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6 years ago
Did anybody managed to get zerok running under MacOSX for online play?

Install Arch as a guest in VirtualBox but seems that 3D acceleration is not working as it should. Some posts suggested VMWare Fusion for 3D acceleration and might give it a try, but thought to check first if anybody had more success with any other solution.

(don't want to use the Mac for this, but I travel with work and work laptop is Mac)
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6 years ago
mac is currently broken in many ways
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6 years ago
Ok, so no native, that was my feeling.

FYI it started in Virtual box with software 3D render, but it was kind of slideshow... I think they mention that in VirtualBox the 3D acceleration works with a Windows guest, but that would be even more bleah.

So, anybody managed to get to decent speed with any virtualization technology?
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6 years ago
resign, the resistance is futile
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6 years ago
I would have tried with wine.
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6 years ago
running in a virtual environment is a dead sign too. Spring with ZeroK is only singlethreaded. You can play under virtual environments but only with graphics passthrough, even then you really need a powerful pc and you will really lag performance.
Why not get a real pc? Mac is really good in what it is, but not gaming. :-)
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6 years ago
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(don't want to use the Mac for this, but I travel with work and work laptop is Mac)


DErankChesti: so, basically don't want to carry two laptops just so that I can play spring while not at home.

@Snubbe: Thanks, did not realize wine also works on Mac, will give it a try.
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malric, the answer is bootcamp :P
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6 years ago
Thanks for the suggestion, but can't touch the partitions and boot process (encryption, enterprise management stuff, etc.). Wanted something more "user space".

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6 years ago
Userspace solutions gonna suck performance-wise, wine would be your best bet I think...
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6 years ago
Gaming on a MAC?

Pls leave, just leave...
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6 years ago
someone likes it spicy :P
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6 years ago
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Gaming on a MAC?


Gaming on an Arch Linux for now, but trying to game more :-p.

Yes, from all the "user space" wine is best if it works. Did not had a chance to give it a try yet..
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6 years ago
For reference: both last dev and last available stable version of wine do not seem to work with zerok, although it install it, but it fails to create a OpenGL 3.0 context.

Next idea: use a bootable USB stick with linux on it.
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