[MAC] NWN WinToOSX Wrapper

[Legacy_Llandru]

               Recent thread transplanted from the old NWN1 Mac forum. --Llandru

doh123 posted: Sunday, 27 June 2010 12:30PM

I made a new wrapper using Wineskin... using it as a test in making a 1.1 update for Wineskin, and since NWN is one of my favorite games.

It should be running great, though I haven't fully tested all install methods.
This is really only good for the game itself, it doesn't run the toolset right, or a server.... but you can fully run the normal windows version patched to 1.69 without needing Windows at all.

No game files are included, you must supply your own copy of NWN for Windows.

doh123's NWN related wrapper downloads
This link shows my NWN and NWN2 wrapper downloads.
Please follow the directions that comes with it so you know how to use it.  Basically after you get it installed it will look like a normal Mac .app that you just double click and run like any Mac app.

The Updater should work... but if not you may have to install the 1.69 patch manually after installing both games.

This should work fine for multiplayer

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Llandru]

               

Mirgalen posted: Monday, 28 June 2010 07:20PM

Thanks a lot doh123. For those who may already have your previous version could you please list somehow the changes you made or the improvements.

I have downloaded your new versions and I would like to know if I really need to switch to this one or if I can keep using the old one.

Not to mention that I had to delete my windoz partition sometime ago.

Thanks.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Llandru]

               

doh123 posted: Thursday, 01 July 2010 06:20PM

Posted 06/28/10 23:20 (GMT) by Mirgalen

Thanks a lot doh123. For those who may already have your previous version could you please list somehow the changes you made or the improvements.

I have downloaded your new versions and I would like to know if I really need to switch to this one or if I can keep using the old one.

Not to mention that I had to delete my windoz partition sometime ago.

Thanks.

I don't really recall for sure... as I've made a few versions.  If an older one is working good for you, I'd say keep it.

from what I do remember, my last one I made was right after I added some fullscreen and resolution switching options into Wineskin, so probably only difference here is I actually tried to make the patcher work... I have it auto disable the intro movie.  Although it plays without crashing any more is audio only, so I just have the wrapper always disable it.... and I've made a lot of bug fixes and improvements to Wineskin, which you may or may not notice on your machine playing the game.  Its also using a much newer build of Wine and Xquartz, but for NWN that isn't as noticeable of a difference as it has been in NWN2.

The next big change wont be until I get working RANDR in Xquartz.  Xquartz people are working on that... and I've been playing with the code some myself, but I haven't got it working that great yet... so whoever gets it first would be the winner...  Once this is working it will let me add some stuff for (not just NWN) switching into and out of fullscreens and real resolution switching with hopefully better multitasking.  All of that shouldn't affect NWN1 that much though really... but I like keeping the wrapper up to date with updates... one of my all time favorite games.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_doh123]

               oh... glad to see you moved over the post, thanks  :-)
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_electricsmoothie]

                I am running Mac OSX 10.6.3. I followed all the directions closely, and have all the necessary files in the c/NWN directory within the wrapper - updated manually to v1.69 of the client. NWN installed gracefully and totally fine through the wrapper's "Install Software" option. The NWN.ini settings/Wineskin settings are what is recommended in the directions, as well.

However, when I try to run the client through the WineSkin (nwn.exe) I reach the intro page, but once I try to go any further I encounter a "Eaccess violation.". When I try to run instead nwnmain.exe an error message comes up in X11 saying that a serious error has encountered and saying that there is possibly a deficiency in Wine.

I have been struggling to work and understand Wine for the last month or so, so far to little success. My installations of Wine are all from already compiled sources or binaries (such as Darwine, Winetricks, Winebottler). The version of Wine on my Macbook Pro is 1.1.44.

SCREENSHOTS:



(When running nwnmain.exe)




(When running nwn.exe, this pops up right after the screen with the welcoming Drow lady on it.)


Please help!!! It will be most appreciated! Feel free to also contact me via MSN: electricsmoothie@hotmail.com
               
               

               

                     Modifié par electricsmoothie, 01 octobre 2010 - 04:42 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_electricsmoothie]

               (BUMP?!)
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Llandru]

               Hi there. I don't know how often doh123 checks these forums. You might want to contact him on the Porting Team forums (forum.portingteam.com). If you get a fix from him, it'd be great if you could come back and share it here. '>
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Llandru, 04 octobre 2010 - 08:56 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Vorn1975]

               Tried this today and managed to get it working. Installed from my Forgotten Realms box set and even the movies work. Although I had to set the Safe Movies = 1 option. Without it the game would start and crash at the point of loading the movies, even with the Disable Movies option.

Thanks so much for the wrapper. It's awesome to be able to play this again. '> Now to see if I can get CEP installed and working with it too.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Vorn1975]

               This is no longer working in OSX Lion. '>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Skildron]

               Just out of curiosity: What about the NWN Mac client? Does it not work any longer on recent versions of OSX or why is it that Mac users try wrappers all around? I don't own any type of Mac, so I won't know anything of NWN on the Mac first hand.

Greetings
Skildron
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Skildron]

               A little of topic:
"Just out of curiosity" - is this a germanism?

Greetings
Skildron
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Nick601]

               @ Skildron,The Mac version of NWN uses PowerPC code, which is not supported by OS X 10.7 (Lion). If you want to continue playing NWN on a Lion Mac you'll need to

a) Create a 10.6 boot partition and play on that, or -
Get the Windows version and use a wrapper, BootCamp, or other form of emulation.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Skildron]

               @Nick601: Thank you for the explanation, I didn't know that.

Greetings
Skildron
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_doh123]

                I just updated this to a Version 4 wrapper, still available at the same download location...

It should be working fine on 10.5 - 10.7 (yes I've been playing it on Lion and its been running fine for me)

It automatically fixes your nwn.ini movies settings too... every time you run it will autamatically check and set...

Disable Intro Movies=1
SafeMovie=1

both of which are needed.  You should never have to worry about these.  Hopefully you can just install your game in the wrapper and play with no headaches!
It should also work fine using fullscreen with multiple monitors as well

Remember you can use Cmd+Opt+A to toggle between fullscreen and a pseudo-window mode so you can multitask.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par doh123, 05 septembre 2011 - 06:39 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Algoran]

               after installation, when i click on nwn, it's only launch wineskin and not nwn.
i can launch nwn : open player disc.dmg and run auto run.exe or run an alias of nwn.exe.
but when i click in "PLAY", : white screen !
pls help me