Neep help with Mac PLEASE

[Striiker]

Originally Posted by Mcbard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Parallels is for you my friend.

I have parallels. It's great for running Windows apps on my Macbook Pro (something necessary for the work I do). I have repeatedly run into an issue when running EQ under parallels. When I am looking around with the mouse, there is an odd behavior when I do a mouselook up or down.. It jumps to full up or full down. This does not happen if I click and hold the mouse button and then move the mouse. If however I am moving the mouse and then click to use mouselook, the view jumps as described. I have never been able to resolve this (now running Parallels 6 on Windows 7). It would be great to be able to play EQ without having to exit the Mac OS to my bootcamp partition. Have you (or anyone else) had luck playing EQ in Parallels? Do you have this issue with mouselook? I'd love some help.

[Striiker]

Originally Posted by Neaena [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

follow these easy to use steps to play teh box

1. pick up baseball bat
2. repeatedly swing bat @ mac
3. throw pieces of mac into trash
4. go buy or build a real computer
5. download box and have fun!

I was never a fan of the Mac prior to OSX and the adoption of Intel chips. I have come to truly appreciate the design and quality of the hardware and operating system after moving to it as my platform of choice. I never understood why people get so worked up against Macs. I had spent the past 20 years (almost) building my own systems, geared up for gaming.. Back in the Quake days I bought the Monster 3D accelerator card and afterwards, the Monster II cards in SLI and put them in systems I designed and assembled myself and always kept upgrading my systems as new technology rolled out so I have a long history with the PC. I gave the Mac a try and came to appreciate many aspects of it. I'm quite happy that I can play EQ on such a terrific system.

[loopholbrook]

Originally Posted by corradojeff [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Loop, look at my post. I now have EQ running on MAC OSX very well using a version of wine called "CrossOver Games". It is VERY easy to set up. Let me know if you have any questions or issues with it.

Thank you very much, but I already have it installed, the problem I have is bypassing the patch. Still, thanks for trying to help I truly appreciate it.

[Mcbard]

Originally Posted by Striiker [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have parallels. It's great for running Windows apps on my Macbook Pro (something necessary for the work I do). I have repeatedly run into an issue when running EQ under parallels. When I am looking around with the mouse, there is an odd behavior when I do a mouselook up or down.. It jumps to full up or full down. This does not happen if I click and hold the mouse button and then move the mouse. If however I am moving the mouse and then click to use mouselook, the view jumps as described. I have never been able to resolve this (now running Parallels 6 on Windows 7). It would be great to be able to play EQ without having to exit the Mac OS to my bootcamp partition. Have you (or anyone else) had luck playing EQ in Parallels? Do you have this issue with mouselook? I'd love some help.

I have no problems whatsoever running EQ in parallels. I used to have strange mouse issues when I first got parallels, but it was nothing I couldn't fix by making sure smart mouse was enabled and tweaking in game/windows mouse settings.

[Mcbard]

Originally Posted by loopholbrook [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think there's something up with wine on my computer because it all has worked swimmingly except for every part that has to do with wine.
The second step terminal says "-bash: wine: command not found"
I guess I'll redownload it and see if that helps if not, I shan't edit this post and you'll see that wine is messed up. If wine is indeed messed up, I'll just run vmwarefusion or something similar, unless you have one more magic trick up your sleeve. I appreciate all the help that you have done and I need to find a way to repay you, so if there is ever anything you need, I'll try my best to help.
Also, I saw that your Bruins won, congratz.

This is going to sound stupid, but are you even installing wine? You should get ahold of the source, ./configure, make, and make install.

Edit:
http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/Installing
http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/Building

[loopholbrook]

Originally Posted by Mcbard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is going to sound stupid, but are you even installing wine? You should get ahold of the source, ./configure, make, and make install.

Edit:
http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/Installing
http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/Building

Haha, yes, I definitely have wine installed. I don't know, I'll either wait until August until I build my gaming PC, or I'll get a cracked Parallels.
Thanks for everyone trying to help, I wish I knew what was wrong, all of you had several ways to help with my problem.

[Striiker]

Originally Posted by Mcbard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have no problems whatsoever running EQ in parallels. I used to have strange mouse issues when I first got parallels, but it was nothing I couldn't fix by making sure smart mouse was enabled and tweaking in game/windows mouse settings.

Odd. I have smartmouse enabled.. The mouse tracks around quite fine in all other respects. The only issue which ever happens is when engaging mouselook while moving the mouse.. I'll have to play around with the settings some more.. Thanks!

[corradojeff]

Originally Posted by loopholbrook [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thank you very much, but I already have it installed, the problem I have is bypassing the patch. Still, thanks for trying to help I truly appreciate it.

I guess you didn't read my whole post. The section you should have read out of that post is this

"With CrossOver open click on the "programs" menu and click "run command" browse to eqgame.exe and double click it. It should show up in the "command" line now. at the end of the file path (After the "" marks) add patchme then click run. BAM! it worked."

[loopholbrook]

Originally Posted by corradojeff [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I guess you didn't read my whole post. The section you should have read out of that post is this

"With CrossOver open click on the "programs" menu and click "run command" browse to eqgame.exe and double click it. It should show up in the "command" line now. at the end of the file path (After the "" marks) add patchme then click run. BAM! it worked."

bumping from the pits of hell. So I did all that and I got to the log in page and everything I do says operation time out...

[neverquest]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Easy Solution: Don't use Mac.

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