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Upcoming Events Date Event 12/11 - 1/15 12/11 - 1/15 12/20 - 12/31 12/25 - 1/1 1/8 - 1/15. This thread is now locked due. New thread here:!!! I should probably warn everyone that if you have High Sierra installed, your game will likely freeze when visiting Tatooine or Alderaan. Look into downgrading to a previous macOS because High Sierra is a curse on humanity.!!! June 25 th 2018 -. With Wine version 3.11, I added an extra steps required to play the game.
The extra steps start at 35. This is the fourth time I have to re-upload the guide since posts get archived after six months. The guide talks about how to run The Old Republic on a Mac machine. From the time I last posted the guide, several things happened.
The game started to freeze for some users in large planets like Tatooine, Alderaan, and Hoth. I'm still unsure what exactly causes the freezing. At first we thought it was a SWTOR update, but no update was released at the time freezing started. Then we thought it was the recent issue with Intel, but after extensive testing, the issue isn't with Intel either. The only thing I didn't do is update to High Sierra, and since High Sierra is bantha poodoo, I wouldn't be surprised if that's what causes the issue, so I suggested to downgrade from High Sierra if they have it installed. Read bold sentence above. I've tried to create a SWTOR app by packaging a ready wrapper that would require just a double click to launch, but something happened after a few days, and everyone who downloaded the wrapper had the game stop working, including me, so I put that project aside for now.
If you have any questions, make sure to ask them in this post or sending me a private message. Link to previous threads. Download links: Known bugs. If it's a fresh install, sometimes the downloaded wouldn't start, and instead you will get a play button.
Mash the play button, and the download will start. Sometimes if you login with your credentials, the launcher wouldn't go to the play screen, and instead be stuck loading. Switch between Username/Password using tab and press enter until it goes through. Recent users had their game freezing in large planets. These settings have worked for some users:. GLSL Support, enable it.
Direct Draw Renderer, OpenGL. Video memory size, whatever yours is. Don't touch offscreen rendering mode. Don't touch render target mode lock. Don't touch multisampling. Strict draw ordering, disable it This guide is actively being taken care of.
Works with 5.9 Currently OS X/macOS users are provided with three possible solutions when wanting to run a Windows program; Run a Bootcamp, a Virtual Machine, or use Wine. Everything in this documentation was made possible by the brilliant minds behind the Wine project. If you want to play on Linux, please check out this link Before I begin, remember that every computer is special, and not all will have the same result. The machine I am running from is a MacBook Pro (15-inch, early 2011) with macOS Sierra. PlayOnMac isn't a magical do-it-all program sadly.
What it does is use to create a separate mini-universe (wrapper) for each program you install (or multiple programs on one wrapper). Each wrapper provides you with all the simple components needed to run a Windows program, but it's up to the user to install the rest of the needed components to make the program of choice to run. The problem with installing just SWTOR is that once you install it, it won't run because it's missing several core components required for the game to run. You will have to install all of these components on the same wrapper you will have SWTOR installed on.
Thankfully, PlayOnMac provides a special menu from which you can install all of the required things to run the game, so you don't have to go scavenging for them from different websites. Please make sure to reread each step at least three times to make sure everything is correct. If at any point, a window comes up that says that rundll32.exe failed, ignore this error and close the error. Download the Star Wars: The Old Republic installer.
When on PlayOnMac menu, in the top bar, click Tools - Manage Wine versions. In the Wine version (x86) tab, click on 3.11, and then move it to the right side. PlayOnMac will proceed to download that Wine version. After the download is done, on the PlayOnMac menu, click on the Configure button.
Bottom left, click the New button. Click Next and you will be brought to a screen instructing you to choose the bit version. Pick 32 bits windows installation.
In the listed Wine versions to use, pick 3.11 and click next. Name your virtual drive. Any name works. The virtual drive will now be created. Once the virtual drive is created, go back to the configuration page, click on the drive you've created.
Switch to the Install components tab. Install the following components: d3dx9 directx9 crypt32 (Might say that it failed. Keep retrying). When the installation is complete, switch to the Display tab.
On the Video memory size, click on the dropdown menu, and pick the number that corresponds to your graphic drive's memory size. Switch to the Wine tab. Click on Configure Wine. In the Windows Version: dropdown menu, pick Windows 10. After you've done that, switch to the Miscellaneous tab. Click on Run a.exe file in this virtual drive.
Navigate to the location where you've downloaded the installation file for SWTOR (Named SWTORsetup.exe). Select it, and click Open. The installation page prompt will now be brought up.
Ignore the error. Pick the language you plan to use, and click next until you are brought to the installation type. DO NOT custom install.
Let the installation do an express installation. After the installation is complete, unselect the option to launch the game, and finish the installation. Congratulations! The game is now installed. Click on Run a.exe file in this virtual drive again. Navigate to the game's folder. This is the the location.
PlayOnMac's virtual Drive - The Name of your wrapper - drivec - Program Files - Electronic Arts - BioWare - Star Wars - The Old Republic - launcher.exe. The launcher will now launch. Type in your credentials and login. An error will come up that say that you require administration rights. Go back to the configuration page.
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Click on Open virtual drive's directory. Navigate again you the game's folder. Open the file launcher.settings using TextEdit.
Change the line, 'bitraiderdisable': false to, 'bitraiderdisable': true. Save the file, and again relaunch the launcher and login with your credentials.
The game will now start downloading. If the administration error comes up again, again open the text file and again disable bitraider and set the patching mode to ssn. Bitraider is annoying and will try to turn itself on again. The game itself will weight about 40GB, so you might as well leave it to download and install over night.
Shut down the launcher when the game finished downloading and installing. Shut down the launcher and go back to the configuration page. Click on Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive. Pick launcher.exe and name the shortcut SWTOR. Tell Wine that you don't want to create any more shortcuts.
The shortcut will appear on your desktop. Follow to this GitHub link and download the file titled swtorfix.exe. Again open SWTOR's directory as we did earlier on when changing launcher settings. Drag the swtorfix.exe file from your Downloads folder directly into the game's folder.
Back on PlayOnMac, click on the Miscellaneous tab, and click on Open a shell. If you are prompted an install/update for XQuartz, go ahead and do it. If PlayOnMac has issues installing/updating it, go ahead and install it manually. We will write a tiny script to launch swtorfix.exe before the game launches. This will ensure that you are not stuck at the character pick loading screen. Copy-pasting would be the safest bet: export LANG='enUS.UTF-8' POLShortcutInsertBeforeWine 'SWTOR' 'POLWine start /unix swtorfix.exe ' $@ ' The game should now launch. AND WE ARE DONE!
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All you have to do next time you want to play the game is double click the shortcut and you are good to go ?. So what works and doesn't work currently? Everything works! I tested every aspect of the game from character creation to Knights of the Fallen Empire Eternal Throne United Forces Galactic Legends!
I've also written an Android app that solves the pylon puzzle from the Eternity Vault raid. If the mods are okay with it, I'd like to link the app for people to give it a try:3. You don't need to add swtorfix back in, the thing it fixes is actually included in current staging versions. It's swtorfix essentially does the same thing as a staging patch that just isn't included in non-staging wine because it might cause some issues with other programs theoretically (even though i know of none that actually are affected).
But you might want to change the 'this works on linux too' link pointing to the dead playonlinux projects to one that points at which is currently the best method to play it on linux (essentially a one-click solution that does everything described in this article automatically, with a current staging wine version).
In this post I want to show you how to install Wine on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (it should be also applicable for Snow Leopard 10.6, Leopard 10.5, and Tiger 10.4) via MacPorts. UPDATE: For those of you who have upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion, you will be surprised that Wine will no longer work because Apple removes the X11 from Mountain Lion. The solution is you have to install XQuartz as the substitute of X11.
You can download and install the XQuartz from. Download the MacPorts from. Select the appropriate file to meet with your Mac version. Note that you must have XCode and X11 (XQuartz in Mountain Lion) window environment installed in the system. Once it’s downloaded, double-click the dmg file and follow the on-screen installation process. You have to be connected to internet while installing the MacPorts because it downloads the port files in a background process. Once the MacPorts has been successfully installed, check whether the ‘port’ command is already in your PATH or not.
In Mac OS X Lion, it should be already in the PATH. Otherwise run the below command to export the port into the PATH.
$ export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin 4. I have XCode4 on my MacBook OSX 10.7.2, but sudo port install wine returns: — Computing dependencies for pkgconfig — Configuring pkgconfig Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details) Log for pkgconfig is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/optlocalvarmacportssourcesrsync.macports.orgreleaseportsdevelpkgconfig/pkgconfig/main.log Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1 Error: Unable to execute port: upgrade pkgconfig failed To report a bug, see Have you run into this or heard of this?
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