HOW-TO: Play Project 1999 on a Mac

[canisreevus]

I have everything working perfectly (so far) on El Capitan using the updated wrapper/engine from Wineskin.

[eqcore15]

What is the new updated wrapper that you used? I'm kinda lost on getting EQ back up on my mac.

[canisreevus]

I installed a new wrapper with Winery, then I made sure to download the latest engine (2.6.1). I copied over my old P99 files into the new wrapper. Then I opened the new wineskin and made sure the path was put in correctly as well as the patchme text.

[sockin]

Yup! 2.6.1. is working like a charm for me.

[eqcore15]

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

Yup! 2.6.1. is working like a charm for me.

After you updated the wrapper to 2.6.1, was there anything else you did? I updated my wrapper, but I still had to set my Mac in rootless mode to make EQ launch.

[sockin]

I tried fiddling with a bunch of other settings before people started saying disabling rootless would fix the issue. I read up on the forums then and found the guy who wrote Wineskin was working on a patch to fix the problem so I figured I would just wait since I mainly play on my PC anyway.

Before I decided to wait however, I did a bunch of things to try to solve the issue. I tried many different versions of the engine. and messed around with some settings. I just went ahead and restored the settings back to what they should be to test it for you and everything works fine either way. Make sure that you're using engine version. WS9Wine1.7.51.

Also (I know it sounds dumb) but make sure you actually updated the wrapper itself and not just wineskin. Some in the wineskin support forum were confused by this step of the process.

Hope that helps.

[eqcore15]

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

Make sure that you're using engine version. WS9Wine1.7.51

Yes! Thank you! I was sure I had to update my engine as well, but wasn't sure which one to choose.

[sockin]

Originally Posted by eqcore15 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yes! Thank you! I was sure I had to update my engine as well, but wasn't sure which one to choose.

Glad I could help!

[sockin]

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

Anyone figure out the mouse issue when rotating 360 degrees? It locks up about half way...

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

Same for me. Anyone have a solution?

Many thanks!

Use Quartz instead of x11 and it fixes the mouse-look issue.

[canisreevus]

I would recommend engine 2.6.1. I didn't have to fiddle with any other settings. No problems with mouse look or anything else. It actually loads quicker than prior to El Capitan as well.