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Oic. Yeah, it's not a great situation :P I've been considering bootcamping Win7 for a while now, might give in
Cheers for the help anyway
Oic. Yeah, it's not a great situation :P I've been considering bootcamping Win7 for a while now, might give in
Cheers for the help anyway
Great! BIS games is the only reason I still have to finance this danger for the free market and defacto-monopolist from Redmond.
Before we were forced to use "just another datacollecting and advertising imposing machine on users machine like steam" my signature went like this for many, many years:
"There was once a dark age when players were herded like cattle down rigid gaming paths - and Bohemia Interactive Studios were the Che Guevara types who set them free."Watch n' listen: Thank you, Bohemia for fascinating games since 2001. Engine: Win8 32-Bit on AMD64 6000 X2 (2 x 3100 MHz) * NVidia 9600 GT 1024 MByte * 1920 x 1080 pixels * 27'' TFT * RAM 3 GByte - it all works very smooth especially because of SSD!
Updated with a mod-downloading script and a few tips for getting CO working.
I've actually just found PlayOnMac - this seems much better than WineSkin. You can download multiple versions of WINE and have multiple prefixes at the same time - I suggest grabbing downloading PlayOnLinux-wine-1.4-rc4-raw3-darwin and PlayOnLinux-wine-1.3.27-rawinput2-darwin and trying them out - they might work better than the hack at that forum.Originally Posted by MaskedTurk
Oic. Yeah, it's not a great situation :P I've been considering bootcamping Win7 for a while now, might give in
Cheers for the help anyway
Download section - choose amd64 (64bit) or x86 (32bit) darwin, download the packages and install the version of WINE (I'd start with the raw3 one) then click Install in the app and choose 'Install unsupported package' in the bottom left. You should be able to install Steam through this (be sure to create a shortcut in the menu) and ARMA II/OA through Steam.
I did exactly this. (Running Lion 10.7.4)
My mouse works finally in the menu but moves into wrong directions ingame every second move. Hard to play this way
Dont you have this problem?
- Virtual Operations (vo.1) -
Unfortunately, WINE and OSX seem to have a few issues with mouse/keyboard input. I'm not entirely sure what you mean, though. The mouse goes in the wrong direction half the time? Does this affect the keyboard or mouse clicks?
The raw3 patch is unsupported - it's not part of WINE and the developers are not planning to adopt it. However, if you own any of these games, you may want to confirm if this issue appears in them. If so, you may want to tell the author of raw3.patch that there is a problem with the patch on your version of OSX, but the patch is a jury rigged band-aid - it would take several months of focused development to really get this input system working properly in WINE on Linux, nevermind Darwin-specific issues.
The mouse moves on every 2nd move in a wrong direction. Most times its moving fast to the left or top left (when you try to turn right for example). Its unplayable that way as you may imagine. I have a Win7 hdd to play arma, but hate it to switch the OS. It was just a try for me if it is possible.
I read about this wrong moving mouse before, but cant remember where right now.
This is likely similar to the other OSX issues, related to the OSX implementation of xinput2. If you're willing to try something that has the (unlikely) potential to break things in your system, download the latest version of XQuartz - this is X11.app, previously officially supported by Apple but now an externally-developed open source project. Updating to the latest open source version could overcome these issues, but does have potential to cause other issues. More information on what I presume to be the bug applicable to OSX is here.
If you're willing to try it, please do report back with your results
Added links to Dev-Heaven tickets for the current problems, some have been fixed by either BiS or WINE in the most recent WINE releases and beta ARMA 2 OA builds.
EDIT: Also added a bash script to install a minimal version of WINE on a headless server to run the latest arma2oaserver.exe betas (which lack a Linux version at the moment).
Last edited by Kindling; Jul 21 2012 at 19:57.
Nice
BIS products presently main reason to leave Microsoft stuff on my box, after Spring engine start moving[and SupCom1 ladder nearly abandon].
maybe in highlight of recent turning toward Linux support, Intel sposnor/hire some BIS developers to make native port of Arma2 game to Linux ?
that could be complementary beneficiary for both corporations :-)
let alone [possible]customers happines/satisfaction amount
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