Aion Forum

Hi,
I've managed with some help to run game under Wine in OS X 10.6.1. But it is impossible to run it in CXG due to very old Wine code used in it. Guys from Codeveavers please, stay at newest source because I don't know for what you make people pay...

To run it through Wine you must install it first. You may compile it by your own or use MacPorts. I prefer second way because it is one-click install.

1. Install from here MacPorts.
2. Install from here Porticus.
3. Open Porticus and install wine-devel and winetricks.
   3a. If you are using Snow Leopard and encounter problems installing wine you must install all of its dependencies one after one checking +universal option.
4. Open terminal and write into it:

   winetricks dotnet20
   winetricks vcrun2005
   winetricks d3dx9

5. Now open Finder click Shift+CMD+G and go to:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/
6. Copy here your whole NCSoft folder with Aion installed from Windows installation (ie. Parallels/Bootcamp/VMware).
7. Download from here newest unpacked AION.bin (in file ie. 1.5.0.8.rar), unrar it and put its content into NCSoft/Aion/bin32 folder.
8. Now run game from the Terminal by:

   
   EU:­  wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/NCSoft/AionEU/bin32/aion.exe -ip:206.127.147.28 -port:2106 -cc:2 -noauthgg -lang:enu -noweb
   ­US:  wine  ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/NCSoft/Aion/b­in32/aion.exe -ip:206.127.153.247 -port:2106 -cc:1 -noauthgg -lang:enu -noweb­

9. If this doesn't run you have to do only one more thing:  
9a. In terminal write:  
```sudo pico /etc/launchd.conf```  
and add there a line:  
```limit maxfiles 8192```  
9b. Save files and reboot to make changes go in effects. Confirm if it works by writing into terminal­:  
```ulimit -n```  
It should show you 8192.

Now run game with commends from step 8.

More tips on running Aion under Wine you will find on its wine [AppDB](http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=17877) page.

CrossOver Games uses Wine 1.1.24 I think, which is by now 3 months old. The reason why we can't always ship the newest Wine is testing, and avoiding regressions. CrossOver has a number of hacks to work around driver bugs, which take a while to maintain. Furthermore new Wine versions every now and then break our supported games, so we have to run a full set of tests before shipping, and fix any regressions that occurred...

I know that. And in my opinion 3 months in software development is very long period of time. Especially in so fast developed software as wine is. If you send back more portions of code to Wine and XQuartz you won't have so many regressions, hacks needed to work around driver bugs. But I know that are things for which you get your money. I don't want to make you give them for free. Just stay in time if there are major future releases as their was in Wine lastly. I'm saying now especially about .NET upgrades in wine and random OpenGL fixes, support for OpenAL and so on. It is going to rule the world very fast.

And last but not least my personal tip.
If you put some money into support of Aion you may get big cash on it. Aion may be WoW killer or at least very popular MMO which many of people on Mac would like to play. In preorder it was sold in 400.000 copies. Numbers talking for their own I think. It doesn't have official support for OS X, but as it is using Far Cry 1 engine (which I think is supported/has gold medal in CXG) it would be really easy to make to work. On wine it needs only 3 winetricks and one syshack (which may be done temporary without need to edit any files, just one terminal command before game lunch). It is little unstable but you and wine devs may/will work on it. But it is almost so fast as in the windows.

It is just few days of easy work for you guys to get all players playing in Bootcamp (and hating to switch OSs to run just one app.) Probably including me.

Its getting off topic, but all the improvements in Wine you just cited came from us(except the openal wrapper, which was contributed by Chris Robinson). Close to 100% of our work on Wine is going back to Wine(The big part that does not is the configuration GUI, which is not part of our Wine itself, and out appdefault entries, and of course hacks)

We are working on AION as well - only started recently when they stopped using GameGuard. Currently we're trying to get the .NET launcher working, since we can't ask our customers to copy the game from Windows every time there's an upgrade. It's a lot more than a few days of easy work, but if the launcher isn't as nasty as the LOTRO launcher we should get it going, since our .NET support is getting somewhere after years of work 😊

Stefan Dösinger wrote:

Its getting off topic, but all the improvements in Wine you just
cited came from us(except the openal wrapper, which was contributed
by Chris Robinson). Close to 100% of our work on Wine is going back
to Wine(The big part that does not is the configuration GUI, which
is not part of our Wine itself, and out appdefault entries, and of
course hacks)
Nice to hear that. Didn't know that. Sorry if I in my last comment hurt you.

Stefan Dösinger wrote:

We are working on AION as well - only started recently when they
stopped using GameGuard. Currently we're trying to get the .NET
launcher working, since we can't ask our customers to copy the game
from Windows every time there's an upgrade. It's a lot more than a
few days of easy work, but if the launcher isn't as nasty as the
LOTRO launcher we should get it going, since our .NET support is
getting somewhere after years of work 😊

There are bash scripts to update Aion under linux. Written on the base UniversalLinuxLauncher for NCSoft games.
And here is update code on pastebin.
This is quicker and full functional way to make luncher/updater for Aion in CX.

Oskar Gargas wrote:

Nice to hear that. Didn't know that. Sorry if I in my last comment
hurt you.

I didn't really intend to word the reply as harsh as I did, so no worries.

Oskar Gargas wrote:

There are bash scripts to update Aion under linux. Written on the
base
[link=http://sourceforge.net/projects/ull/]UniversalLinuxLauncher
for NCSoft games[/link].
And here is update code [link=http://pastebin.com/m7df64e1b]on
pastebin[/link].
This is quicker and full functional way to make luncher/updater for
Aion in CX.

But bad to support, and it depends quite a lot on NCSoft's mercy not to change the way how their launcher works. Such launchers are our fallback plan though, somewhat like the way LOTRO works today. Make the game run as good as possible appart of the .NET issue, so users can play it with those launchers. Though we broke LOTRO in cxgames 8.0. Its crashing randomly ☹️

Well I followed your instructions and the farthest I can get the game to load is the login screen for about 5 seconds before it crashes (and it only gets this far about half the time). When I do in fact get to the login screen it is red and I see no background. I have changed the VideoMemorySize but this does not seem to help matters any. I am really on the verge of just giving up and waiting for NCSoft to release an official client.

Any other fixes you can recommend? If you need to look at any of my error codes let me know, but at this point it seemed pretty fruitless.

**Oh and btw, you command line in your original post to actually launch the game does not copy/paste correctly as there are some extraneous characters in there after paste (bin32 section). I fixed it manually but you may want to check the post.

This is probably the virtual memory issue we're currently debugging. NCSoft apparently didn't remove GameGuard entirely. They just disabled it, but GameGuard is still around. It seems that the GameGuard loader sometimes thinks it runs on Win98, most likely due to memory layout issues, and tries to load the Win98 GameGuard driver oreans.vxd - which fails.

Possible causes are drivers that use certain address space ranges, or third party apps injecting themselves into foreign processes. We don't know for sure yet.

Going back through I decided to go from scratch (as I was actually using Fink to build WINE earlier, so I thought I would revert to MacPorts). One question arises though, are you running Snow Leopard in some other fashion? From all I can see there is no x64 version of wine-devel on MacPorts...

Pretty sure I am losing my patience for this entire process....

Stefan Dösinger wrote:

Possible causes are drivers that use certain address space ranges,
or third party apps injecting themselves into foreign processes. We
don't know for sure yet.

GG is some kind of rootkit. It is even reported by many antivirs...

fjordstorm wrote:

Going back through I decided to go from scratch (as I was actually
using Fink to build WINE earlier, so I thought I would revert to
MacPorts). One question arises though, are you running Snow Leopard
in some other fashion? From all I can see there is no x64 version of
wine-devel on MacPorts...

Pretty sure I am losing my patience for this entire process....

Program doesn't need to be 64bit to run on x64 system. Yes I'm running Snow Leopard. If you have problems installing wine through MacPorts look what dependencies wine has and install them one after one using +universal option. And at the end install wine. It will be 32bits but will run on Snow Leopard without glitches.

Fyi, a 64 bit Wine doesn't make much sense at this point. It will only run Win64 apps, which are still pretty rare these days. And even this support is still in development.
(Once Win64 is supported, CrossOver will ship both a 32 bit and 64 bit Wine and use the one that matches the app's architecture, just like multilib support works on OSX, Windows and Linux)

Program doesn't need to be 64bit to run on x64 system. Yes I'm
running Snow Leopard. If you have problems installing wine through
MacPorts look what dependencies wine has and install them one after
one using +universal option. And at the end install wine. It will be
32bits but will run on Snow Leopard without glitches.

Just so I know we are on the same page... According to http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=wine-devel there are 18 dependencies. So I am to go through those 18 with

sudo port install expat +universal

etc etc?

What about their dependencies?

I have to admit I am not a WINE person, so this is not my cup of tea.

Yes it is exact way to do it. Dependencies should also compile in +universal mode.
Personally I'm using Porticus app. It is freeware GUI for MacPorts which for me make it little easier.

Oskar Gargas wrote:

Yes it is exact way to do it. Dependencies should also compile in
+universal mode.
Personally I'm using Porticus app. It is freeware GUI for MacPorts
which for me make it little easier.

Alright, last question. Does wine-devel need +universal or only its dependencies?

I looked at Porticus, but meh its a GUI....

fjordstorm wrote:

Oskar Gargas wrote:

Yes it is exact way to do it. Dependencies should also
compile in +universal mode.
Personally I'm using Porticus app. It is freeware GUI for MacPorts
which for me make it little easier.

Alright, last question. Does wine-devel need +universal or only its
dependencies?

I looked at Porticus, but meh its a GUI....

Only it's dependencies. Wine doesn't have +universal even. That +universal means that app/lib will be compiled in both 32 and 64 bits architectures. It helps with problems when wine before compile shouts with errors that it can't find 32bit libs of some kind...

Oskar Gargas wrote:

fjordstorm wrote:

Oskar Gargas wrote:

Yes it is exact way to do it.

Dependencies should also compile in +universal mode.
Personally I'm using Porticus app. It is freeware GUI for
MacPorts
which for me make it little easier.

Alright, last question. Does wine-devel need +universal or only
its
dependencies?

I looked at Porticus, but meh its a GUI....

Only it's dependencies. Wine doesn't have +universal even. That
+universal means that app/lib will be compiled in both 32 and 64
bits architectures. It helps with problems when wine before compile
shouts with errors that it can't find 32bit libs of some kind...

Success I am in...

Hello,

I'm now trying for a couple of hours to install wine_devel and winetricks under OS 10.6.1 but it doesn't work anyway. I've followed all the instructions which are in this HowTo but I have no more ideas. I've installed all dependencies of wine_devel and winetricks manually but when i try to install these apps(?) i got evrytime error-messages.

wine_devel:

Error: You cannot install wine-devel for the architecture(s) i386 (I'm not running the 64bit kernel btw.)
because /opt/local/lib/libexpat.dylib does not contain the architecture i386.
Error: Target org.macports.extract returned: incompatible architectures in dependencies
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

winetricks:

Error: wine 1.0.1 is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 or later. Until wine 1.2 is released, please install wine-devel instead.
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: incompatible Mac OS X version
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: wine
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

What am I doing wrong?
Hope you can help me, I'd love to play Aion on MacOSX!

I don't know what can make your problem. > winetricks:

Error: wine 1.0.1 is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
Until wine 1.2 is released, please install wine-devel instead.
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: incompatible Mac OS X
version
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: wine
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

This is for sure report not from winetricks but from wine (not wine-devel).

Please update your mac ports by sudo port selfupdate (or by a button in Porticus) and try again.
And install expat with +universal parameter because it is for sure installed on your mac only in 64bits.

Thank you very much for the reply, now i've installed wine-devel and winetricks with the help of your tipps.
But when i try to open "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/" now it says that there isn't such a folder.
So what can i do?

Have you run wine..? When it is run for first time it creates that folder.
Open terminal and type winecfg.

Yes I ran winecfg, but there is still no such folder in finder.
This is how it looks like, i can't even set it manually.

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/4067/bildschirmfoto20091009u.png

Finder by default doesn't show hidden folders (starded by . (dot)). Use option 'Go to' and go to ~/.wine
If this doesn't work... so I don't know. On Leopard and Snow Leopard it is working. I've tested it. And on every machine it should if everything has been done in proper way.

Well, thank you again for your help, I've now managed to start the game but everytime it causes an Error.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/4067/bildschirmfoto20091009u.png

Perhaps because of the old game.dll and crysystem.dll of patch 1.5.0.8. There is now a new patch 1.5.0.9.

The same happens if i emulate a virtual desktop (with winecfg).

Edit: Managed to solve the problem by changing the "-lang:enu" to "-lang:deu" (got the german client) within the start-command and it now works pretty perfect except of the cursor problem, when i try to move the camera by holding the right mouse button. Hope i'll find a solution for this, too.

Thank you very much Oscar for your help!

I really would like to thank Oskar and others on this thread. It helped me a lot (!!!) in manage to run AION on mac.
There's few bugs around, but it works !

edit : May I ask something ? When I ran Aion, it runs in a window with a title bar. Is there a possibility to hide this title bar ?
Because of it, I miss the bottom part of the screen, and resizing the window won't change anything.... thanks in advance

Hi Oskar,

really stoked at the idea to get this working, but I have a failure in the Porticus steps.

Port command started with PID 5765
Computing dependencies for expat
Configuring expat
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_expat/work/expat-2.0.1" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-dependency-tracking --mandir=/opt/local/share/man " returned error 77
Command output: checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin10.0.0
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin10.0.0
checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.2
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
Executing: /opt/local/bin/port install expat +universal

which is a shame. Not sure why it didnt work, as you can see, I am running SL and was trying to install all the dep's individually.

Thanks in advance,

Warren.

try to clean expat. There is an option in menu to do this (clean or wipe... dont remember atm)
If this doesn't work you may try this.
It is prebuild version of Wine for OS X. But is partially gui.. and the gui has some bugs. Don't know how it works but should work.

Thanks for the advice, but I can get nothing to install with porticus, it's not limited to expat.
the linked wine install looks excellent, but I cannot get it to show the gui after the initial startup, and shell commands don't work from terminal. I think my aion project has just become terminal!

UPDATED.

I found that installing Snow Leopard had 'cleaned up' the xcode install I had in 10.5
Using optional installs I have put xcode back in, and am in the process of installing wine/winetricks, via 'ports.

UPDATE2

Still frustratingly close, but not there. installing all the 17 deps with +universal, but mesa still refuses to go in.
it reports other deps not available from web.

The self-contained install looks like it works, but doesn't use the same install routes, so you cannot use standard terminal commands. using it's own file manager crashes on the splash screen.

Thanks anyway. Look forward to CXG supporting officially, or NCsoft doing a cider job like CoH.

Thanks for the help!!

I love that someone has a way to play till CodeWeaver is able to get a bottle running so I can play it like I play Guild Wars.

My only problem Oskar is that I get this error when trying to instal the wine-devel:
Port command started with PID 515
Computing dependencies for wine-devel
Error: Unable to execute port: can't read "build.cmd": Failed to locate 'make' in path: '/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin' or at its MacPorts configuration time location, did you move it?

How do I get it to install. I have searched but have found not suggestion to fix the problem. I have tried the bootcamp option but it crashes continuously when playing, within 5 min -- driving me crazy and I am seeking other options.

I installed on my powerbook cause I dont want trouble with Mac Pro and issues with all my data.

My MacBookPro is pre 2006, possible late 2006 with ATI Radeon x1600 and I am on snow lepoard.

I installed the software you recommended MacPorts and POrticus and it is in Porticus that gives the error.

Any suggestions?

Thanks truly.

Jac

I discovered the problem. Some how when I upgraded to Snow Lep -- XCode and X11 got dropped off. Since I reinstalled, it worked at loading. Still going thru the steps to get AION up and running. Will keep you posted.

Jac

Ok,

I managed to load everything and even can access the folder to place my NCsoft copy to appropriate area (Win XP copy from my bootcamp), I even change the files in the bin32 folder but I cannot launch and this is the message I get:

When I try to launch from terminal to load the game this is the error message I get:
jacqueline-bickels-macbook-pro-17:~ jacquelinebickel$ wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/NCsoft/Aion/b­in32/aion.exe -ip:206.127.153.247 -port:2106 -cc:1 -noauthgg -lang:enu -noweb
wine: cannot find '/Users/jacquelinebickel/.wine/drive_c/Program'

And when I do your suggestion sudo pico /etc/launchd.conf it gives me the following:

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts

there is no password on this computer -- I dont understand what password.
When I leave it blank it give me the same message

Any suggestions?

Thanks for your time and help.

Jac

Jacqueline Bickel wrote:

When I try to launch from terminal to load the game this is the
error message I get:
jacqueline-bickels-macbook-pro-17:~ jacquelinebickel$ wine
~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/NCsoft/Aion/b­in32/aion.exe
-ip:206.127.153.247 -port:2106 -cc:1 -noauthgg -lang:enu -noweb
wine: cannot find '/Users/jacquelinebickel/.wine/drive_c/Program'

put backshlash '\' before space in Program Files - Program\ Files

Jacqueline Bickel wrote:

And when I do your suggestion sudo pico /etc/launchd.conf it gives
me the following:

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your

typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts

there is no password on this computer -- I dont understand what
password.
When I leave it blank it give me the same message

You must have password for your account. It won't work with a blank one.

Still with the change cannot get it to load in terminal.

put backshlash '\' before space in Program Files - Program\ Files

I did the next suggestion for the sudo pico /etc/launchd.conf
I created a password and it does load.
New problem when I add the line and try to save -- I cannot get it to do so.

This line appears at the bottom but it will not exit either.

^G Get Help ^O WriteOut ^R Read File ^Y Prev Page ^K Cut Text ^C Cur Pos
^X Exit ^J Justify ^W Where Is ^V Next Page ^U UnCut Text^T To Spell

Did I do something wrong?
I entered the command then enter with no response.
Then I entered the character for Exit and it did not respond.

When I try just to launch with the changed code it gives me this:

jacqueline-bickels-macbook-pro-17:~ jacquelinebickel$ wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/NCsoft/Aion/b­in32/aion.exe -ip:206.127.153.247 -port:2106 -cc:1 -noauthgg -lang:enu -noweb
wine: cannot find '/Users/jacquelinebickel/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/NCsoft/Aion/b?in32/aion.exe'

The file is there I verified but not sure why it gives the error.

I an not good in using terminal that or creating wine, that is why I use CodeWeaver to avoid such, but my nephew who uses my computer is dying to play aion, so that is why I installed bootcamp and all attempts there work for 5 min then crash, so looking of alternatives. Update of the drivers did not help either.

This is teaching me coding which is sorta fun in a weird way. Me, I love Guild and eventually too will play Aion but want in on the mac and not a bootable.

I will keep trying.

Thanks again for your help and time.

Jac

In the

limit maxfiles 8192

I figured out I was using the wrong command key, but it ask for a File Name to Write: /ete/launchd.conf
It gives the following options:
^G Get Help ^T To Files M-M Mac Format M-P Prepend
^C Cancel M-D DOS Format M-A Append M-B Backup File

I am at a loss.
But I will keep plugging at it.

Jac

I managed to get it the save the limit maxfiles to 8122 and confirmed:
jacqueline-bickels-macbook-pro-17:~ jacquelinebickel$ ulimit -n
8192

Unfortunately I cannot launch -- it still says
wine: cannot find '/Users/jacquelinebickel/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/NCsoft/Aion/b?in32/aion.exe'

I am at a loss. But will continue to plug away.

Could it be because in the Aion/bin32/aion.exe -- kind indicates documents in stead of microsoft executable?

No matter what I do, the aion.exe want to open with text editor. Prior I had CodeWeavers Games and it wanted to open CodeWeaver, so it was suggested to remove the get aion launched and then reinstall CodeWeaver Games -- so now instead of wanting to load with CrossOver it wants to launch text editor. Could this be the problem.

Each time I erase and reload it does the same.

I will try removing the folder and reapplying a clean version -- just curious.

jac

So firs. It would much more unstable in wine then it is in bootcamp. If doesn't works in windows for you thera are no chances that it will be more stable in wine/crossover. Those programs are trying to emulate windows API (just trying, there are very for from beeing perfect). I managed to run Aion but it is unstable. It crashes on my MBP after 20-30 minuts. In PvP or so it is totally unplayable.

For your problems.
to save file and exit from pico type ^X (ctrl+x) and after that just hit enter.
if it gives an error for that space in 'Program Files' you can do two things. First - simpler: move whole aion directory to.. lets say c:/ so it would be something like c:/Aion/bin32 and then run game with modified comand (wine c:/Aion/bin32/aion.bin -commands -commands.... etc.)
or download this, unzip and put proper exe to your aion folder (not bin32) and then write in terminal 'winefile' and navigate to your aion directory and just double click this custom exe to run aion.

What I find interesting Oskar is that it runs in bootcamp on my laptop. It gets too hot, told fan issue after about 40 min then shuts off. I can tell cause the heat penetrates. I was told that if I ran off wine or version there of, that the heat would not be a problem.

Dont get me wrong-- I had to decrease the performance of the ati radeon x1600 video card to do it.

I notice that if I have two fans on (bottom to cool and one blowing on keyboards that I can play for about 70 minutes before it shuts down. If I wait ten minutes for the system to cool down then I can log back in to play some more for about the same. Its a hassle but I am able to play. I would like to play longer without issues on my macbook pro.

I would prefer to just to keep play on the os for mac versus dual booting.

I forgot to mention that despite your good instructions in wine, I still cannot get the aion.exe to load. Not sure why.

Even tried with a new clean NCsoft folder on the reload. Puzzling.

Jac

Hi,

I am on mac pro with os-x 10.5.8. I have followed your step with no problems but when I launch the game I have the error:
"
AionProtectError: 07

Cannot open oreans.vxd driver. Make sure that oreans.vxd is not open by another program.
"

It seems it has something to do with gameguard but my aion install is fresh and updated. I installed it within a parrallels win xp installation.

Can someone help me there ?

if your trying this method now,
you will have problems since the latest updates.
you can not use any of these extensions to run the game -port:2106 -cc:1 -lang:enu -noweb
the only one you can use now is a must, due to the fact that without admin permissions you cant ping the server.
so you need to add -ip:206.127.153.247 for US and -ip:206.127.147.28 for EU. to disable GameGuard just add -noauthgg
. however http://fyyre.ivory-tower.de/ has some tools that may be able to help, im sorry i cant test this myself since i dont have a mac.

Just FWIW...it seems this title may be also affected by a winebug;

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20047

Cheers!

oh man i cant believe you held out on us, i was going to make a linux launcher myself

yeah i had that error for ages until i did 2 things to fix it, the first was add "aion.exe" -noauthgg
then i download xinput1_3.dll and move it into .cxgames/win2000/drive_c/windows/system32 which got rid of the second error
and the login error was fixed by adding -ip:206.127.153.247 or -ip:206.127.147.28 for eu
apart from that all i did was change security, also in tips.
not had a single problem running the game since.
oh and i don't recommend using someone else's .exe 's any more. make your own.

that really stopped all crashes for me. and now i run with 60fps and only mouse problem which i have submitted the patch to codeweavers.

Hi there. Since the 1.5.1.3 and 1.5.1.4 update I'm unable to play under Macosx.
I tried a lot of things, including a fresh install, but it didn't work.
If I follow your last step, copying aion.bin and renaming it in aion.exe, when I launch it, I have the oreans.vxd driver error.
If I try to launch the original aion.exe, then it starts, and freeze just after the splash screen.
Trying to replace aion.exe and game.dll by the one of Fyyre did not change anything.

I tried to replace the crysystem.dll by the old one, and it goes further, i can pass the splash screen, but then it quit at the ncsoft screen.

Keitofu wrote:

Hi there. Since the 1.5.1.3 and 1.5.1.4 update I'm unable to play
under Macosx.
I tried a lot of things, including a fresh install, but it didn't
work.
If I follow your last step, copying aion.bin and renaming it in
aion.exe, when I launch it, I have the oreans.vxd driver error.
If I try to launch the original aion.exe, then it starts, and freeze
just after the splash screen.
Trying to replace aion.exe and game.dll by the one of Fyyre did not
change anything.

I tried to replace the crysystem.dll by the old one, and it goes
further, i can pass the splash screen, but then it quit at the
ncsoft screen.

hey there, i got a few questions for you.

1. When you install and update are you using windows only?
2. When you try to launch the game are you only using -noauthgg -ip:206.127.153.247 and in that order?
3. are you backing up the .dll's you replace with the old ones?

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did you log in at least once on the windows computer before sending it to your mac?

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if yes to all of these, please reply and i will back in a few hours

hi, first of all, thanks for your help.

1. yes, I made the installation under a virtual XP.
2. yes, but I have the same result, using -noauthgg -ip:206.127.153.247 or using nothing.
3. i backup the whole folder after the update under windows, and from that i tried various dll replacement without success so far
4. under the virtual windows, I can launch the game, and access at the login screen

here is where I'm stuck :

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/5963/aionk.png
It hangs there forever, when I use -noauthgg -ip:206.127.153.247 on the original aion.exe

yes when i use those it takes forever to load past the ncsoft page also.
but once it does the game is fine, but since i don't actually have a mac to test this on.
but i'll have a look. see what i can find.

im going to load OSX onto VMware to see if i can replicate that problem.
but its gona take like a day to download d2d, so this could take a while

just wondering do you have http://www.dlldump.com/cgi-bin/testwrap/downloadcounts.cgi?rt=count&path=dllfiles/D/devenum.dll in your sys32 folder?
then again im not sure how that could be the problem.....
so you had this running previously to the last aion patch?