ss13 wine

[Sundance]

So my computer just shat itself and gave me a BSOD.
It's so fucking old and nobody in the family are arsed to fix it, we're getting a computer from a family friend in the meantime.

In the current meantime however, I'd like to set-up my ss13 on my Mac, but I have no idea how to do it. I know of wine, but that's about it. Google shows me very little.

Could anyone give me some pointers?
My mac is 10.5.8, 2.4 Ghz intel core 2 duo, 2gb memory. If you are a computer whizz, you'll probably notice my mac is quite crap too.

[Tteckk]

My cellphone's got more power then your Mac.

[Sundance]

My cellphone's got more power then your Mac.

[Weavel]

I heard Marquesas got it working on Wine so hopefully he'll pop in to let us know.

[Shoddy]

if you still have a copy of your windows disk i think you can use Bootcamp to run windows programs without wine and shit.

from what i heard that may work.

Hope that helped.

[Kaet]

You could set up a virtual machine with VMware. Run windows in it and it should work.
Though you would be running windows in osx so I'm not sure how well your mac will handle it.

[Sundance]

if you still have a copy of your windows disk i think you can use Bootcamp to run windows programs without wine and shit.

from what i heard that may work.

Hope that helped.

I don't. Thanks for the suggestion though!

You could set up a virtual machine with VMware. Run windows in it and it should work.
Though you would be running windows in osx so I'm not sure how well your mac will handle it.

Hmm. Vmware Fusion looks rad as heck, and easy to use. Will further investigate and torr-, err, buy it.

[Wydamn]

I use Ubuntu, so this may not work as well for you, but here's what I do.

First install wine. I find the latest wine 1.5 dev or 1.6 pre-release works just fine. Before you run wine for the first time, make sure you use a 32 bit wine folder with this command line argument:

Code:

export WINEARCH=win32

If you forget to make it 32 bit, ie8 will not install and byond will be much crappier than normal. If you already made a 64 bit wine folder, delete or rename it and then start over again with the above command before running anything else in wine. It might just be simpler to install the 32/i686 bit version of wine for Mac OS X.

Then use winetricks to download some dlls: mfc42, wsh57, and ie8. You'll probably be able to copy and paste it into the command line like this:

Code:

winetricks mfc42 wsh57 ie8

You may see a few EULA's for the installers pop up on your screen. ie8's installer will ask you if you want to allow usage statistics and if you want to include updates in your new install. Select no to both since it doesn't play nice with wine. Also ie8 will flip its shit if you forgot to make wine 32 bit.
Now you should be able to run the byond installer.

It's really not that difficult, but I notice that possibly due to some weirdness of byond and also wine, it's very fidgety. Some people find that byond will run smoother with hardware acceleration disabled in byond's settings; I find it actually runs much worse and I'm on intel graphics.

And as I said before, I use Ubuntu and not Mac OS X so I don't know how well this translates, but I'm assuming it's almost the exact same process.

[atomic1fire]

I've used playonlinux with success before, so you could try playonmac.com

You'll still need the proper libraries to run byond in wine, but it makes wine a bit easier in my experience with a little bit of overhead.

[atomic1fire]

Doublepost:

You could buy a windows license and just run bootcamp with a windows partition for games.

I don't know how old your mac is, but if you can run bootcamp, it could work.

[VictorMAngoStein]

I'm also using a mac (I'm on vacation with a macbook) and would like to know how to run this in WINE too. I can't try vmware or bootcamp because my windows disk isn't around and it would probably run slow as fuck anyway.

[Sitoutumaton]

Spoiler!

But seriously now I hope you guys can find a working solution, summer isn't just the same without 2d spacemen.

[Wydamn]

atomic1fire is right about playonlinux, it's very handy for testing with different versions of wine installed in different bottles, and is pretty much just gui based with wizards for everything.

[VictorMAngoStein]

Currently running playonmac with wine 1.5.20, ss13 client runs and audio works (I could hear "game over yeah!") but all the graphics (except the chatbox) are black and I'm getting and "Invalid drawable" error.

[VictorMAngoStein]

Update: after downloading and installing mfc42, vcrun6, and wsh57 I can see the game but the framerate is slow as fuck. Enabling graphics hardware in byond preferences makes the display window completely white. Disabling "download sounds" does not improve performance.