LotRO via 'CrossOver Games' on my MBP
@PurpleCliff don't blame you at all for a
"I can't be bothered" attitude to the bloated and insecure Windoze: I spurn it like the plague myself; BUT... I'm thoroughly enjoying LotRO WITHOUT all the bloat and infection headaches by playing it inside '
CrossOver Games', a game-centric emulator from CodeWeavers (sitting on the shoulders of giants: the Wine Project), via '
PyLotRO', a launcher for LotRO.
CrossOver Games
"you can run many popular Windows games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux PC."
» 7 day free trial available
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxgames/
» Compatibility Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=2869
PyLotRO
"allows Mac OSX and Linux users to patch and launch [LotRO] using Crossover Games"
» freeware
http://www.mcgillsociety.org/PyLotRO/index.html
For the curious, my specs are:
MacBook Pro OS X 10.5.8, 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (4 GB RAM), GeForce 8600M GT (512 MB VRAM)
CrossOver Games v9.1.0
LotRO Siege of Mirkwood, free European 14 day trial version
http://www.lotro-europe.com/
Overall graphics quality: High, and Windowed Resolution: 1900x1178 (effectively full screen, but so I can switch apps for music, note-taking, etc.)
@rmpstudio and SilentPanda pleased to hear you have LotRO working in Bootcamp and Parallels 4.0 respectively. But...
"I only lost 80gb of my hard drive space and most of that is for Lotro"???
My 'CrossOver Games' bottle called 'LOTRO-EU-ENGB+PyLotRO'
takes up only 12.35 GB which I think demonstrates an admirably parsimonious approach to running 'Windoze only' games by CodeWeavers Wine bottle.
I've also downloaded Howard Shore's masterful
'The Lord of the Rings' film trilogy soundtrack from the torrent cloud, which makes perfect background music while playing in iTunes. And as a Tolkien aficionado of three decades standing, I find the Tolkien-legendarium-enriched LotRO environment way more engaging and immersive than WoW.