SC4 via WiNE?

[bluerabbit4210 0]

Has anyone had any luck getting this to work? Maybe it'll run better than aspyr's steaming 'port'. I'm on a macbook running 10.4.11 and i've got the macports build of wine (don't remember the version). Any info on this would be super awesome. edit: k, my wine ver is 1.0.1 edit2: updated to the devel package of wine 1.1.12 gonna try that. according to wine's appdb, sc4 deluxe works better with 1.1.7+

[bwatterud 7]

From what I've heard, SC4 through wine works on Linux, but not on Macs.

[toxicpiano 125]

You can use cider (which is a fork of WINE), however it seems to break if you change the resolution (I did and everything messed up, all black land and that kind of thing).

[bluerabbit4210 0]

cider you say? i'll have to look into that. i was monkeying around with crossover games and the installer was working, so i wasn't about to give up. i figured if i could get it installed with crosssover, than it would work another free-er way... besides, what is crossover if not a fancy gui for a tweaked wine build? thanks, i'll go check out cider...

[toxicpiano 125]

start here:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showforum=36

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=142742

[bluerabbit4210 0]

cider? where is an end user version available? all i can find are the developer resources on the cider website. hm...

i d/l'ed the trial of crossover games, and i got the installer running so it might just be some tweaking of wine that's needed (cause isn't that all that crossover is? a fancy 'package manager' for wine?)

but all of this will happen tomorrow, as its late you see... thanks for the responses so far!

[toxicpiano 125]

In this thread someone posted a tutorial download link:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=142742

[bluerabbit4210 0]

cool, thanks. (sorry about the wierdness in my posts, i wasn't getting any confirmation that my posts were actually being posted, i'm just glad i didn't end up quadruple posting the same thinng

edit: oh, looking at my post count it looks like i did. heh heh, erm...

[jjakucyk 0]

I've tried and not had any luck. Due to issues with Apple's X11 implementation, there's problems with OpenGL in WINE, and that's pretty much required for any game to work on the Mac. Things may be a bit different in 10.4, but it's completely broken in 10.5, which is one place where Crossover Games comes in. I don't know how they modified the WINE codebase to get OpenGL working, but they did, and that's an accomplishment in and of itself. I posted some information on using SC4 through Crossover in this forum, you might check that out.

[bluerabbit4210 0]

Right, i've got it *mostly* working, i think. I'm using cider v1133, it launches allright, but all I get is a blank (black) window with the sc4 mouse pointer and all the sounds (no gfx). Is there something I change in the plist, config, reg etc that will get me around this?

edit: yeah, i've heard the apple's x11 is a bit buggy, esp. in rootless mode. but this cider thing seems to be working surprisingly well. (if only i could see what i was doing now!

edit2: btw, I can;t seem to get the regedit.app stuff working. hm. it looks like this config file needs some tweaking.

edit++:right, using different versions yields different results, but i can't read any of the text. are we just stuck with aspyr's port?

[GoaSkin 2]

If running SC4 makes problems, you should try out Parameters when running the EXE. Toggle bethween the hardware and software graphics driver if you have problems with the graphics. If you do not use hardware acceleration, the game does not become much slower. If the game breaks three seconds after showing the region map, there is a problem with the audio driver run the game with the option -audio:off then!)

[bluerabbit4210 0]

Hey, thanks to all who replied here.  I've finally given up on trying to hack sc4 xp into running natively in os x.  The past couple of days i've been slogging through the headache of trying to partition a terribly fragmented drive with bootcamp assistant (expired beta, no less) in an attempt at dual booting tiger and tinyxp rev09.  So far so good, but the progress has been painfully slow (seeing as i dont have a bootable tiger dvd-- my g4 imac + target disk mode saved the day!)

Thanks again everybody, but I just dont have the patience to hack cider anymore.... 

[Lampala 1]

I don't know what everyone has against the Aspyr port. The game is perfectly playable, nearly all downloadable content works, and t doesn't seem to crash a lot or anything. Why do you even need other programs?

[bluerabbit4210 0]

well then it seems you got lucky!  the aspyr port was playable for me to an extent (approx. 5,000 sims) then the framerate, which was already kinda sh*tty, got really bad.  Yeah downloadable content worked well, but a framerate of 0.5fps is unacceptable, especially considering I'm running a five year old game on a year old computer.     (now i have tinyxp up and running and the difference is night and day, I hadn't realized that even the god mode trees lagged that badly under os x)

PS: I suppose this thread can be locked, if someone's into that sort of thing.  Thanks again ev'rybuddy!

[Hamish 1,369]

Topic locked as per request of the Original Poster

If anyone wants this unlocked again, send me a PM.