Can it run on Mac?

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I am sure this has been answered but I have been looking through the forums and stuff but i can't find if you can play the open Beta or at launch on a Mac. Please if someone can give me the quick yes or no or tell me where to look that would be great.

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No plans for a Mac version so far, as far as we have heard. However, if you have an Intel mac with Windows installed, you can use that to play STO.

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I am sure this has been answered but I have been looking through the forums and stuff but i can't find if you can play the open Beta or at launch on a Mac. Please if someone can give me the quick yes or no or tell me where to look that would be great.

No, it is not playable on the mac itself. However you can try using the game with Boot Camp or VMFusionware and then run it that way. I am going to try VMFusion as soon as it EVER gets done DL'ing.

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Under bootcamp it is fine, however we do not support running emulation (VMWare, Parallels, Wine, etc).

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It works perfectly under Boot Camp, I've been doing it since closed beta and all is well. Just make sure to update the ATI/NVIDIA drivers to the newest ones available online instead of those provided with the Leopard/Snow Leopard install DVD. I've been playing on the system in my signature. :D

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Under bootcamp it is fine, however we do not support running emulation (VMWare, Parallels, Wine, etc).

You guys should look at porting the game using Cider. From my understanding it is much easier than native client/app. But I don't know programming, so what do I know? :p

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I plan on running it on my MacBook; 2.2 Ghz processor, 2 GB RAM, which I'm sure will all be fine. My question is in regards to the GMA X3100 video card in it. Ran WoW fine, but figured I'd ask before getting the game; will it run STO well?

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I plan on running it on my MacBook; 2.2 Ghz processor, 2 GB RAM, which I'm sure will all be fine. My question is in regards to the GMA X3100 video card in it. Ran WoW fine, but figured I'd ask before getting the game; will it run STO well?
Well, no. At all, probably. Intel GPUs are not terribly useful, but you should probably be able to run the game at least.

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Was afraid of that. Well, if it can run it at all I'll give it a shot. Suppose I can keep the video settings to a minimum. I don't need it to look spectacular, I just need it to work. Reckon I'll give the beta a try before I get the game, assuming of course I can get Windows boot camped before launch. Would I be correct in assuming beta keys become useless after the game launches?

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Intel GPUs are not terribly useful...

Quoted for truth. Intel should be banned from even calling those things GPUs. All they really are is a DVI plug into the back of the machine. :rolleyes:

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it works on VMWare Fusion, but its a little sluggish.

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Quoted for truth. Intel should be banned from even calling those things GPUs. All they really are is a DVI plug into the back of the machine. :rolleyes:

At Intel, GPU stands for 'Gimped Processing Unit".

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it works on VMWare Fusion, but its a little sluggish.

QFT

Currently running STO in VMWare Fusion (WinXP SP3 guest OS) on my Mac Pro. Works perfect, sluggishness seems to be more a general lag issue.

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Under bootcamp it is fine, however we do not support running emulation (VMWare, Parallels, Wine, etc).

booooo i just spent all day yesterday downloading the beta onto Parallels : (

oh well i guess i could just play WoW for a few more months lol

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I'm running perfectly in Boot Camp, works great in VMware Fusion (full disclosure, I've turned down the graphics to 1920X1200), and in Parallels, the game starts, but crashes out halfway through loading (once it hits the Atari screen), and that appears to be where it's loading graphics stuff.

I'm still holding out hope for a native client or an official Cider/Crossover port, but until that happens, VMware is working.

I'd love to see if there's any movement on the Wine front, though.

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Still not work working for me in Fusion 3.0.1 running Windows 7 64Bit. What Fusion-Version and Guest-OS are you guys running?

Regards,
Rainer

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Still not work working for me in Fusion 3.0.1 running Windows 7 64Bit. What Fusion-Version and Guest-OS are you guys running?

Regards,
Rainer

I had a hard time getting it running until I adjusted my settings for Fusion. I'm running on a quad core with 4GB ram, and split everything 50/50 with Fusion (2 cores, 2GB ram). That made things run a bit more smoothly. Be advised, though - it's still not PERFECT. There's some UI stuttering and mouse issues for me. I'm playing in Boot Camp most of thie time until I can get everything figured out.

Rumor out there is that in 10.6.3, Apple is adding in more support for OpenGL 3.0. I don't know if this will make much difference, but It'll be interesting to see.

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Mac support with something like Cider would be really great. Hope the devs consider this down the road.

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will someone please help me bootcamp? I got parrells installed windows but I couldn't get it to work maybe someone would be so kind walk me through it step by step, its gonna be possible. i've been having problems since day 1 and I would like to play it...

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For anyone interested in testing it on OS X, forum member doh123 has a Wine app that lets you install / run the game. Its got some graphical issues but other than that it runs pretty good and the more feedback we get the better. Link below.

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=76799

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For anyone interested in testing it on OS X, forum member doh123 has a Wine app that lets you install / run the game. Its got some graphical issues but other than that it runs pretty good and the more feedback we get the better. Link below.

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=76799

theres a decent work around for the graphical issues now I put up... just something you type in game and no more graphics issues at all :-) well Fonts are still ugly... working on that as number 1 right now since its possible to get rid of the smearing bug.

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no more graphics smearing bug in STO using Wine... its fixed

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At CodeWeavers, we've been doing a lot of work on Wine to get STO to work on Wine. There are instructions at winehq.org to do it with Wine. We've also put up a build of CrossOver Games that will make it easy to install and run:
http://www.codeweavers.com/support/forums/unsupported/?t=21;msg=72782

Cheers,

Jeremy

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At CodeWeavers, we've been doing a lot of work on Wine to get STO to work on Wine. There are instructions at winehq.org to do it with Wine. We've also put up a build of CrossOver Games that will make it easy to install and run:
http://www.codeweavers.com/support/forums/unsupported/?t=21;msg=72782

Cheers,

Jeremy

Codeweavers rocks :)