I just want to note for anyone who might be interested that doh's wrapper works smoothly and easily for Champions as well as STO.
To get Champions onto your Mac, launch the installer for STO, login with your account and password, and click on "options." Click on "show all games." This will create a drop-down menu on the launcher that will allow you to select which game you want to patch/play.
Once you use this drop-down menu to select Champions Online, the launcher will begin to download Champions onto your hard disk. Once the download is complete, just click on "Engage" and Champions will launch.
No alteration to anything inside the wrapper is required. You just have to use the Options menu inside Cryptic's launcher to get it to display Champions as an option, along with STO. (It has always had this capability; the option is just turned off by default.) This presumes you do not have CO already installed on a partition or anything else. The download is not very long, however.
Again, my thanks to doh123 for making this wrapper, which lets me run my favorite games without Boot Camp or Windows!
I am a new mac user and I've tried downloading the game from file planet, I can't get my mac to fully unzip the file so when I try to install using the wineskin wrapper, it can't find the .exe file it needs. I'm starting to wonder if my only hope is to get a version of windows and run it that way. I've been trying for 2 days and am just getting frustrated. I first tried to install the original installed program from my old PC. I was able to get through the sign on and the patches but then it I would get an error message from Cryptic and it would crash. My Macbook Pro has an Intel HD graphics card. I'm not sure it's because I'm a mac newbie so I don't know what I'm doing or if there is something wrong. If anyone can help, would love the assist.
I am a new mac user and I've tried downloading the game from file planet, I can't get my mac to fully unzip the file so when I try to install using the wineskin wrapper, it can't find the .exe file it needs. I'm starting to wonder if my only hope is to get a version of windows and run it that way. I've been trying for 2 days and am just getting frustrated. I first tried to install the original installed program from my old PC. I was able to get through the sign on and the patches but then it I would get an error message from Cryptic and it would crash. My Macbook Pro has an Intel HD graphics card. I'm not sure it's because I'm a mac newbie so I don't know what I'm doing or if there is something wrong. If anyone can help, would love the assist.
if you cannot get the download to unzip right, then there is either something wrong with the download itself being corrupted, or with your system for not being able to unzip it. Theres little I can do to help that, you may have to try downloading it again.
if you cannot get the download to unzip right, then there is either something wrong with the download itself being corrupted, or with your system for not being able to unzip it. Theres little I can do to help that, you may have to try downloading it again.
Hey, thanks for the quick reply and your patience with me. You were right, for some reason my earlier download was missing the .exe file or I might have deleted by accident. I re-downloaded and it unzipped fine. I set up it up with the recommended settings and tried to run. I was able to get to the logon screen, the Cryptic "loading" screen and finally to the Starfleet Delta "Loading" screen. After about 5 minutes, it crashes. So, I made some progress but didn't get to the game.
Hey, thanks for the quick reply and your patience with me. You were right, for some reason my earlier download was missing the .exe file or I might have deleted by accident. I re-downloaded and it unzipped fine. I set up it up with the recommended settings and tried to run. I was able to get to the logon screen, the Cryptic "loading" screen and finally to the Starfleet Delta "Loading" screen. After about 5 minutes, it crashes. So, I made some progress but didn't get to the game.
I figured out my problem. Part of it is just my lack of familiarity with Apple and the other half is just not fully reading our instructions and VERY helpful hints. Thank you so much for writing this wrapper. It seems to run better on my Macbook than it did on Windows but haven't run it through it's paces yet. Thank you again!:)
well this forced changed over to a PW account makes things confusing... I just see everyone as archived users now in the post... hopefully this post still works.
I just see everyone as archived users now in the post
It's a Borg thing.
Anyway yes I too noticed that. I suppose it happens to the ones who've not yet completed the account merge. I just completed mine and was able to pick up my old forum handle. Since you're the real doh, chances are that you're not a fake doh.
Now on with the show... any news on the STO wrapper concerning the launch of Mountain Lion on the 19th next month?
"I never met a chocolate I didn't like"
Old forum user name: iSpot
Old forum join date: August 2008
Old forum post count: Somewhat higher
Lifer
Anyway yes I too noticed that. I suppose it happens to the ones who've not yet completed the account merge. I just completed mine and was able to pick up my old forum handle. Since you're the real doh, chances are that you're not a fake doh.
Now on with the show... any news on the STO wrapper concerning the launch of Mountain Lion on the 19th next month?
It shouldn't affect anything... I haven't tested STO, but Wineskin itself still works.
It shouldn't affect anything... I haven't tested STO, but Wineskin itself still works.
Great. I was merely thinking along the lines of graphics driver updates that might be included with Mountain Lion. Looking forward to test the game once the new OS version is live in just under four weeks...
(off topic: the forum post count is way off... and the forum join dates here do not quite correspond with our "real" join dates either... and this quote from my forum control panel was rather amusing: "You last visited: 12-31-1969 at 04:00 PM". But at least I found the option to enable the lifetime forum title. That's something.)
"I never met a chocolate I didn't like"
Old forum user name: iSpot
Old forum join date: August 2008
Old forum post count: Somewhat higher
Lifer
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them." -Thomas Marrone
I'm not sure which of the recent wrapper updates did it, but I'm no longer experiencing any of the crashes related to resolution switches or video quality settings and the weird keybind issues I was having since launch are gone. The game feels more responsive now at higher settings, too.
Please forgive me if this was covered. I haven't seen anything in the last few pages of this thread about this and the search on the new forums is not helping.
Anyone else still able to log into Tribble? It worked about 2 weeks ago but it crashes my Macbook Air every time I try now. Either it crashes while showing the Fed Logo "Loading" screen, or it shows a whirlwind of rainbow colors. I've tried tweaking my display settings but after about 8 reboots, I've given up for the night. Any thoughts?
Please forgive me if this was covered. I haven't seen anything in the last few pages of this thread about this and the search on the new forums is not helping.
Anyone else still able to log into Tribble? It worked about 2 weeks ago but it crashes my Macbook Air every time I try now. Either it crashes while showing the Fed Logo "Loading" screen, or it shows a whirlwind of rainbow colors. I've tried tweaking my display settings but after about 8 reboots, I've given up for the night. Any thoughts?
I should have come back and updated sooner. It started working for me again, but I'm not sure what fixed it. There was a patch to Tribble (last week of June) the same day I tried starting in Safe Mode. I haven't had a problem since, and I don't even have to run in Safe Mode anymore. So I have no idea if it was Safe Mode or the patch to Tribble that fixed whatever issue I was having. I hope it resolves for you, as there are rewards for being on Tribble this weekend.
ok i have spent a lot of time getting this game to work on my mac book pro, when i start the game the video is has some static. is their anyway to clean that up?
I've been using the wrapper since you created it. However, I'm still using 1.3.0. I'd like to upgrade, but I'd like to do it without having to download the entire game again. I am correctly copying the Crytpic Studios folder. Yet, when I launch the game and login, it starts downloading a 4 GB patch. But, when I put the Cryptic Studios folder back in the old wrapper, it launches just fine with the latest Season 6. What could be causing this?
ok i have spent a lot of time getting this game to work on my mac book pro, when i start the game the video is has some static. is their anyway to clean that up?
not sure what you mean by static... but i'd just play with the in game graphics options.
I've been using the wrapper since you created it. However, I'm still using 1.3.0. I'd like to upgrade, but I'd like to do it without having to download the entire game again. I am correctly copying the Crytpic Studios folder. Yet, when I launch the game and login, it starts downloading a 4 GB patch. But, when I put the Cryptic Studios folder back in the old wrapper, it launches just fine with the latest Season 6. What could be causing this?
Is it really downloading 4GB? Sometimes it'll do a full file check and start acting like its downloading a ton, but it flies through it as it checks files and doesn't really download anything.
my game is getting buggy and crashes after a couple of missions, i have played around with the graphics settings and have lowered them as much as i can. but if i go any lower the game will look like TRIBBLE, any suggestions?
Damn, I was hoping to play this with my friend today
The GMA 950 is really a horrid little thing... even after that was the GMA X3100 which isn't much better, then they started making the GPU built int the CPU instead of the Chipset. That was a great improvement, leading to the Intel HD series. The current Intel HD 3000 and 4000s that have been used in Macs are really nice for low end Intel graphics and can run this ok... but I think anything older than the Intel HD 3000 just isn't physically capable of some of the requirements. Intel designed the GMA series around the idea that not everyone wants to buy a GPU if all they do is run simple things like MS Word and Excel and web browsers... so its a bare minimum design with no intentions of games
Hi. Ive been using the wrapper for quite a few months now and its been working fine, but lately i have a hell of a time getting in so i deleted the wrapper and files. I got my files before from the cryptic download, but it was working fine, and now its not. I used a pc to download the files from file planet and put them on my flash drive. but now when i select "choose setup Executable I cant select my files from file planet. Any help would be soooo appreciated, cause i already miss sto
Hi. Ive been using the wrapper for quite a few months now and its been working fine, but lately i have a hell of a time getting in so i deleted the wrapper and files. I got my files before from the cryptic download, but it was working fine, and now its not. I used a pc to download the files from file planet and put them on my flash drive. but now when i select "choose setup Executable I cant select my files from file planet. Any help would be soooo appreciated, cause i already miss sto
choose setup executable gives you full access to everything.. you just have to browse through and find it. I'm not sure how to help... you should be able to click on the flash drive and see the files to run. SOmetimes certain programs don't like to run off flash drives though, so you may want to copy the whole game installation files over to your main drive and then install from there.
not sure what you mean by static... but i'd just play with the in game graphics options.
Is it really downloading 4GB? Sometimes it'll do a full file check and start acting like its downloading a ton, but it flies through it as it checks files and doesn't really download anything.
Yes, it's downloading a 4GB patch. It's not simply checking files. It's downloading.
This seems really cool so I will try it out. I began playing STO when it released its F2P version. I am about level 25 now. I got a new Macbook Pro and was saddened to find out that I could not download the regular client.
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I am a new mac user and I've tried downloading the game from file planet, I can't get my mac to fully unzip the file so when I try to install using the wineskin wrapper, it can't find the .exe file it needs. I'm starting to wonder if my only hope is to get a version of windows and run it that way. I've been trying for 2 days and am just getting frustrated. I first tried to install the original installed program from my old PC. I was able to get through the sign on and the patches but then it I would get an error message from Cryptic and it would crash. My Macbook Pro has an Intel HD graphics card. I'm not sure it's because I'm a mac newbie so I don't know what I'm doing or if there is something wrong. If anyone can help, would love the assist.
if you cannot get the download to unzip right, then there is either something wrong with the download itself being corrupted, or with your system for not being able to unzip it. Theres little I can do to help that, you may have to try downloading it again.
I figured out my problem. Part of it is just my lack of familiarity with Apple and the other half is just not fully reading our instructions and VERY helpful hints. Thank you so much for writing this wrapper. It seems to run better on my Macbook than it did on Windows but haven't run it through it's paces yet. Thank you again!:)
It's a Borg thing.
Anyway yes I too noticed that. I suppose it happens to the ones who've not yet completed the account merge. I just completed mine and was able to pick up my old forum handle. Since you're the real doh, chances are that you're not a fake doh.
Now on with the show... any news on the STO wrapper concerning the launch of Mountain Lion on the 19th next month?
Old forum user name: iSpot
Old forum join date: August 2008
Old forum post count: Somewhat higher
Lifer
It shouldn't affect anything... I haven't tested STO, but Wineskin itself still works.
Great. I was merely thinking along the lines of graphics driver updates that might be included with Mountain Lion. Looking forward to test the game once the new OS version is live in just under four weeks...
(off topic: the forum post count is way off... and the forum join dates here do not quite correspond with our "real" join dates either... and this quote from my forum control panel was rather amusing: "You last visited: 12-31-1969 at 04:00 PM". But at least I found the option to enable the lifetime forum title. That's something.)
Old forum user name: iSpot
Old forum join date: August 2008
Old forum post count: Somewhat higher
Lifer
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
no idea... try it and see what happens.
+1!
Anyone else still able to log into Tribble? It worked about 2 weeks ago but it crashes my Macbook Air every time I try now. Either it crashes while showing the Fed Logo "Loading" screen, or it shows a whirlwind of rainbow colors. I've tried tweaking my display settings but after about 8 reboots, I've given up for the night. Any thoughts?
Same thing is happening to me...
Is it really downloading 4GB? Sometimes it'll do a full file check and start acting like its downloading a ton, but it flies through it as it checks files and doesn't really download anything.
I seriously doubt its capable.
Damn, I was hoping to play this with my friend today
The GMA 950 is really a horrid little thing... even after that was the GMA X3100 which isn't much better, then they started making the GPU built int the CPU instead of the Chipset. That was a great improvement, leading to the Intel HD series. The current Intel HD 3000 and 4000s that have been used in Macs are really nice for low end Intel graphics and can run this ok... but I think anything older than the Intel HD 3000 just isn't physically capable of some of the requirements. Intel designed the GMA series around the idea that not everyone wants to buy a GPU if all they do is run simple things like MS Word and Excel and web browsers... so its a bare minimum design with no intentions of games
choose setup executable gives you full access to everything.. you just have to browse through and find it. I'm not sure how to help... you should be able to click on the flash drive and see the files to run. SOmetimes certain programs don't like to run off flash drives though, so you may want to copy the whole game installation files over to your main drive and then install from there.
Yes, it's downloading a 4GB patch. It's not simply checking files. It's downloading.
I may try this on an external hard drive today. If I do, I'll post again with my results..
works the same as Lion
Fantastic. Thanks :-)