Could someone verify if it is possible to play Mental Omega 3.3 on Mac? I haven't played this mod for three years and I'm thinking of coming back. The problem is I just switched to Mac recently. 
Thank you.
Mental Omega on Mac?
Started by Waveomorphism, Dec 18 2016 09:21 PM
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Posted 18 December 2016 - 09:21 PM
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Posted 18 December 2016 - 09:26 PM
Last time I checked, the new client hates Wine. Ares and Syringe would be fine with it though.
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Posted 18 December 2016 - 09:39 PM
Get a Windows virtual machine (easy, though a bit long to set up). Or a real one 
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Posted 19 December 2016 - 02:46 PM
Why? That's terrible for perf. Windows is already worse than Mac (which has a Unix-based kernel as Linux) and VMs are just worse.
Think I'll recheck it again this week on my Linux then I share my experiences. But yeah, Rampastring should also support effective OSes as well, not just Win.
Think I'll recheck it again this week on my Linux then I share my experiences. But yeah, Rampastring should also support effective OSes as well, not just Win.
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Posted 19 December 2016 - 06:39 PM
Are Ares and Syringe something like Wine? I cannot find them.
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Posted 19 December 2016 - 07:14 PM
+1 from a Linux user. I've got a hard time getting the MO client (as well as DTA and TI) to run at all. Even installing Microsoft .NET framework (tried 4.0, 4.5 and 4.6) instead of Mono didn't help.
I figured out that you have to run the client (through Wine) from the game's directory; it'll try to start and write some error log. Otherwise it won't even do that...
Ares and Syringe are libraries/utilities that do some modding magic on Yuri's Revenge in such a way that no permanent modification of the game itself is needed (so, you can still play YR through XWIS).
Wine is an implementation of Windows APIs; basically a bunch of software that lets you run Windows programs under different OSes (most notably Linux and MacOS).
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Posted 19 December 2016 - 08:44 PM
There's a workaround (I've not tested it on MO yet); basically: use WinXP compatibility mode and .NET 4.0 + XNA.
Described in https://github.com/C...lient/issues/29
There's also one petty problem that makes the client not run under Wine: https://github.com/C...lient/issues/26 - but the workaround is easy.
You need to get rid of .wma and .xnb audio files in Resources directory. Otherwise the XNA client crashes. Better to run without music than not at all...
I got the DTA and TI clients to run eventually. MO will probably work as well.
Edited by BicycleRepairman, 19 December 2016 - 08:46 PM.
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