Long-time user of Wine for various applications, but for the first time I'm
hitting a brick wall, so I registered here to get some help with my problem.
Short and sweet, I managed to get a friend's copy of Mass Effect about a
year ago, and very much enjoyed it when playing it in Wine. However something in
the DRM or the way it was written must've been changed in the second,
because I recently bought a copy of Mass Effect 2, and after dozens of install
attempts, I've not yet managed to get a single one to work. Almost all have
loaded the launcher, but don't get beyond that.
I'm hoping someone who's more savvy about the software end(I know
hardware well. Programming, not so much) of how Wine interacts with programs can
help me work this out, as it turned out physical copies of ME2 are scarce, so I
spent months hunting this thing down only to spend the past few days with dead
end after dead end. I've cleared all traces of it I can find from Wine, so
you have a blank slate to work with.
Since I figure it's going to be needed to help work things out, I'm
running version 1.2 of Wine on a Mac running OS X("Buy a real
computer" comments begin in 3...2...1...) version 10.6.6. Here's
(http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae43/necrosis1193/Screenshot2011-03-21at81632PM.png?t=1300836045)
a screenshot of the error.
Thanks for any help from anyone who does so, I've been looking forward to
playing this game for months, so I really appreciate any help I can get. :D
necrosis1193 wrote:> 'm running version 1.2 of WineUpgrade. Latest Wine version is wine-1.3.16.
DanKegel wrote:> Well, yes, you can't use ubuntu builds of wine on the mac. > > You could try Crossover from Codeweavers, though.I actually bought a copy of Crossover after about the sixth attempt in Wine failed, and reading good things about it. Same errors. I haven't updated in a few months, but I bought it after ME2 came out, so I wouldn't think that would be an issue?
James McKenzie wrote:> On 3/31/11 8:01 AM, necrosis1193 wrote: > > > DanKegel wrote: > > > > > Well, yes, you can't use ubuntu builds of wine on the mac. > > > > > > You could try Crossover from Codeweavers, though. > > > > > > > I actually bought a copy of Crossover after about the sixth attempt in Wine failed, and reading good things about it. Same errors. I haven't updated in a few months, but I bought it after ME2 came out, so I wouldn't think that would be an issue? > > > > > I realize that I'm a little late on this thread, but please update to > the latest version of CrossOver Games for Mac and try again. If it is > not working, please advise CodeWeavers of your problem through their > support forums. > > James McKenzieThe copy of Crossover I bought was actually the standard version, as I figured that I may use it for other programs in the future. Am I going to have to buy another version now or can the standard version work?
I have not run this one myself.. but people at portingteam.com have been working on a Wineskin wrapper for it for a long time... through several versions of Wineskin. I think the current version is playable, though has a few minor graphics issues... can check the thread out here... though I'm not sure it'll work if you don't sign up for a free account. Wineskin is designed with this kind of customized wrappers in mind, so its already using a custom Wine build with patches to fix the main issues. http://forum.portingteam.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=4587&hilit=mass+effect&start=60