Background:
I had CoH installed under Boot Camp/XP Pro on a 13" MBP for about a year. Although it runs perfectly, the inconvenience of dual boot turned me off and it's scalding HOT. After buying an iMac recently, I thought I'd revisit CoH on a Mac, this time under Wine. Googling around, I found this:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4506
Bolstered by the apparent success of installs on Linux, I dove right in on OS X.
Before I start, I have to warn you that I already have CoH installed on a WinXP box networked with my iMac. The procedure that I am going to outline assumes that you have CoH installed already on a Windoze box - AFAIK, no one has gotten a raw install of CoH from discs to work on Wine yet.
1. Download and install Wine Bottler:
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/
2. Run Wine Bottler. In the Left-Hand List of Options (under "Force Quit Wine"), you want to select "Create Custom Prefixes".
2A. In Install File, click the "select File..." button and pick RelicCOH.exe installed on your Windoze box - remember, you need a Windoze box networked to your Mac or some way to access that RelicCOH.exe file.
2B. prefix template should say "new prefix". Under Winetricks, you want to check "vcrun2005" and "d3dx9_36". Finally, in Runtime Arguments, you may want to put "-window" as full-screen mode doesn't seem to work on my iMac 27". I would recommend that you put it in first and rerun without this flag later, if you like.
2C. After you press Install, select your Applications directory and call your app "Company of Heroes".
3. After the app is created, you need to copy the entire CoH directory from your Windoze box to OS X. On my machine, the directory is here:
~/Library/Application Support/Wine/prefixes/Company of Heroes/drive_c/winebottler
4. Open Company of Heroes from your Applications window and it should just run inside a window!
NOTES:
1. HW:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac11,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 4 GB
2. SW:
System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.4 (10F569)
Kernel Version: Darwin 10.4.0
Boot Volume: Internal 2TB
Boot Mode: Normal
3. I have CoH and the 2 expansions so my executable actually comes from ToV - it seems to run fine.
4. I am running at: 2560x1418, High settings when available. Ultra seems to cause problems. Sound and graphics speeds are acceptable.
5. Only annoying thing is, in Window mode, the mouse won't push the screen when it reaches the edge - I will have to look for some workaround other than arrow keys.
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From beginning to end, it takes about 30 minutes to jump through the hoops - copying the files over the network took the longest. But I can't tell how how sweet it is to run CoH in a Window under OS X
Good luck!
I had CoH installed under Boot Camp/XP Pro on a 13" MBP for about a year. Although it runs perfectly, the inconvenience of dual boot turned me off and it's scalding HOT. After buying an iMac recently, I thought I'd revisit CoH on a Mac, this time under Wine. Googling around, I found this:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4506
Bolstered by the apparent success of installs on Linux, I dove right in on OS X.
Before I start, I have to warn you that I already have CoH installed on a WinXP box networked with my iMac. The procedure that I am going to outline assumes that you have CoH installed already on a Windoze box - AFAIK, no one has gotten a raw install of CoH from discs to work on Wine yet.
1. Download and install Wine Bottler:
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/
2. Run Wine Bottler. In the Left-Hand List of Options (under "Force Quit Wine"), you want to select "Create Custom Prefixes".
2A. In Install File, click the "select File..." button and pick RelicCOH.exe installed on your Windoze box - remember, you need a Windoze box networked to your Mac or some way to access that RelicCOH.exe file.
2B. prefix template should say "new prefix". Under Winetricks, you want to check "vcrun2005" and "d3dx9_36". Finally, in Runtime Arguments, you may want to put "-window" as full-screen mode doesn't seem to work on my iMac 27". I would recommend that you put it in first and rerun without this flag later, if you like.
2C. After you press Install, select your Applications directory and call your app "Company of Heroes".
3. After the app is created, you need to copy the entire CoH directory from your Windoze box to OS X. On my machine, the directory is here:
~/Library/Application Support/Wine/prefixes/Company of Heroes/drive_c/winebottler
4. Open Company of Heroes from your Applications window and it should just run inside a window!
NOTES:
1. HW:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac11,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 4 GB
2. SW:
System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.4 (10F569)
Kernel Version: Darwin 10.4.0
Boot Volume: Internal 2TB
Boot Mode: Normal
3. I have CoH and the 2 expansions so my executable actually comes from ToV - it seems to run fine.
4. I am running at: 2560x1418, High settings when available. Ultra seems to cause problems. Sound and graphics speeds are acceptable.
5. Only annoying thing is, in Window mode, the mouse won't push the screen when it reaches the edge - I will have to look for some workaround other than arrow keys.
----------------------
From beginning to end, it takes about 30 minutes to jump through the hoops - copying the files over the network took the longest. But I can't tell how how sweet it is to run CoH in a Window under OS X
Good luck!
