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1. Black Mesa For Mac Free
2. Black Mesa For Mac

Sep 2, 2012 - Aren't all of Valve's Half Life games available on a Mac (native) without needing Bootcamp/Windows? I know Half Life 1 and 2 are.

Play on Mac- This one is (probably) optional but since I already had Steam installed through it I chose to run it through this program. Also I think you need Wine to run Play on Mac. Xquartz- I'm pretty sure this comes with Play on Mac. Any program that can open.zip files, I don't remember if Archive Utility comes with the machine or not 1) Install Steam through Play on Mac. Open up the configuration to install DirectX drivers onto the virtual drive in PlayOnMac 2) Assuming you've already downloaded the.zip package for BMS, unzip it and open the subsequent folder. Open BlackMes-Setup.exe WITH WINE. I don't know why but when attempting to open the file with Play on Mac it could not locate the utility files associated with the setup Also go to Finder and open your user files.

Go to PlayOnMac's virtual drives - drive - drivec - Program Files - Steam - steamapps - sourcemods. From there create a new folder titled 'BMS' 3) Go through the setup until you reach the point where it asks you to install the files to a specific folder. Install it to the folder you just created: Z:/Users/your user name/PlayOnMac's virtual drives/drive/drivec/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/sourcemods/BMS Then finish the installation.

4) Open Steam and run the game, it will tell you to download Source SDK base 2007. Once that's installed have at it! I also installed a couple other drivers to my Steam virtual drive, but I don't know if that's inconsequential or not. Let me know if this works for you EDIT: Seems the heads up display doesn't work on my copy and it is subject to freeze during the opening train ride for some reason. Other than that it's been fine for me. Yeah Legit or not. Just run the bootcamp assistant.

Make sure you have a bit of free space on you HDD or a separate internal one at that. Bootcamp cannot be run with a windows Loader cracked version. I've tried running windows with a loader just to try it out on my system to see if it was worth it going legit. The loader, without fail would cause the windows partition to fail to boot and crash to a reboot cycle. Bootcamp is pretty amazing though.

Gaming-wise you can get a lot more out of your system. I'm running a 2011 MB Pro with the Intel HD 3000 VCard.

What works Installing the game, requisites required for it downloaded by Steam (in Wine), running and playing the game. Sound, graphics, etc work fully. What does not The steam client required to run the game is affected by - this causes no problems running the game standalone, even though it makes it difficult to launch it in the first place. Admin note: disable dwrite.dll in winecfg to work around bug 31374 Another issue, possibly to the game itself and not wine, is that it very occasionally crashes (usually after a 'Loading' appeared) with this error.

Finally, the screen resolution changes after exiting from the fullscreen game, so has to set back to normal in Display settings. Apart from the above, the game works perfectly:) Workarounds What was not tested Playing further than the beginning of the first level (currently). Also, tested using 32bit prefix, so has not been tested using 64bit prefix (default with x8664) wine) Hardware tested Graphics:.

GPU:. Driver: Additional Comments Hardware: - Lenovo G570 Laptop - i5 integrated graphics with `i915` driver + Radeon HD 6370M with `radeon` driver. A complete guide to wondershare video editor for mac. Please follow these suggestions in order to make your tests results more relevant to other users of Wine:. Detail your PC specifications in the Extra Comments section (e.g. Your video card, processor, and system memory). It's also important to specify your video card driver version in this section.

Specify if you installed the game into a fresh Wineprefix (or not). Specify what Windows programs you actually installed. Detail what version of the Windows have set your Wineprefix to (e.g. Windows XP, Windows 7, etc). Add detailed comment about what is not working. Specify if you made any changes to your game e.g.

Like installing any additional mods, patch(s) (official or unofficial) or any modification made to the configuration files for the game. Please, don't send tests results with 'Everything is working' or 'Everything isn't working'. Test results that are too vague will be rejected. Thank you for taking some time to help make Wine easier to use! You need:. A recent version of Wine, it's generally recommended to use the latest development release. It's not necessary to install Black Mesa into a clean Wineprefix - but generally it's recommended.

Installing: First download and install Steam following the steps at page. Download the game from one of the mirrors specified at, you need to download two files:. BlackMesa.7z.

BlackMesa-Setup.exe Download both files to the same folder and then install the game using a terminal: export WINEPREFIX='. ' # set path to WINEPREFIX export WINEARCH='win32' # win64 for a 64-bit WINEPREFIX cd /Downloads # change directory to path of downloaded Black Mesa installer wine BlackMesa-Setup.exe Then restart your Steam client and Black Mesa should appear in your Steam game list.

Launching Black Mesa (via Steam menu) will automatically pull in the Source SDK 2007 dependency - which the mod requires. For Steam related problems, please visit the page. OpenGL Acceleration The game should run with newer Intel integrated HD Graphics GPUs. AMD Radeon 4000+ GPUs (radeon driver is recommended). An Nvidia GPU and binary (proprietary) driver will most likely give the best performance.

If Black Mesa won't launch - then check that you have working OpenGL acceleration for your X session by entering (in a terminal): glxinfo grep 'direct rendering:' direct rendering: Yes If the result is No then you will need ensure you have the graphics driver installed and then troubleshoot your (native UNIX) OpenGL acceleration. Poor Quality Font Rendering This primarily effects the game menu font rendering - but will also effects in game subtitles. It is due to an open bug against Half-Life 2. Memory Leak (VRAM) Playing on at a high resolution, on a low end graphics card, may lead to slow increasing usage of the graphics card on-board VRAM over time.

This has been observed to lead to starvation of free VRAM space on an Nvidia 8800GTX - during a normal game play through a level - when playing @ 2560x1440 resolution. This lead the game to consistently crash when VRAM was sufficiently exhausted (DE dependent). Suspected to be caused by graphics driver bug(s) (discussion with Wine Developer in 2016). This phenomena is restricted to play through Wine. On a Windows 7 playthrough of the game: inter-level loads tend to flush VRAM content.

Black Mesa For Mac Free

Under Wine inter-level loads lead did not reduce VRAM usage. Leading eventually to VRAM starvation. Installer Issues Ensure that the BlackMesa-Setup.exe and BlackMesa.7z files are stored in the same directory.

Ensure that your UNIX PWD (present working directory) is set to this directory - before launching the installer. Check the md5 hash for your installer files: md5sum BlackMesa-Setup.exe BlackMesa.7z Compare the md5 file hashes to those stored in the BlackMesa.md5 file. Random crashes, low FPS and/or laggy game play Typically these are due to deficiencies in the Wine translation layer. General workarounds are to:. disable Multi-Core Rendering (if enabled). turn off Anti-Aliasing.

disable HDR (if enabled). add -novid and -nojoy to launch options.

disable In-Game Steam Overlay set gameoverlayrenderer.dll to disabled (using the winecfg tool). If you still have problems post a comment or submit a bug report at. Graphics glitches, pink eyes and/or general graphics bugs. RHS mouse click on Black Mesa in your Steam Library. ↳ Set launch Option.

enter: -dxlevel 90 Performance Tuning If you get a lot of harsh freezing, especially when looking around and entering new rooms, try switching to the DirectX 8.1 renderer:. RHS mouse click on Black Mesa in your Steam Library.

Black Mesa For Mac

↳ Set launch Option. enter: -dxlevel 81 If lowering your in-game resolution does not improve game performance. Black Mesa has main menu options in the tabs Black Mesa and Video that can be used to directly tune & improve your in-game performance (selectively turn off or lower additional video effects).