Help with EQ install on Mac!
Hello. I have read many guides and posts here but I still seem to not quite have all the right ingredients together. I followed Phobus' post and he has graciously responded to quite a few of my PMs while trying to configure everything. I decided to make these questions public so that maybe I can get EQ working through a collective of knowledge.
I have installed EQ 2x following Phobus' guide. Both times have resulted with the same black windowed 1999 screen which eventually sports a pink rectangular box in the top of my screen with a crude-white EULA lettering but I am unable to do anything from there but quit the program. Installation Comment: Computer: Macbook Pro DuoCore w/ 2 gigs of ram and a GMA 950 video card. I was able to get it working great on the EQ Mac server. I meticulously followed Phobus' guide. The first time I installed the game, before starting over I attempted to use "Druxa's All in one set up" to see if it might resolve anything I missed. It still didn't allow me to play but I did notice upon looking in the P99 folder that there was an EQEmu file that had previously not been there. There is not one there now as well. Though I have and EQEmu forum PW/acc and Login Server PW/acc I am still unsure what exactly to download or how to go about it. I'm probably overlooking something obvious but I'm hoping someone can help me since I am in no way program or code techy when it comes to computers. Thanks for your time and comments. :) |
Well this one is easier than most of the mac stuff.
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This is from the FAQ, and while you don't have that error message, I am fairly certain it is the same issue.
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I pasted Phobus' code into text edit, made it plain text, and then named it eqclient.ini as the instructions said. [Defaults] WindowedModeXOffset=1 WindowedModeYOffset=1 WindowedMode=TRUE [VideoMode] Width=1024 Height=768 WidthWindowed=1024 HeightWindowed=768 WindowedWidth=1024 WindowedHeight=768 FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32 FullscreenRefreshRate=0 I afterwards changed the monitor size to 1400x800 due to my resolution but it get the same black screen with the freaky looking EULA. I will try 800x600 but I think it's just going to make the same screen smaller. My problem seems to be of a graphical nature. And I don't think I have the EQ Emulator properly or at all. That's the one part I am totally clueless about. I don't know what I'm suppose to download or install for the EQEmu to work. Thx |
Ok I just discovered something. Upon going back into my eqclient.ini I discovered this:
[Defaults] WindowedModeXOffset=1 WindowedModeYOffset=1 WindowedMode=TRUE Sound=TRUE TextureQuality=1 VertexShaders=TRUE 20PixelShaders=TRUE 14PixelShaders=TRUE 1xPixelShaders=TRUE MultiPassLighting=FALSE UseLitBatches=TRUE [VideoMode] Width=1400 Height=800 WidthWindowed=1400 HeightWindowed=800 WindowedWidth=1400 WindowedHeight=800 FullscreenBitsPerPixel=32 FullscreenRefreshRate=0 These lines were originally in the eqclient.ini upon a fresh install but I overwrote them with the info from Phobus' post. However, it appears they have been rewritten. I know Phobus said that it'a a bare bones "ini' and that once you launch EQ it will write the remaining "ini" but I think this is cause a conflict maybe. Does this look correct? Sound=TRUE TextureQuality=1 VertexShaders=TRUE 20PixelShaders=TRUE 14PixelShaders=TRUE 1xPixelShaders=TRUE MultiPassLighting=FALSE UseLitBatches=TRUE |
The EQemu launcher doesn't work with P99 anymore. So that is your issue.
You need your shortcut or whatever it's called on a Mac to go to the executable. So as soon as my new Mac support guy gets unbusy, I know he will be able to help. In the mean time, if you can figure out how to make these instructions work on your mac you'll get in game. Quote:
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ok, confirmed. This is being rewritten each time. Not sure if it's suppose to be there but I just erased and saved, and then tried restarting 1999 with the 1999App and it was there.
Sound=TRUE TextureQuality=1 VertexShaders=TRUE 20PixelShaders=TRUE 14PixelShaders=TRUE 1xPixelShaders=TRUE MultiPassLighting=FALSE UseLitBatches=TRUE |
The windowed mode stuff is still there right? It's just adding the sound, etc?
It's actually a good sign. |
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When I right click I don't get "create shortcut" that's a PC thing right? Since I have that .bat file I will try and follow up on getting it to work. Thanks |
When you send him the PM, tell him to update his guide p~
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