Borderlands Forum

Performance and graphics are good, I would suggest against dynamic shadows as that causes a big slow down.
Crossover Games 8 on Mac

I did notice some visual glitches, but only inside Zed's and Marcus domiciles, I believe they would be texture clamping glitches if I recall terminology correctly?

how'd you get the game to work?

answers are needed

I agree, please tell us what you've done.

I installed through steam, in winecfg I set it to not do the window manager stuff (everything unchecked) and then for my registry entries, I added some borderlands.exe configuration, I don't know offhand what the defaults are on some things nowadays, but I set the following under the Direct3D key.

DirectDrawRenderer opengl
OffscreenRenderingMode fbo
RenderTargetLockMode readtex
UseGLSL disabled

The important one there is the UseGLSL disabled I think. I haven't done rigorous testing on the differences each of those makes, as I've been playing rather than testing.

Also you may want to consider MouseWarpOverride set to force, under DirectInput. Since its based off the unreal engine which apparently doesn't ask for the mouse causing it to warp properly.

Only thing is this game actually uses menus more than most FPS games, so you might not want to force the mouse warp.

Also, after further play, it seems some inside areas do cause more problems as I stated earlier, the Sledge's Safehouse area in particular has lots of texture flickering.

I suppose I could include the hardware config; mac pro 09 octo 2.26 and a GTX 285 1GB, and the GT120 is still in there as well, although its not in use, unless wine can do physx....

im trying out the registry stuff now and if i cant figure it out ill post a question after this post, but for the first part, after u get into winecfg (thru the crossover games run command menu thingy right?), where did you uncheck things? pictures of process would be helpful as i am very very slow and very very bad at all this stuff

also the registry do u create a new Direct3D key in the folder "borderlands"?

screen shots would be much appreciated

http://dougisfunny.com/images/borderlandsconfig.gif

thanks for the screenie @ such short notice, but, what if my borderlands folder isn't in the appdefaults folder?

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also i didn't know you could stick other video cards in the mac pro... man, even the fact that you have a mac pro puts me to shame... not that my computers any good 2 begin with :\

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do you emulate your desktop as well? i never thought to do that... does it work better or just... yeah

Ryan.M wrote:

thanks for the screenie @ such short notice, but, what if my
borderlands folder isn't in the appdefaults folder?

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also i didn't know you could stick other video cards in the mac
pro... man, even the fact that you have a mac pro puts me to
shame... not that my computers any good 2 begin with :\

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do you emulate your desktop as well? i never thought to do that...
does it work better or just... yeah

You can create a new folder in the appdefaults 'folder' (folders in the registry are called keys), for whatever game you want to create defaults for. It will over ride the values set bottlewide as the defaults in the key HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D.

Since I run multiple steam games from the bottle, I just created a Borderlands.exe key manually.

Emulating a virtual desktop does work, I just ran into more issues with the mouse running off the side of the game then. Its what I initially did, and how I got the screen shot on the screenshots page.

And there are a few video cards you can upgrade a mac pro with, only 2 or 3 are consumer level though.

did all that, everything placed correctly, ran it again from steam, no dice, same error

got any other tweaks you've got for it? or should i give up and buy me a laptop with a good graphics card and windows 7?

I've turned on the FPS counter, and I'm only getting just over 20 FPS in the starting location, after turning dynamic shadows off, regardless of resolution or AF level. I've got a 8800GT, and none of the registry tweaks do anything.

I suppose you're right, I didn't notice the FPS was so low, since it was smooth. It was running about that for me as well.

Work great for me aswell. On Linux (Ubuntu 9.10) on amd64, so thought it was worth the mention.

I had no need for registry tweaks. It worked right out the box, with only performance issues, some texture flicker and sound garbling. Nothing that really ruins the experience, just some polishing :)

I got Borderlands to work straight away without any need for tweaks after using a new bottle free from all the Microsoft packages that get installed with other games. This allowed the game to run just as good as the Windows equivalent. However there appear to be issues when running it in a bottle with some other games meaning it might need specific versions of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable etc. I was using the steam Borderlands with Crossover Games 8.0 on Mac OSX 10.6.1

I have a Mid 2009 17" MBP running CXG 8.0 on 10.6.1 with no dice. It's worth noting that I don't have the steam copy, I have the retail physical copy. It installs fine. To run:

The Digital Rights Management (DRM) software in this program
prevents it from running in CrossOver. If you are in a legal jurisdiction
which allows removal of such software, you may have luck running this
program. Unfortunately, CodeWeavers, because they are subject to the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, will be unable to support you.

It starts up fine and I see the 2k games / Gearbox / nvidia animations, but then I get a black screen and nothing happens :(

Any thoughts? I tried with and without the hacks listed on this thread.

Edit 1: I installed into a new bottle.

Aman Chhabra wrote:

I have a Mid 2009 17" MBP running CXG 8.0 on 10.6.1 with no dice.
It's worth noting that I don't have the steam copy, I have the
retail physical copy. It installs fine. To run:

Apologies for the edit.

what's all the stuff about DRM? doesn't make any sense...

I can't get the Steam version to run either; all I get is a black screen (with audio, though) after the intro videos.

Has anyone managed to run the Steam version?

The DRM stuff is because the retail non steam version comes with DRM that won't allow you to play it in Crossover without the use of some illegalities to circumvent it that cannot be posted on this board.

Anyway I'm curious now that I have read others are getting the black screen after the intro videos. It's interesting why it would work for some but not others.

yeah its a weird mixed thing... what's your configuration? that seems to affect its running or not

also, have you tried the registry edits?

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who gave the bronze medal?

you'd think we could have separate ratings for the steam version and the disc version... ya know?

Yeah, I tried the registry edits that Douglas suggested, as well as tweaking a bunch of settings in winecfg. Nothing seemed to do the trick... I'm running this on a MacBook Pro with a GT 8600M, so I don't think it's an issue with missing graphics card features or anything.

Was that in a fresh bottle?

I created a new bottle, via "Install Software", "Steam via Download". Configured my Steam account, downloaded the game, performed your configs, and tried to run it.

Should I have created a bottle from scratch and installed Steam manually?

I doubt that would make a difference. Just having other stuff installed can interfere sometimes, like running Dragon Age: Origins failed for a random reason during startup for me til I started a new bottle.

I agree it wouldn't be missing graphics card features, but there were apparently issues with the nvidia driver included in 10.6/10.6.1. Maybe 10.6.2 will magically fix it for you?

Ah, forgot to mention, I'm actually running Leopard, 10.5.8 to be precise. As far as I know there are no opengl issues with this one :-/

How do you install the game in it's own bottle?. I downloaded the game off Steam.

David Francis wrote:

I got Borderlands to work straight away without any need for tweaks
after using a new bottle free from all the Microsoft packages that
get installed with other games. This allowed the game to run just as
good as the Windows equivalent. However there appear to be issues
when running it in a bottle with some other games meaning it might
need specific versions of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable
etc. I was using the steam Borderlands with Crossover Games 8.0 on
Mac OSX 10.6.1

I got borderlands off Steam. How is it installed into its own bottle? I can't find it in any folders. Granted I have no idea what I'm doing...>_< Help would be greatly appreciated.

To install a steam game in its own bottle have a new bottle where you just install steam via the crossover installer, then copy the game files over into the steamapps folder in the steam folder in program files in the bottle. Double click to download and it will realise you have the files and then try and play and it should install all the necessary things for the game. This ensures that no other programs for other games have been installed possibly reducing the odds off it working.

David Francis wrote:

To install a steam game in its own bottle have a new bottle where
you just install steam via the crossover installer, then copy the
game files over into the steamapps folder in the steam folder in
program files in the bottle. Double click to download and it will
realise you have the files and then try and play and it should
install all the necessary things for the game. This ensures that no
other programs for other games have been installed possibly reducing
the odds off it working.

Alright thanks a lot. Now I have another question. When I'm playing the game my cursor runs up against the edges of the screen instead of scrolling forever, making me need to constantly adjust my mouse positioning. Is there a way to fix this? Does the mouse warping registry configuration deal with this issue?

hey there you sound like you have it! for some reason mine (same computer, and set-up as yours) is not working straight out of the box, i just wanted to ask when you inserted the disk, and it began "installing windows software" how long did that take?? as in inital install?? i left mine for 40 mins thats when i realsied there must be a problem? or am i just impatient? would really appriciate your imput, thanks 😀