HOW-TO: Play Project 1999 on a Mac

[xuebi]

m1 MacBook in parallels with win11

the ec tunnel is red

Can anyone kown how to deal with it?

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[Rexin]

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

m1 MacBook in parallels with win11

the ec tunnel is red

Can anyone kown how to deal with it?

https://s1.ax1x.com/2022/04/12/LmLOXD.png

https://s1.ax1x.com/2022/04/12/LmOlcT.png

I never found a solution for this [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Mithu]

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

Yes. P99 will not run in wine currently. (See https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=371291). This is because of the custom DSETUP.dll file that P99 provides. You can plan on other emulated servers fine, as long as you do not update using the P99 client files.

Interestingly enough, it runs fine under Steam's Proton 7.0+. I believe this was a joint effort by the CrossOver team at CodeWeavers, so that may work as well on the Mac side.

I may give it a try myself on my M1 mac to see if it fares better than the Parallels approach.

[freezzo]

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

Interestingly enough, it runs fine under Steam's Proton 7.0+. I believe this was a joint effort by the CrossOver team at CodeWeavers, so that may work as well on the Mac side.

I may give it a try myself on my M1 mac to see if it fares better than the Parallels approach.

What system are you running it on with Proton? I assume not a Mac catalina+? EQ seems to work, at least the eqemu servers on wine as long as you aren't playing on P99. Like I mentioned, there is something up with the DSETUP.dll file that prevents it from running. I confirmed this because I copied everything over a new install from P99 except that file, and was able to get to char select, I just couldn't do anything because it told me I was out of date.

I submitted a ticket a while back with P99 regarding this, and they told me to check with tech support forum, even though I had mentioned I already did. I posted in tech support about this issue and that a p99 dev needs to get involved, and no replies so /shrug

[Mithu]

The SteamDeck itself which was purely out of curiosity. I have a M1 MacBook that I tried running with CrossOver but can’t even get the launcher to pop up.

Since they’ve dropped native 32-but support it’ll require a layer of some kind to work, either virtualization or translation layers. I’ve heard people having luck with Parallels but I’m a bit stubborn and want to get it working without the weight of a full Windows VM.

I’m still a bit surprised that P99 works perfectly under Proton, as it’s essentially an in-house Wine. I’ve heard various issues with people trying to play P99 on Wine and didn’t have any of those except the known UDP login server issue which can be fixed.

[freezzo]

Just to be clear, the issue with P99 on Wine, post 32bit support drop is the custom provided DSETUP.dll file by the P99 crew, at least in the testing I have done. Seems like some kind of incorrect 32 <=> 64bit memory translation stuff happening. Gcenx looked into it a bit more from a technical standpoint. EverQuest titanium itself has no issue running. I assume the SteamDeck works fine because it works with 32bit.

[draight]

I had the 'open anyway' button in Privacy and Settings stop working but I got around it by running: `sudo spctl --master-disable`

[nordbear]

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

m1 MacBook in parallels with win11

the ec tunnel is red

Can anyone kown how to deal with it?

https://s1.ax1x.com/2022/04/12/LmLOXD.png

https://s1.ax1x.com/2022/04/12/LmOlcT.png

I was able to resolve the red tint thingie using dgvoodoo. Downloaded, extracted and copied the files mentioned here. https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...1&postcount=14

[xuebi]

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

I was able to resolve the red tint thingie using dgvoodoo. Downloaded, extracted and copied the files mentioned here. https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...1&postcount=14

ty very much , it works

[sogundordor]

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

I was able to resolve the red tint thingie using dgvoodoo. Downloaded, extracted and copied the files mentioned here. https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...1&postcount=14

yeah that’s nice !! thank you very much!!!

i try only drag the latest d3d9.dll in ms folder and cpl.exe to my everquest folder, it makes mouse look works normal , no more red tint and able remove dgvoodoo watermark yay!!