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1. How To Play Steam Windows Games On Mac With Wine Vinegar
2. How To Play Windows Steam Games On Mac With Wine

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The game that i want to play (MW2) requires steam support, I bought the game and wanted to bootcamp my mac. But then i kinda sisliked the whole bootcamp idea. Should i just make a steam account and put the game there? As i start MW2 from a wrapper it says: 'Steam should be running, in order for this game to be played.' – DailyDoggy Jun 7 '11. The easiest way this works is you need a Windows running machine first, install the game on it, then copy that installed folder onto your Mac. Then, run OpenRCT2 on the Mac and when the program asks for the game folder, you direct it to the folder you transferred earlier.

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hi, i'm pretty new (to steam, gaming and computer programming-type stuff) and i have a mac, which i know isn't that great for games usually, but i'd still like to play what i can. i've been looking into playing some windows-only games recently (like the sims or guild wars) and i did some googling around and found this guide, but i spent almost six hours yesterday trying to figure this out, and i'm having some problems.
i'm not very experienced with programming or command line, so i just followed the instructions i found blindly, which might have overcomplicated things. i'm gonna explain what i did in possibly too much detail in case something's important:
1. launch xcode (which i had already) and install the command line tools.
2. go into terminal and accept the end-user license agreement for xcode (sudo xcodebuild -license).
3. update macports, which i already had (sudo port -v selfupdate).
4. go to terminal, enter 'echo export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH$'n'export MANPATH=/opt/local/man:$MANPATH | sudo tee -a /etc/profile' (no response) and then 'if [ `sysctl -n hw.cpu64bit_capable` -eq 1 ] ; then echo '+universal' | sudo tee -a /opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf; else echo 'not 64bit capable'; fi' (got +universal).
5. close terminal, reopen, enter 'sudo port install wine.' wait ages for it to finish.
6. try to install windows version of steam. at first i tried the instructions here, but i didn't know what to do about the wineprefix; then i think i just typed in 'wine msiexec /i SteamInstall.msi' and it created ~/.wine (and gave me an error because i hadn't downloaded SteamInstall.msi, like a dumbass).
7. download windows steam.
8. find this guide, try to follow it. enter 'cd ~/.wine' in terminal. then enter 'curl http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks > winetricks.' it seems to download winetricks. then enter 'chmod +x winetricks.' it sends me back to the command prompt.
9. try 'winetricks tahoma,' it tells me winetricks is not a valid command.
10. mess around trying to install winetricks, finally succeed with 'sudo port install winetricks.'
11. try 'winetricks tahoma' again, get this error: 'wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned unexpanded string '%SystemDrive%Program Files' ... can be caused a corrupt wineprefix, an old wine, or by not owning /Users/[username]/.wine'
12. give up on winetricks because i think tahoma's a font anyway and i have it so maybe this is unnecessary.
13. enter 'cd ~/Downloads/' and then 'wine start SteamInstall.msi.' it appears to install steam! the PC version of steam even opens for the initial installation and closes automatically.
14. enter 'cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam' and then 'open ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam.' it opens the folder with steam.exe in finder.
15. enter 'wine steam.exe.' this is where everything explodes. i get the following error: 'fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L'Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' (6.0.0.0)

How To Play Steam Windows Games On Mac With Wine Vinegar

Jul 21 09:28:43 Gigo.local steam.exe[66594] <Error>: ImageIO: PNG Extra compressed data
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x0 1 0x0 0
wine: Unhandled exception 0x40000015 in thread 9 at address 0x478490 (thread 0009), starting debugger...

How To Play Windows Steam Games On Mac With Wine

err:seh:start_debugger Couldn't start debugger ('winedbg --auto 8 84') (2)
Read the Wine Developers Guide on how to set up winedbg or another debugger'
i'm not sure what's happening, and if it's related to the fact that macs can't open .exe files? i guess this is what happens when you try to mess around with command line without knowing anything. what am i supposed to do?
(i also then tried using playonmac, but it wouldn't actually open steam. then i realized that i didn't actually have X11 even though it shows up in my applications folder, so i installed it and then tried again, but i still get the error message.)
(i asked this on the steam forums too, but it seemed like a good idea to ask here.)