Mac Users - Warning! (OS X Lion)

Wrexsoul · July 24, 2011, 10:06:17 AM

For those of you who didn't know (like me!), the new OS X Lion no longer supports Power-PC apps, meaning NWN will no longer work!

There might be a workaround, I don't know, but fair warning to all of you. Lion seems awesome, otherwise, but unless you have bootcamp, do some research before buying it.

If anyone knows of a fix, please tell me, since I'm really not looking forward to having to boot in Windows every time I want to play NWN. :/

9lives · July 24, 2011, 12:08:48 PM

Even if you have rosetta installed already?

Wrexsoul · July 24, 2011, 12:12:38 PM

Yeah, apparently - Rosetta is no longer supported at all. I've done some googling, but so far all the solutions I could find were about emulating Snow Leopard in a virtual machine or having it installed on a separate partition or so.

Bleh. :/

9lives · July 24, 2011, 12:45:40 PM

No big, I suppose. NWN is better in Windows anyway. Higher resolutions.

9lives · July 24, 2011, 12:47:01 PM

Remember that your NWN CD keys are cross-platform.

Wrexsoul · July 24, 2011, 01:11:44 PM

Yep - I'm actually using my keys from my old windows NWN for the mac. It seems there's no real solution but to run it in BootCamp, at the moment, so I'll do that.

*sighs*

9lives · July 24, 2011, 01:53:51 PM

You'll be able to alt-tab and see shit in high-res widescreen.

lakhena · October 24, 2011, 05:01:30 PM

*spank* I'm not really around, but here's one solution to your mac woes, which I've been posting on all the servers I've played on, since I just discovered this over the weekend:

1. I downloaded a copy of nwn diamond edition from gog.com -- it's just under $10

2. installed Crossover Games from Codeweavers. Ran all the installation stuff for nwn using Crossover (just follow the instructions).

3. Located the new C: drive that Crossover created in my Library directory to find all the nwn directories. It's under Library > Application Support > Crossover Games > Bottles > setup_nwn_diamond.exe > drive_c > Program Files > Gog.com

(Seriously, why is it buried THAT deep? And Bottles? What is that? )

4. Dragged and dropped all the haks, erfs, tlks, portraits, and overrides I cared about.

5. Edited the nwnplayer.ini and nwn.ini file (you want to disable the entry movies, as they will not work). Dropped my old CD keys into the nwncdkey.ini files.

6. Hoped I did everything right...

7. Started up nwn with a smile.

Hope that helps! Good gaming, and I might drop by again. (See, forum trolls aren't always a bad thing!)