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Using Cider to run Windows games on OS X?

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I have been trying to get this to work on new games however im not having much luck can anyone help me i am trying to do this with a new game just released called Frontline: Fuel of War, i have done everything i could think of but no luck.
I have a new Mac Book Pro :D but still im having problems can someone help
 
What to Import?

davidlt said:
Yeah, I used it alreay several times. Playing Mafia right now on MacBook, works perfeckly.

But not only files must be added to the Cinder package, you must inlucde and games information from register if it uses it. And CPU must be INTEL's. Amm... And game must run full screen from the start, if there are any other window before game starts you won't be able to port it to Cinder.
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Hi, I'm trying to run Mafia, too, but unsuccesfully :-(

I've got MacBook White, 2 GHz Intel C2D, Mac OS X Leopard. The game starts, loads, and when it is supposed to ask me to choose a profile, it crashes instead :-(

Can you, please, help me?

Thanks for everything :)
 
Lotro

I'm not sure of the legality of using Cider. This is a commercial product not meant for end users. However, you might want to fiddle around with Wine, as it is free. Not sure as to how it really works though, as I've never used it (still waiting for my first Intel Mac, an Octo MP is on its way).

When I get my MP later this month, I might try to use Wine to get Lord of the Rings Online to work under OS X. It is possible, according to this. No guarantee that it will work though...
 
iPapa said:
I'm not sure of the legality of using Cider. This is a commercial product not meant for end users. However, you might want to fiddle around with Wine, as it is free. Not sure as to how it really works though, as I've never used it (still waiting for my first Intel Mac, an Octo MP is on its way).

When I get my MP later this month, I might try to use Wine to get Lord of the Rings Online to work under OS X. It is possible, according to this. No guarantee that it will work though...
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Not to bump an old thread, but I wanted to make sure that you were aware that there is no Mac port of Wine. You can try Darwine, though IIRC, it's buggy as hell.

Of course, there's always cross-over, which should work nicely.
 
7031 said:
Not to bump an old thread, but I wanted to make sure that you were aware that there is no Mac port of Wine. You can try Darwine, though IIRC, it's buggy as hell.

Of course, there's always cross-over, which should work nicely.
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Yes, but for this particular user, LOTR Online will not run on Crossover nor Crossover Games. It has to do with .Net if I remember correctly.

Actually the game can technically run from what I've read but you'll need Windows to patch the game, then copy the files. Plus Mono for the .Net capability but that's untested if desired. Then launch the game via command line to bypass the launcher. It's a whole lot of trouble but probably not as much trouble as setting up and configuring the linked Wine version. In addition to the updater, 2 other functions in the game will not work since they require IE. Someone had posted that installing IE in the same bottle as LOTR might work but again is untested.

All in all the process kinda goes against the whole purpose of Crossover, but I can see the advantage of running the game in OSX.

I might actually try it out later using the tips on the Crossover page to get it working. I liked LOTR when I was in beta. During the last char whipe I quit since I didn't want to re-level my char but it was a nice change of pace for me. I might try it just to see if I can get it working, otherwise it's bootcamp I go :(

I have GuildWars installed on Crossover but if I can get LOTR running I might go with it and just keep a vmware windows version for patching.
 
i wonder if cider would work for programs like office 2007? I don't see why not..
 
Freyqq said:
i wonder if cider would work for programs like office 2007? I don't see why not..
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I think Crossover would be better for that. Remember windows apps especially ones done by microsoft utilize alot of the winapi, win32dll etc. Lots of objects and classes inside the windows directory.

It may be possible but who knows. Cider port for applications rather than games. Blah, it's giving software companies more reason to NOT develop native applications when they can save a buck and maximize profits by porting, then we're stuck with shabby performance.
 
7031 said:
Not to bump an old thread, but I wanted to make sure that you were aware that there is no Mac port of Wine. You can try Darwine, though IIRC, it's buggy as hell.

Of course, there's always cross-over, which should work nicely.
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There is Wine for Mac:
Wine => Intel Macs
Darwine => PPC Macs

You can get Wine from Macports.org. Caveats being that Apple's X11 is not up to stuff, so get the one from XQuartz.
 
but that list is out of date. I have Savage1 in Cider, and that isn't listed.
 
Anyone have any luck running Sins of a Solar Empire through the Cider hack? I can load it up and graphics look great, seems speedy... the cursor gets funky and text isn't loading, however. Is there something I need to do like take the fonts out of the Windows install and add them somewhere else in the system? Or am I just SOL?

Would be nice if the company would just work with Transgaming, looks like this wouldn't require too much editing.
 
I actually seemed to get Sins working a bit better with Crossover. The cursor and text did show up, though the text was the wrong font size. It locked up after a few minutes of playing, unfortunately.
 
Keleko said:
I actually seemed to get Sins working a bit better with Crossover. The cursor and text did show up, though the text was the wrong font size. It locked up after a few minutes of playing, unfortunately.
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Hmmm, I don't have issues with the game locking up under Crossover, but the font actually comes in as gibberish. Looks like the right size though, just strange characters.

Anyone have any ideas? If there is any way to fix the fonts the game looks like it plays perfect on my machine (06 Intel iMac).
 
I want to know what you did to get it to work in Cider. I just get a blank screen when I tried it.
 
Wondering if anyone could help me do the opposite of what you all are talking about. I'm currently playing X3:reunion through Cider, but i'm going to install Windows through boot camp and would like to run it on there instead. I'd rather not buy the game again since the "mac" version was $40. Anyone know what I need to bring to windows and where to put it? I know there's a whole cdrive folder in the package contents, but there are things before that which seem important. Registry entries and the like. Thanks in advance for the help.
 
lovesupreme said:
Wondering if anyone could help me do the opposite of what you all are talking about. I'm currently playing X3:reunion through Cider, but i'm going to install Windows through boot camp and would like to run it on there instead. I'd rather not buy the game again since the "mac" version was $40. Anyone know what I need to bring to windows and where to put it? I know there's a whole cdrive folder in the package contents, but there are things before that which seem important. Registry entries and the like. Thanks in advance for the help.
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Excellent question. I don't know if it's doable, but if it is, I'd certainly like to know how
 
i downloaded ciderd game (far cry) and it worked like a charm
works almost better then it did with pc
 
oh yea, if the mouse is lagging just do this
Open system.cfg, you can find 2 files one is in Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/Far Cry/ and the other in /Bin32/

Open them with TextEdit
Find and change i_direct_input = "1" to i_direct_input = "0" in each file
Save
Close
Start
Play
 
I've got Battlefront 2 to work pretty decently by hacking the Spore Creature Creator package. The only issue is the mouse pointer while in game. Anyone know of a way to fix that?
 
davidlt said:
Yeah, I used it alreay several times. Playing Mafia right now on MacBook, works perfeckly.

But not only files must be added to the Cinder package, you must inlucde and games information from register if it uses it. And CPU must be INTEL's. Amm... And game must run full screen from the start, if there are any other window before game starts you won't be able to port it to Cinder.
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Is there a reason for it having to go into full screen immediately? Is there something that I can do to fix it?

I have been trying to port the Matrix games (Enter the matrix and Path Of Neo) and got the same result as someone else who posted here - A black black screen in full mode.
I know that enter the matrix has a sort of prefs window come up before you can start to play, and perhaps path of neo does too.
I'm guessing that because the pref window comes, that is why I'm getting a black sceen.
Does anyone have any ideas about how i might go about making it it go straight into the game without the prefs window? Or any other kind of fix?
Thanks for any help you can offer :D
 
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