Mac OSX: Is it supported? + How to play BM on Mac

[Skitch]

Originally Posted by colloquy

Hi guys! I installed BMS using kerning's instructions, and it's fantastic! (thanks to everyone involved in getting the port to work!) However, it's quite unstable during large fights, and crashes randomly every once in a while (trying to run it on maximum graphics). Is there anything else that can be done to improve stability? (or another method that results in fewer crashes?)

Does lowering the graphics quality help?

[alterdings]

Is there a way to install the Wine-Port of Black Mesa into the sourcemods folder of your Mac-native Steam App?

I'm a total noob btw, this is my first ever attampt at porting something

Help would be much appreciated!

[hatninja]

well it seems even if it played on mac without wine
it seriously does not work properly

[higgsboson]

I've used Crossover Games on my Mac (MacBook Pro 2008 Unibody 8GB RAM and integrated graphics only). It ran fine, not on the highest settings, but there were no bugs or any problems at all, other than occasional frame rate slowdowns.

Then Crossover downloaded an update and as usual, it broke everything, I got angry and installed Windows through BootCamp. It runs a LOT better under Windows, my settings are maxed out and my frame rate is smooth, everything looks and feels amazing.

I definitely recommend installing Windows, it will takes 40 GB of space including Steam and all the crap that Steam requires. You can always easily erase and reclaim that space later.

[stephenh]

Originally Posted by Skitch

Obviously it's worse - and not supported. As far as I can tell BlackMesa is playable w/ Wine but YMMV. My suggestion: if you have Windows, then play BlackMesa natively; if you don't, then give Wine a try. And let us know how good/bad it was!

Hey I followed your instructions and everything seems to work apart from an issue i have installing and starting up steam.

Steam says it is updating but then appears to get caught in a loop of extracting, installing and then failing to remove a temporary folder - see screenshot which is attached. I think this issue is unique to me, is there a way to solve it?

[Skitch]

Originally Posted by stephenh

Hey I followed your instructions and everything seems to work apart from an issue i have installing and starting up steam.

Steam says it is updating but then appears to get caught in a loop of extracting, installing and then failing to remove a temporary folder - see screenshot which is attached. I think this issue is unique to me, is there a way to solve it?

Honestly I don't know what is going wrong, but I have a couple of things for you to try.

1. try to click "cancel" when it tries to update or clean up. it might just skip it.
2. don't update Steam. go in offline mode.

Hope it helps.

[stephenh]

Originally Posted by Skitch

Honestly I don't know what is going wrong, but I have a couple of things for you to try.

1. try to click "cancel" when it tries to update or clean up. it might just skip it.
2. don't update Steam. go in offline mode.

Hope it helps.

thanks for the quick reply, how do i start steam, or steamwine as it is called, in offline mode? do i turn off my internet or is there a setting somewhere?

many thanks,

ste

[Skitch]

Originally Posted by stephenh

thanks for the quick reply, how do i start steam, or steamwine as it is called, in offline mode? do i turn off my internet or is there a setting somewhere?

many thanks,

ste

I guess the easiest way is to turn off your internet.