Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Forum

anyone running this in version 8 with any success?

Is there a reason you need to? There are official Linux and Mac clients for this game, aren't there?

Just curious as you can pick up the PC version for $5-$10 and the Mac version is still $50!

Blimey, so it is!

On Linux, I simply purchased the super-cheap Windows disc for about £3, and downloaded the installer which uses the data from that disc and works great. That's how I imagined the Mac client would work too, but just looking in to it I see Aspyr made their own version, which not only costs more, but is inferior in that you need to put the disc in to play the game, as well!

I see that the last tested version was 6.2, so if you can wait a day or two I'll test my Windows copy out in CXG8 Linux and let you know the results - after all it does use OpenGL to begin with so it might well be tweakable.

Thanks Carl, that would be awesome!

It amazes me how much some of these mac games are at retail still; it's insane.

Doom 3 Is $40, Quake Wars $50! Then they wonder why they didn't sell better... :)

Okay, various things I've tried have all resulted in the same crash at 'loading UI' as reported before. However, WINE did crash 'properly' and give a backtrace so I'll give it to the Ninjas and see if they can help any.

As it's a non-supported game with native clients, I'm not sure what priority it'll be, but it's a fault in WINE all the same.

Thanks for the help!

Aaaactually, my fiddling has got me to the Quake Wars main menu. There's a slight fault in the mouse control that causes it to float to the upper left all the time, but I've got a few things in mind which might solve that.

Keep an eye on this thread and I'll keep you posted as to progress.

SUCCESS! It's a really REALLY easy fix to get it working, and when it does, it works at full speed at full settings - the mouse problem turned out to be...my mouse. It did it in the Linux version too, but another mouse was fine.

I'll post up details of how I got it working shortly.

Carl what processor are you running?

I have a new Macbook Pro, so I would assume it can handle the game. It seems to run everything else fairly well.

That's great news, thanks again!

I'm running a an Athlon64 X2 4200+, but from the looks of it you could get away with lower, as it's really identical to Windows performance, cranked to the max and still smooth. I think it's more the graphics card that's taking the strain - I have an 8800GT.

My macbook pro is 2.26 duo core 2 and the video card is a NVIDIA GeForce 9400M with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM... Should be ok I would think...

It runs L4D very well...

got a GL error when launching

What error? At which point? The screenshots I've uploaded were on a brand new Linux Mint install (I keep a hard drive clean for testing purposes) with the default Nvidia drivers, and I've changed winecfg from ALSA to OSS as mentioned in my Tips'n'Tricks, I didn't have to tweak anything GL related.

The only Apple I own is a Performa which isn't likely to be much use for testing. 😀

Pretty much at launch and a whole slew of them.... Everything installs fairly well.

I think with me trying to do in OSX is the kicker...

Check to see if GLSL and the like are enabled in your bottle - I can't remember what the default setting is for that now.

that's in the regedit, correct..?

Yeah.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D/UseGLSL

Options are enabled or disabled - try them both and see what happens...you might get lucky.