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I have successfully run ddo on my mac. Here's what I did (You will need access to any windows computer which will run DDO):

1. Install DirectX9, DirectX Runtime-Modern, and Microsoft 2005C++ Redistributable into a new Windows 2000 bottle (from Manage Bottles).

2. Get a complete download of DDO (this one is called DDO <Hi or Standard> Res Installer Files). You can try using a disk drive to transfer the files from windows to mac.

3. Install DDO using "Install from Folder", and then install PyLOtRo along with that. Launch PyLOtRo.

4. Go into Tools in the toolbar and select Options. Click the "..." next to Game Directory and navigate to the folder containing all of your bottles. Choose Turbine, <Your Bottle>, and then Dungeons and Dragons Online.app or something like that. DO NOT click anything that has any extra words. Click Apply.

5. Go to Settings Wizard in Tools and choose Dungeons and Dragons Online from the top bar. Click on "Find Games" and click on the entry that appears. Click "apply".

6. Go back to Tools and click on Patch. Click start. When it's done, exit PyLOtRo.

7. Find a windows computer and log in with your DDO Account. Accept the license agreements and quit.

8. On your mac go back to manage bottles. Click on Control Panel and click on Wine Configurer. Launch it. In the toolbar, go to audio. When it asks you to accept the sound provider,accept it and apply.

9. Exit Wine Configurer and go back to applications. Now install OpenAL into your bottle.

10. Enter PyLOtRo, log in, and enjoy! The loading screen is an empty grid, but check mcgilsociety in tips and tricks to answer that problem. If it tells you that the client is out of date, simply patch again! The graphics are about the speed on a windows computer, and the sound works.

Until we get a CrossTie, enjoy!!!

This post above confuses me ; granted I just tested with linux (will try the same as what I did on the Mac a bit later), but, I never needed to use windows (not that I ever would) to get it installed and running - I'll recheck on the iMac to see if it's related to OSX or such...

Artist Formally Known as Dot wrote:

This post above confuses me ; granted I just tested with linux (will
try the same as what I did on the Mac a bit later), but, I never
needed to use windows (not that I ever would) to get it installed
and running - I'll recheck on the iMac to see if it's related to OSX
or such...

The issue has to do with the two license queries [EULAs] which now appear:

Sofus Rose wrote:

7. Find a windows computer and log in with your DDO Account. Accept
   the license agreements and quit.

If I remember correctly, one is from Turbine and one is from Microsoft for software which Turbine installs.
Both are the typical PC EULA ... scroll to the bottom of the text before you can click "accept" and continue.

I forget when exactly these appeared (update 7 maybe in June of 2010?).

William H. Magill wrote:

Artist Formally Known as Dot wrote:

This post above confuses me ; granted I just tested
with linux (will try the same as what I did on the Mac a bit
later),
but, I never needed to use windows (not that I ever would) to get
it
installed and running - I'll recheck on the iMac to see if it's
related to OSX or such...

The issue has to do with the two license queries [EULAs] which now
appear:

snip<

Yeah, I was chatting with Aric about ; dumdums here didn't know it was something
that had become part of 10.1 =)

Hideho.

Just some FYI that I'm trying to piece together a crosstie profile hung
around the live download installer stub - it's a bit of a challenge, but
it's almost there .. (I think, the iMac is being disagreeable for some
inane reason) .. (that is, I think the install profile works equally for
both, but OSX is having some other issue starting the game itself) ... it's
not perfect yet though ; I'm still staging the crosstie to hedge around
some rough edges ; I'll post back when things are a bit saner -- I'd
like folks to test it if possible on different setups ... more later..