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kayalidkayalid Member Posts: 3 Arc User
in Windows and General: PC, Network, and Other Technical Issues
I was told that this was also made for Mac. Is this not true, I only see PC, Xbox and PS4.. :(

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  • kpkomedy51#6435 kpkomedy51
    kpkomedy51#6435
         Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    Mac support for Star Trek Online ended around First Contact Day (April 5, 2016).
  • zazelbyzazelby Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited June 2016
    Wait, seriously? Is that why the game will no longer load for me? I thought it was a bug on my end that I came here to ask about (but I decided to read through existing topics first). When was this announced?

    Edit: Oh, I found the announcement. TRIBBLE. Well, I guess I'm done with STO, then. I don't want to stop playing, but there you have it. It was fun while it lasted.

    "It is unthinkable. But such is the nature of villainy, don't you think? To do the unthinkable, to challenge the impossible, to conquer all before you and make destiny your own." - Ghost Widow
  • jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
    You can always try an emulator to run STO. WINE is a pretty popular emulator to run Window games and programs. It is not 100% bullet proof though so tweaking is likely necessary.
  • zazelbyzazelby Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited July 2016
    Yeah, but Wine has severe performance issues when running a game this graphically-intense. I've used it play Champions Online, and I have to turn all the graphic settings all the way down to minimum, otherwise the frame rate drops to single digits (and this is neither an old nor slow computer).... and STO has higher system requirements than CO.

    My only real options are Huge Underperformance (with Wine), Huge Inconvenience (with Boot Camp, having to restart the entire computer every time I'd want to play - on top of actually having to buy and install Windows), Huge Expenditure (buying a second computer just to run one game), or... just don't play anymore.

    Like I said, I don't really want to stop playing (I was really excited about the TOS expansion, which is why I came back), but I don't want to fiddle around with hacks and workarounds, either.

    "It is unthinkable. But such is the nature of villainy, don't you think? To do the unthinkable, to challenge the impossible, to conquer all before you and make destiny your own." - Ghost Widow
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