First try using wine 1.7.22 & 1.6.2, using d3dx9 and steam winetricks, the game opens and displays all 2D content but no 3D. It doesn't crash, though! That's a big step. I tried all of the following winetricks but none of them made a difference: Code: d3dx9_36 w_workaround_wine_bug-22751 corefonts w_workaround_wine_bug-22053 w_workaround_wine_bug-31320 steam d3dx9 msxml3 vcrun2008 vcrun2010 multisampling=disabled orm=backbuffer orm=fbo ao=enabled ddr=gdi glsl=disabled orm=fbo strictdrawordering=enabled videomemorysize=1024 win7 glut ddr=opengl Any devs care to weigh in on what dependencies might be needed?
No advice, sorry (this is definitely unsupported). I will chime in and say that the OS X/Linux versions are very close to being ready. This won't be one of those cases of waiting a year past release or anything. I'm testing a new feature in the OS X version as we speak. Can't make any exact promises at this point (debugging can be a very unpredictable process), but I wanted to reassure you that it's a priority for us (especially for me as the better the Mac version works -- the less I have to use Windows).
I managed to get CE running in WINE with no (To my current knowledge) extra libraries loaded; the only issue I had was using the arrow keys to move the camera which crashed the game. I this fixed by disabling the Steam Overlay. I believe that the only winetrick I have active is setting the sound driver to alsa but I don't think that really matters. I'll check what my WINE version is when I get home but in the mean time could you post your System Info?
Performance wise I have never really had good luck with wine / parallels / virtualbox for gaming. Can't really beat a windows partition.
Keggums: that's interesting... I am using Wineskin 2.6.0 on OS X 10.9.4, which can load a variety of Wine engines. I wouldn't be surprised if it works fine using a locally built wine (thru homebrew). That's happened a few times, where locally built Wine has worked when Wineskin hasn't... Yes, I have Boot Camp and have been playing in that for now, but I pretty much fucking hate Windows beyond belief. I've actually seen Wine have spectacular performance with some games. StarTopia and Spelunky (HD) both work great in Wine. It is obviously different for every program.
my problem is windows xp sp2 can't connect to my wpa2 network because it lacks a driver. I need a way to get the driver from microsoft through my mac partition. otherwise no internet for my windows partition.
Boot Camp 3.2 was the last version that supported XP: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1333 The Boot Camp version you need is linked to what model Mac you have (more specially the year it was made) and which version of OS X you have going. http://support.apple.com/downloads/#macoscomponents
Will I have to wipe my windows partition to install the update? Also, I upgraded my os from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion recently.
no the boot camp downloads are just packs of drivers for the hardware components... "officially" the later boot camps only support windows 7.
