HOW-TO: Play Project 1999 on a Mac

[Bagelstein]

Unfortunately I cannot get this to work at all on my Macbook Air. Opening the Project 1999 application makes my gamma change briefly but then nothing opens. The application appears in the dock. I attempted a complete reinstall 3 times now to no avail. I have the eqclient.ini file all set up, everything is installed to default directories, windowed mode is true, etc etc. Any ideas? Anyone have a similar issue and resolve it?

Edit: Nevermind! Sorry, should have read through thread. Had to update the engine and wrapper as others have noted.

[Trodomir]

I used the instructions posted here here by Innova (major thanks).

Working really well. Crash now and then but that happens on windows too.

Late 2013 Mac Pro
Processor 3.5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5
Memory 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 ECC
Graphics AMD FirePro D700 6144 MB
Software OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)

[Ginge]

Did everything per the instructions. When I go to run Project 1999 the application opens in my dock, but nothing else starts up.

2013
2.4
8gb ram
Intel Iris

[Lankypt1]

Works like a charm, I copied over my old Windows P99 folder.

Macbook Pro 2011
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 Gb Memory 1067 MHz DDR3
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 320M

Good luck to everyone.

Edit: Forgot to mention that My OS X version is Snow Leopard.

[AXER]

Would someone be willing to give me a step by step with private messaging? I get to step 7 and have no idea what it means.

[androsynth]

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

Doing it with the p1999 app I created in wineskin I cannot launch. I get:

"The program (unidentified) has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

I was having this problem as well, this is an X11 problem where the window cant be resized properly because it is in windowed mode.

To fix, go to wineskin.app->screen options. Set the control to 'override' and change 'Normal Windows' to 'Virtual Desktop' and that should fix it. You can experiment with different virtual desktop resolutions to see what works best.

Also, if anyone is having the problem where they try to run the app and nothing happens, use Innova's guide on page 29 to go through the full setup.

[Xertex]

Hey guys,

If you're running Mavericks (OS X 10.9), I invite you to give this simple setup a try:

1. Download EverQuest.zip
2. Unzip it. It becomes a .app that was created by following the steps Innova posted earlier in this thread.
3. Double-click that .app, and enjoy!

After following the numerous steps in Innova's walkthrough, I realized that we're just creating a Windows sandbox that's configured to run EQ, so once the sandbox is created, there's really no need for anyone else to have to go through the same lengthy setup. It's all self-contained and ready to run on any machine!

It's a large download, but only about 100 MB larger than the installer discs and supplementary files.

Please let me know if this works / doesn't work for you guys!

- Xertex

[Quaichang]

Hi am trying to get p99 on my mac air and having all sorts of problems any chance some one could message me and walk me through it from scratch step by step.

thank you

[Quaichang]

I have tried everything and just cannot get anything to work. any chance some one could walk me through this step by step from scratch?

thank you

[rop]

I followed this video when i installed it on my Macbook Pro and my wife's Macbook Air, both work great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfNbEUVweM

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

I have tried everything and just cannot get anything to work. any chance some one could walk me through this step by step from scratch?

thank you