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What the heck is the Unofficial Mac version?
Its a mac .app you can put the Windows version inside of, and run it on Mac OS X without having to install or use Windows! The final product looks and works like a normal Mac .app (for the most part). This download is a "wrapper" not the full game. You will have to either copy your installed version from Windows inside of it (fastest), or reinstall the game into it and do full patching and everything... More specifically, it is a Wineskin wrapper.

just a big note...

this is not made by or supported in any way by Cryptic Studios, or anyone associated with Cryptic Studios.. this is entirely fan made, by me (@doh123)... with the use of my own project called Wineskin

System Requirements are the same as Windows version, since it uses the Windows version, but it runs on Mac OS X 10.6, or 10.7 (10.5 is no longer supported)
Intel GMA950 and X3100 GPUs will not work correctly, or at all.

***Download link is at the bottom of this post in the rainbow section***

How To multitask in Fullscreen!
Use CMD+Opt+A to toggle fullscreen capturing the whole display or not.

Read the directions that come with the download to see how to properly set your resolution or window mode.

If your crashing in Earth Space Dock, you need to try lowering down some graphic settings at least temporarily... turning on half resolution usually works while at ESD.

Bajoran Fire Caves
Weird graphics bug here, that turns the screen gray. How to fix it? Set your graphics setting off of custom settings and set it down to bare minimum low settings... then you should be able to see everything. You can then turn all your graphics settings back up and it should remain fine while your there...

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Click here to download Star Trek Online Unofficial Mac Version 1.4.1 Direct download link hosted through Dropbox.com
The download comes with directions on how to use this wrapper
double click the .zip file to unzip it, it will give you a folder with the wrapper, and directions.
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Backup Download Link at Mediafire-->All STO UMV versions made are available here

Clean it up a bit (read: sound) and I might be interested. Right now up unitl this patch. bootcamp STO has worked well.

thats the plan.. but its nice if people help test things since I do not own every Mac configuration out there to test on myself... which is why I stated its just for testing, and its an alpha...

HI doh123

Thanks for this one and for your answer on the other thread.

I downloaded the link and followed your steps.
1. i must set up the exe
2. the login screen in IE is weird
3. the game started in fullscreen but the view was only on the left top corner i think 1024x768px
4. no sound
5. the font is strange i have tested crossover games the font there was ok
6. nothing at this time more while the server is down i came only to the character selection.

my mac is mac book pro 17" , 3.06GHz CPU, 8 GB RAM, MAC OS X 10.6.2

yes... see the thing I wrote about resolution changing. Xquartz doesn't support proper RANDR so the game tells Wine to change resolutions, and Wine tells Xquartz, and Xquartz says "huh wha?" and doesn't do anything.

Make sure your in game resolution setting is the same as the WineskinSettings.app resolution setting, and it will take up the whole screen. if you run STO in 1024x768, set WineskinSettings.app Screen options to be fullscreen 1024x768, and it'll change the resolution right when it launches... if you change it in game again later, you have to log out and change it again.... its a PITA, but its all I got right now with Xquartz limitations.

the IE screen is messed up looking i know.. but it does work.... i can get it better looking using Winegecko, but the launching button and patching doesn't work right.

I'll try the fix for sound when I can

The fonts in the log in i can fix, thats just font smoothing disabled.... its the in game fonts I'm mainly worried about that are ugly.

Great job doh123, I'm downloading right now and will test this out sometime tonight.

Yeah, rebooting into windows works great. However, I hate windows... and I hate rebooting .. that's why I stick with UNIX based operating systems --> they work!

/me is hoping for a Native OS X app!

I'm trying to install STO from the Collector's Edition DVD, but the install hangs at the first step, namely

DXSETUP.exe /SILENT

I have a 27" iMac, 2.6 GHz i5, Radeon 4850, 4GB RAM, 10.6.2

are you sure its actually hanging? When I test installed from disc, it took well over an hour to install, and it sat in a couple of places for 10 or 15 minutes kind of like it was hung.

It is likely int he future that they will make a port that is Wine or Cider based.... but they will not ever tell anyone that until its common public knowledge. The chances of EVER having an actual native port is practically non-existant since the whole game is based on DirectX, and a Wine/Cider pot would allow them to do it cheaply, and use the same current codebase they use on Windows.

That said, for actual performance, the best way for them to go would be Cider... for one it doesn't rely (much) on anything X11 related, making it very fast... and all they'd have to do is write a Mac compatible Launcher/patcher and let Cider handle the main game... it would be near native, barely being able to tell the difference.

Wine itself is nice, but until it has a quartz driver and is always stuck with X11... its never going to be able to match Cider in performance, and integration to work like a native app.

Revenant13
I also have the 8800GS and I also have this issue. Space works great, especially with GLSL enabled, but Stations are a no-no. I've only docked at two stations but it's definitely "crash city" each time I do. I don't have Windows to fall back on so I have had to get unstuck myself, and I have found that if I log in at non-peak (almost ghost town) times, I can move around stations and interact with NPCs. So I can log in at 4AM CST and beam to my ship real quick like.

Glad to see someone else with the same graphics card as I have is having this issue. It means that there will be a fix someday.