SC4 in a Wrapper for Mac

[Freiluft 6]

Rather desperate to play SC4 again, I downloaded a wine wrapper here and managed to play two cities and even install the latest NAM. So much fun to play again! I had a few black screens on startup, but overall, it was far better than the Mac version: no music, frequent beachballs, the wrong buildings appearing, and finally, nothing at all. Unfortunately, Wine announced that there was an update, which I installed. Now all I get is wildy flickering visual garbage on the screen and an application I can only quit by a forced restart. Then I tried using Wineskin that came in the wrapper itself after control-clicking the contents, but that only brought me to the regional map, but wouldn't load a city, then crashed. Plus, my newly built cities weren't on the region. I've looked for an earlier version of Wine, but with no luck.

 

Running 10.7.5 on a 2010 iMac, 3.96 GB Intel Core i3.

Any thoughts?

[TEG24601 32]

Can you roll back your update?

[Freiluft 6]

I only downloaded Wine a year or so ago so I could install plugins directly without having to unpack them. I found the earliest version of Wine I could safely install, but it would start the installation process for SC4, and then crash. Same thing happens now if I try to start the .exe. I also downloaded a demo of Crossover, but the same thing happened.

[doctorfedora 0]

This is seeming pretty tempting given the difficulties of using a lot of patches and stuff on the native Mac OS version, especially in Mountain Lion. Does the Steam version play nicely with all this?