EB for Macintosh - questions & support thread

[Tellos Athenaios]

Added a request in the website text to post bugs & fixes for the Mac OSX packages in this thread.

[Edwin@Feral]

Added a request in the website text to post bugs & fixes for the Mac OSX packages in this thread.

Thanks!

Edwin

[Blazing141]

This is Great!! One Question: Can I play using the Alex executable or the BI executable? Does it have night battles, retraining, etc.?

[Edwin@Feral]

This is Great!! One Question: Can I play using the Alex executable or the BI executable? Does it have night battles, retraining, etc.?

Alexander is not available on the Mac
I have not tested using the BI executable but it should work fine as BI & Rome code wise are extremely similar.

[ganstamaori]

Thanks, Edwin. I'm now playing EB.

Something you might be interested to know, as I think this might be causing problems for others who have been crashing at the same spot:

It seems that whenever I install the rtw patch upon reinstalling the game, it results in the game CTD whenever I hit -mod:EB. As long as I do not install the patch, EB works fine. I don't really mind though, as the patch only seemed to fix problems my mac wasn't experiencing playing rtw.

[Edwin@Feral]

Thanks, Edwin. I'm now playing EB.

Something you might be interested to know, as I think this might be causing problems for others who have been crashing at the same spot:

It seems that whenever I install the rtw patch upon reinstalling the game, it results in the game CTD whenever I hit -mod:EB. As long as I do not install the patch, EB works fine. I don't really mind though, as the patch only seemed to fix problems my mac wasn't experiencing playing rtw.

That does seem bizarre did you get any errors pop up during the installer process? If you ever do it again and can reproduce it it would be great if you can send me the logs from the installer terminal window for me to have a look at. thanks for letting me know

Cheers,

Edwin

[ganstamaori]

No errors seem pop up during the installer process at all, oddly enough.

[Jackaloboulos]

Alexander is not available on the Mac
I have not tested using the BI executable but it should work fine as BI & Rome code wise are extremely similar.

Awesome!! How do I play EB on the BI executable, though? I've heard a number of people say different things, but I'm not sure I understand how to do it on my MacBook.

[Ferromancer]

Edwin, I maintain an installer which patches BI so it can run with EB. Most of the hard work is done in a .NET 2.0 dll which should be directly portable to Mono. There is also an NSIS installer script, which would need to be translated into whatever Mac uses an installer. There are very few files copied unpacked from the installer, as that would bloat it beyond belief. PM me if you're interested in knowing more about it.

[Jackaloboulos]

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