wine users - Dec 2011 - Playing new Star Wars MMO on MacOS 10.6

Hi,
Wine looks like a great way to be able to play games that were only released on
Windows... Is anyone currently using it to play the new star wars MMO?  If so,
can you share with me how is it working for you?

I have a older 24" iMac (which is intel based - 2007) and based on what I
am reading on the game site as well as here I think Wine would work (provided
that the game is supported).  The SWTOR web site is saying that it SHOULD work
with bootcamp, but that would also require buying a copy of windows as well as
carving out hard disk space etc. - all to play a game that I am not sure would
run or function properly.  Wine seems to be a much better solution.

I appreciate any feedback or suggestions from the community.

Thanks,
Scott

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29168

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:04 PM, sd_fuller <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
> Wine looks like a great way to be able to play games that were only
released on Windows... Is anyone currently
> using it to play the new star wars MMO? ?If so, can you share with me how
is it working for you?
Please take time to search through the Forums before posting.  You
would have found that this program is NOT working as it should with
Wine at the present time.

James

Thanks.  I did search the site and found a number of posts, but not the bug one.
Man, I was getting excited from reading that people were having success with it.
Is everyone having this issue I wonder?

Scott

On 12/28/2011 3:43 PM, sd_fuller wrote:  Is everyone having this issue I 
wonder?


I know several people who have/are trying but do not know anyone (myself 
included) who has gotten the live version to work through wine. We all 
with get stuck at the splash screen/server selection.

Thanks again!  It seems that there is not ANY really good solution at the
moment.  I see people having issues with bootcamp as well.  The ones that can
get on are having laggy or slow frame rates.  A few have suggested that having
more ram (like 8 gigs or more) will help performance.  I have the max for my
system which is 4, so not sure if even Wine will work (once the bug is tracked
down and fixed).

Thanks to all for your responses and I will keep watching the bug tracker thread
to see if/when a solution is found.  Too bad they did not just make a Mac OS
version like blizzard did for WoW.

Scott

On 12/28/11 2:54 PM, sd_fuller wrote:
> Thanks again!  It seems that there is not ANY really good solution at the
moment.  I see people having issues with bootcamp as well.  The ones that can
get on are having laggy or slow frame rates.  A few have suggested that having
more ram (like 8 gigs or more) will help performance.  I have the max for my
system which is 4, so not sure if even Wine will work (once the bug is tracked
down and fixed).
Wine should work and if your machine is limited to 4GB of ram, it may 
also be 32 bitness.

Using BootCamp just allows you to install Windows alongside MacOSX.  
Windows7 has a minimum requirement of 4GB of ram to run well (not the 
best, just well).

James

Thanks - So it sounds like if/when the bug is resolved that Wine would be the
way to go.  Now it is just a matter of having the smart Wine community figure
out how to overcome the issues at hand.

Scott

I keep tracking the bug report - is that the best way to determine if/when WINE
would work for my gaming purposes?

Thanks, Scott