper. Feel free to have a look at the current CrossOver Games thread on this very issue: http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=6730;forum=1;mhl=115973
Hey not sure if you've answered this one before but, when I load it up it'll patch fine launch fine then the loading screen right after the cryptic logo will freeze then start spazzing out frome black screen to logo, though one time I did hear music, but ultimatly had to restart my computer, also right after I press engage wine tells me there's a problem with my set up and to either play with lowerd settings or not. I'm running OSX 10.6.7 with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
I am sorry I got through about the first twenty pages or so and gave up. I am running osx 10.6.8, i5, GT330m graphics card. I have downloaded the newest fileplanet version of the game, and try installing it on winskin, but after I select the Exe. file wineskin just says its busy for a moment and then goes back to the startup screen. It never actually installs the game.
I have tried it with the wineskin app on the desktop and in the applications folder, Im thinking this might be a location issue? Even if you can just point me in the right direction of some wineskin instruction page with the proper steps I would very much appreciate it.
EDIT- I have now tried putting the wineskin app in the different app folders with the same result. When I drag the exe. file onto the wineskin app the screen goes black and the mouse becomes an outlined X, this happened in every applications folder.
Use the Install Windows Software button to do the install of the full game that was downloaded... if that fails, then go to Advanced->Tools Tab and click to view the last logs it should have created. They might shed some light on what is happening. Also check for messages about it in your Console (in /Applications/Utilities)
Hey all just wanted to first say thanks for making this wine skin!
For anyone having issues where they're stuck at the loading screen here's a fix I found for it.
When you open the launcher click on the options tab at the top of the launcher and then check off Safe Mode. Click OK and then proceed to log in. It will still take about 15-30 seconds to load and the screen will look like the game is frozen but don't exit out and just wait a moment.
Hey all just wanted to first say thanks for making this wine skin!
For anyone having issues where they're stuck at the loading screen here's a fix I found for it.
When you open the launcher click on the options tab at the top of the launcher and then check off Safe Mode. Click OK and then proceed to log in. It will still take about 15-30 seconds to load and the screen will look like the game is frozen but don't exit out and just wait a moment.
For those of you who don't have/want windows, you may be able to use/download this installer, which will install the STO Launcher for you, which can then download the game through the patching system. This is what I finally had to do on Linux/Wine. I see no reason it won't work on OSX/Wine.
Note that the installer did crash when finished, but not until after it had added the link to the launcher, which was late enough in the process for the launcher to run and patch itself and the game.
Use the Install Windows Software button to do the install of the full game that was downloaded... if that fails, then go to Advanced->Tools Tab and click to view the last logs it should have created. They might shed some light on what is happening. Also check for messages about it in your Console (in /Applications/Utilities)
I am sifting through the utilities logs and noticing wineskin is being used in the crossloader app as well. Thats about the only thing I can understand at this point.
I tried looking at the logs but pushing the button does absolutely nothing.
Hey all just wanted to first say thanks for making this wine skin!
For anyone having issues where they're stuck at the loading screen here's a fix I found for it.
When you open the launcher click on the options tab at the top of the launcher and then check off Safe Mode. Click OK and then proceed to log in. It will still take about 15-30 seconds to load and the screen will look like the game is frozen but don't exit out and just wait a moment.
This worked for me, too! It had trouble going to full screen with the alt-cmd-A shortcut, but using the wineskin.app in the Star Trek Online.app package I was also able to change the resolution and it acted perfectly normally. Does make me wish I had a newer macbook with the updated graphics card, though...
I am sifting through the utilities logs and noticing wineskin is being used in the crossloader app as well. Thats about the only thing I can understand at this point.
I tried looking at the logs but pushing the button does absolutely nothing.
what is a crossloader app?
if the logs aren't being made, there is something very wrong with the wrapper you have... maybe its corrupted or something? or something weird with your system... do the Winecfg or Regedit buttons work?
This worked for me, too! It had trouble going to full screen with the alt-cmd-A shortcut, but using the wineskin.app in the Star Trek Online.app package I was also able to change the resolution and it acted perfectly normally. Does make me wish I had a newer macbook with the updated graphics card, though...
Cmd+Opt+A will toggle out of fullscreen mode, and back in... if you did not already have it in a fullscreen mode with Override, or automatic called a fullscreen mode, then the shortcut will do nothing.
Because of weird issues with STO, you really do need to run the override and select the right resolution... its just not going to work well or at all if you do not.. and if you select a resolution that your machine cannot handle right it can mess up as well.
I just wanna say DOH is a great human being for dealing with hundreds of pages of help.
Anyways, the crossloader app is that alternate game service someone just posted, its working with crashes right now, but im already addicted to the game so Il give it the 15 days before trying to work my way through wine skin by itself. Il update in a bit if I get too mad at the crashes. Peace!
I'll try to explain what i did. I tried just wineskin and the download link from the main page but that did not work. So I downloaded the Crossover Trial and when i used wineskin with the link from the main page it started installing.
I'm using the UMV 1.3beta3 wrapper; on a 21.5 inch Intel iMac 2X3.06ghz 8MB of RAM. It loads perfect, but I get the box that asks for what graphic settings you want to use. Launcher loads, patches in the beginning, then it gets to the Delta shield screen saying "loading..." and freezes. Then after a while my monitor starts to flash, i mean the whole monitor; but on a good note.. i did hear the intro music after awhile ^_^
Hey this is probably a stupid question and easy to fix but I cant get the voice chat to work. I see the connection is "coreaudio wavein 0" but I am on a Mac Pro without a built in mic usually my web-cam or little USB sound card work fine but I cant seem to get that input over into the game, I am also playing on a new mac book pro with a built in mic but I have the same issue. Is this fixable?
Hello. Rookie Mac User here and just recently interested to hop on the F2P Star Trek.
Problem is: I've never used a program like Wineskin or Bootcamp to play Window friendly games on a Mac computer(Mac OS X: Version 10.6.8). I've been meaning to, but I'm always worried about the possibility of harming my computer (need it for school, unsure of how certain programs might affect it).
Anywho, back to the main issue.
I downloaded the wrapper from the front page, and have been following the PDF steps. Unsurprisingly, I have been stumped by the transition from the second bullet point (in Wineskin menu that appears, select "Install Windows Software") to the third bullet point (Choose the setup.exe file for the installer ((from wherever you downloaded or the disc in the drive)) and do the normal game installation).
For this step, I assumed that the setup.exe file was the free download link from the Star Trek main site, and downloaded that. So I did so, and now, I am not sure that this is the right thing.
And does this process of assigning the setup.exe file get me the Cryptic Studio Game File? Or do I have to download that somewhere else?
Hey this is probably a stupid question and easy to fix but I cant get the voice chat to work. I see the connection is "coreaudio wavein 0" but I am on a Mac Pro without a built in mic usually my web-cam or little USB sound card work fine but I cant seem to get that input over into the game, I am also playing on a new mac book pro with a built in mic but I have the same issue. Is this fixable?
no idea.. I've never tested or looked at voice chat... i didn't even know the game had voice chat...
Hello. Rookie Mac User here and just recently interested to hop on the F2P Star Trek.
Problem is: I've never used a program like Wineskin or Bootcamp to play Window friendly games on a Mac computer(Mac OS X: Version 10.6.8).
well Wineskin and Bootcamp are nothing alike. Wineskin is a tool to make a Windows program run like a Mac program right on OSX. Bootcamp is just a utility that lets you install Windows on your computer like any other PC... also known as a dual boot.
I downloaded the wrapper from the front page, and have been following the PDF steps. Unsurprisingly, I have been stumped by the transition from the second bullet point (in Wineskin menu that appears, select "Install Windows Software") to the third bullet point (Choose the setup.exe file for the installer ((from wherever you downloaded or the disc in the drive)) and do the normal game installation).
For this step, I assumed that the setup.exe file was the free download link from the Star Trek main site, and downloaded that. So I did so, and now, I am not sure that this is the right thing.
And does this process of assigning the setup.exe file get me the Cryptic Studio Game File? Or do I have to download that somewhere else?
the directions are from before F2P... so they are a bit dated. I haven't found a good way to get the game anymore, but I think if you look back through the last 10 or so posts, people were posting how you can get the game now since they changed it. The main file you can download from the website is NOT the game, it is a program that gets the game for you, and it does NOT work quite right.
Hey this is probably a stupid question and easy to fix but I cant get the voice chat to work. I see the connection is "coreaudio wavein 0" but I am on a Mac Pro without a built in mic usually my web-cam or little USB sound card work fine but I cant seem to get that input over into the game, I am also playing on a new mac book pro with a built in mic but I have the same issue. Is this fixable?
Make sure that the check box "Open Mic" is unchecked and that you have a Push to Talk key bound.
Is there a difference between the Wine Wrapper and Crossover when installing? My games FPS is really low even if the video settings are at the lowest or highest, I am currently using Crossover and I was wondering if installing with the Wine Wrapper would increase some of my FPS.
Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for the Wineskin. Just in case it helps anyone:
My system: Macbook Core2Duo, 4GB Ram, Intel Graphics
1) Downloaded the current installer EXE off the STO download page
2) Installed CrossOver Games Trial, selected the EXE, ran it until it updated all the way
3) Found that CrossOver was a little unstable to actually run STO, so I got the WineSkin
4) Copied the contents of the STO folder to the corresponding STO folder in the WineSkin .app folder
5) Ran the Wineskin app, works great!
Since the launcher was updated I thought of using an older bottle to run the game, especially the first 1.2 beta1 version because I had never problems with that bottle.
So I installed MS .NET 3.0 through the inbuilt WineTricks Installer and then it just works!
And the best thing is that this old bottle doesn´t have such an big memory leak issue (if there is one at all) which means you can play a very long time without crashes at ESD, Qo´noS or DS9 and so on. Haven´t tried that tho, just did an quick run using a Klingon toon to go from Klingon Academy to sector space, back to Qo´noS Fist city and from there to Klingon Academy again, logged off (so no restart of the game) and on with an Starfleet toon at ESD, did go to DS9 and Sierra 39 then logged off and in with Klingon toon again without a crash and no performance issues. The 1.3.1 and .2 would crash as soon as I log off and on with other faction toon.
Hm, so in case you have big problems with ESD, Qo´noS and so, download the old 1.2 version and see if it works. Install .NET 3.0 with WineTricks or manually by running .NET 2.0 setup fist, then 3.0 if the launcher won´t run.
The only negative thing is that you loose few graphics options but you get a much more stable running STO.
EDIT:
I played two and half hour now, did some explore missions and so and then did go back to ESD, no crash, no performance issue, all fine with that old version. Also logged off and on to Klingon toon at Klingon Academy, no crash.
Who do I get help from when it doesn't work? I tried it and even ran a test and it's coming back with fatal errors, but I have no idea what I'm looking at. Would love to try this out on my Mac, but obviously that isn't happening today.
Installing worked after a few tries, or at least seemed to (no errors showing), but then there's nothing that allows me to run it. Instructions say "run Star Trek Online.app". Okay, I open it and it just gives me the "ability" to install it again, nothing to run it. When I go to Advanced and try a test run, it comes up with what appears to be fatal errors.
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I do not know if it works with F2P or not.
Cryptic killed the Torrent download... so as far as I know, if you want the game right now digitally downloaded, you have to download on an actual Windows OS (Windows computer, Windows in a Virtual Machine, or installed with Bootcamp) and have it download the actual game with their downloader program. Once that downloads the game, you should have all the installation files (just like the contents of the Disc if you bought the disc version) and you can copy all the downloaded stuff to your OSX and install in the wrapper from that.
Where am I suppose to put these files in?
There is no STO.exe fil in there just those two folders.
The piggs folder contains these 3 files - bins, bins2, bins3.hogg.
First, thank you for the great work on this Doh!
I've just stumbled upon this project after unsuccessfully trying to get STO to run in the latest version of Parallels.
I've followed your instructions and used the STO i downloaded through Parallels and put it inside the package contents/driver c/program files.
After launching the program and logging in the screen is stuck on the star fleet badge loading screen.....I've read through some of the thread and saw you mention something about GLSL causing this type of problem?
I'm on a late 2008 Macbook Pro (OS 10.7.2) with a Nvidia 9400m and Nvidia 9600 discrete. I am trying to run the game on the 9400m but keep getting stuck on that loading screen.
Any suggestions on what I should try to do?
Thanks for your time!
PS: I forgot to mention that I also receive the unsupported graphics card dected message.
It works. I just patched my client and logged in. The game runs without issues of any kind.
This method works if you do not have a previous STO copy that you can patch or if you've never downloaded the game before. However, if you do not have Windows (either on a PC, via a Bootcamp partition or by using Parallels or Fusion), you still have an option. Actually: You have two options.
There is still a torrent file floating around out there. However I have not verified if it'll work. It is hosted by FilePlanet. Feel free to have a go at it: http://www.fileplanet.com/112326/0/0/0/1/section/Game_Clients
The other option is to use CrossOver Games. There's a free trial if you don't already have this software. With this you can use the standard downloader from the STO website. The CrossOver team has made some tweaks that detect the .exe file you download from the STO website, and then it'll download the entire game via CrossOver Games. From there you have two options: Play STO via CrossOver Games, or just copy the Cryptic folder from the STO bottle that CrossOver Games has created, and put the entire folder in your Wineskin wrapper. Feel free to have a look at the current CrossOver Games thread on this very issue: http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=6730;forum=1;mhl=115973
I have tried it with the wineskin app on the desktop and in the applications folder, Im thinking this might be a location issue? Even if you can just point me in the right direction of some wineskin instruction page with the proper steps I would very much appreciate it.
EDIT- I have now tried putting the wineskin app in the different app folders with the same result. When I drag the exe. file onto the wineskin app the screen goes black and the mouse becomes an outlined X, this happened in every applications folder.
For anyone having issues where they're stuck at the loading screen here's a fix I found for it.
When you open the launcher click on the options tab at the top of the launcher and then check off Safe Mode. Click OK and then proceed to log in. It will still take about 15-30 seconds to load and the screen will look like the game is frozen but don't exit out and just wait a moment.
Thank you!
It's good to hear a response from someone!
Note that the installer did crash when finished, but not until after it had added the link to the launcher, which was late enough in the process for the launcher to run and patch itself and the game.
--arekdorun
I am sifting through the utilities logs and noticing wineskin is being used in the crossloader app as well. Thats about the only thing I can understand at this point.
I tried looking at the logs but pushing the button does absolutely nothing.
This worked for me, too! It had trouble going to full screen with the alt-cmd-A shortcut, but using the wineskin.app in the Star Trek Online.app package I was also able to change the resolution and it acted perfectly normally. Does make me wish I had a newer macbook with the updated graphics card, though...
if the logs aren't being made, there is something very wrong with the wrapper you have... maybe its corrupted or something? or something weird with your system... do the Winecfg or Regedit buttons work?
Cmd+Opt+A will toggle out of fullscreen mode, and back in... if you did not already have it in a fullscreen mode with Override, or automatic called a fullscreen mode, then the shortcut will do nothing.
Because of weird issues with STO, you really do need to run the override and select the right resolution... its just not going to work well or at all if you do not.. and if you select a resolution that your machine cannot handle right it can mess up as well.
Anyways, the crossloader app is that alternate game service someone just posted, its working with crashes right now, but im already addicted to the game so Il give it the 15 days before trying to work my way through wine skin by itself. Il update in a bit if I get too mad at the crashes. Peace!
I'll try to explain what i did. I tried just wineskin and the download link from the main page but that did not work. So I downloaded the Crossover Trial and when i used wineskin with the link from the main page it started installing.
no glitches no problems. thank you!
casual gaming here i come
I'm using the UMV 1.3beta3 wrapper; on a 21.5 inch Intel iMac 2X3.06ghz 8MB of RAM. It loads perfect, but I get the box that asks for what graphic settings you want to use. Launcher loads, patches in the beginning, then it gets to the Delta shield screen saying "loading..." and freezes. Then after a while my monitor starts to flash, i mean the whole monitor; but on a good note.. i did hear the intro music after awhile ^_^
Please advise.
(edit)
all is working. used the Safe mode.
Problem is: I've never used a program like Wineskin or Bootcamp to play Window friendly games on a Mac computer(Mac OS X: Version 10.6.8). I've been meaning to, but I'm always worried about the possibility of harming my computer (need it for school, unsure of how certain programs might affect it).
Anywho, back to the main issue.
I downloaded the wrapper from the front page, and have been following the PDF steps. Unsurprisingly, I have been stumped by the transition from the second bullet point (in Wineskin menu that appears, select "Install Windows Software") to the third bullet point (Choose the setup.exe file for the installer ((from wherever you downloaded or the disc in the drive)) and do the normal game installation).
For this step, I assumed that the setup.exe file was the free download link from the Star Trek main site, and downloaded that. So I did so, and now, I am not sure that this is the right thing.
And does this process of assigning the setup.exe file get me the Cryptic Studio Game File? Or do I have to download that somewhere else?
well Wineskin and Bootcamp are nothing alike. Wineskin is a tool to make a Windows program run like a Mac program right on OSX. Bootcamp is just a utility that lets you install Windows on your computer like any other PC... also known as a dual boot.
the directions are from before F2P... so they are a bit dated. I haven't found a good way to get the game anymore, but I think if you look back through the last 10 or so posts, people were posting how you can get the game now since they changed it. The main file you can download from the website is NOT the game, it is a program that gets the game for you, and it does NOT work quite right.
Good to know it wasn't just me being confused about how computers work this time.
Make sure that the check box "Open Mic" is unchecked and that you have a Push to Talk key bound.
> I looked in the Cryptic Folder and every time I start, the file CrpyticError.exe appears.
> I started my macbook in safe mode and the game launcher actually worked, but because it was in safe mode, I can actually play the game.
> I've also already set "USEGLSL" (or whatever) to "disabled".
And as I've mentioned before, I've been playing the game for almost a week now.....
> I also checked the three logs:
Shutdown Log:
120117 19:11:15 2 MasterControlProgram[1]: Shutting down: C:\src\Core\CrypticLauncher\patcher.c(103)
120123 22:39:30 2 MasterControlProgram[1]: Shutting down: C:\src\Core\CrypticLauncher\patcher.c(103)
Errors Log:
120117 20:08:25 103 [1]: xferrer resetting after apparent hang.
120124 01:00:51 116 [1]: xferrer resetting after apparent hang.
Crash Log:
120117 19:11:15 1 MasterControlProgram[1]: Shutting down: C:\src\Core\CrypticLauncher\patcher.c(103)
120123 22:39:30 1 MasterControlProgram[1]: Shutting down: C:\src\Core\CrypticLauncher\patcher.c(103)
My system: Macbook Core2Duo, 4GB Ram, Intel Graphics
1) Downloaded the current installer EXE off the STO download page
2) Installed CrossOver Games Trial, selected the EXE, ran it until it updated all the way
3) Found that CrossOver was a little unstable to actually run STO, so I got the WineSkin
4) Copied the contents of the STO folder to the corresponding STO folder in the WineSkin .app folder
5) Ran the Wineskin app, works great!
Since the launcher was updated I thought of using an older bottle to run the game, especially the first 1.2 beta1 version because I had never problems with that bottle.
So I installed MS .NET 3.0 through the inbuilt WineTricks Installer and then it just works!
And the best thing is that this old bottle doesn´t have such an big memory leak issue (if there is one at all) which means you can play a very long time without crashes at ESD, Qo´noS or DS9 and so on. Haven´t tried that tho, just did an quick run using a Klingon toon to go from Klingon Academy to sector space, back to Qo´noS Fist city and from there to Klingon Academy again, logged off (so no restart of the game) and on with an Starfleet toon at ESD, did go to DS9 and Sierra 39 then logged off and in with Klingon toon again without a crash and no performance issues. The 1.3.1 and .2 would crash as soon as I log off and on with other faction toon.
Hm, so in case you have big problems with ESD, Qo´noS and so, download the old 1.2 version and see if it works. Install .NET 3.0 with WineTricks or manually by running .NET 2.0 setup fist, then 3.0 if the launcher won´t run.
The only negative thing is that you loose few graphics options but you get a much more stable running STO.
EDIT:
I played two and half hour now, did some explore missions and so and then did go back to ESD, no crash, no performance issue, all fine with that old version. Also logged off and on to Klingon toon at Klingon Academy, no crash.