Mac support?

[Evean]

Sometime around U54/5 my client stopped working.

The best I got from DDO was “we don’t offer tech support for Mac.”

Fair, but that doesn’t answer the question:

Does DDO still work on a Mac? Is there any such thing as a Mac client? Did you discontinue it w/o making an announcement?

An automated “no tech support for mac” isn’t a response to the question.

[Phoenicis]

Sometime around U54/5 my client stopped working.

The best I got from DDO was “we don’t offer tech support for Mac.”

Fair, but that doesn’t answer the question:

Does DDO still work on a Mac? Is there any such thing as a Mac client? Did you discontinue it w/o making an announcement?

An automated “no tech support for mac” isn’t a response to the question.

Support for mac went away a couple years ago if memory serves.

You can run the windows client in a windows emulator as far as I know.

[Tricosene]

I’m still playing it on my Mac, but I have an older version of MacOS that it still runs under.

Over in the Mac forum, people have reported that it runs under Crossover, even better than the Turbine/SSG Mac client. Crossover has a free trial so people can test out the programs they want to run before buying. You might want to try that out.

Google Drive is going to force me to upgrade my MacOS version soon, so I’m going to try Crossover out, too. If it doesn’t work, then I guess that’s it for me with the game. Auf Wiedersehen, thanks for the fish, etc.

[Tyrande]

Sometime around U54/5 my client stopped working.

The best I got from DDO was “we don’t offer tech support for Mac.”

Fair, but that doesn’t answer the question:

Does DDO still work on a Mac? Is there any such thing as a Mac client? Did you discontinue it w/o making an announcement?

An automated “no tech support for mac” isn’t a response to the question.

On Ubuntu Linux its very easy: I just install Steam, install DDO from Steam and play from there with Steam "Settings"->"Steam Play"->"Proton 7.0.5". DDO works 100% that way on a different Operating System.

I supposed on MacOS it would be similar if not the same? I had a Macbook Pro 15" 2 years ago. Sold it for 500$ and never got a new mac... (since the m2 is not as good or better than 13th gen i9 laptops with 4090 )

[GoldyGopher]

Sometime around U54/5 my client stopped working.

The best I got from DDO was “we don’t offer tech support for Mac.”

Fair, but that doesn’t answer the question:

Does DDO still work on a Mac? Is there any such thing as a Mac client? Did you discontinue it w/o making an announcement?

An automated “no tech support for mac” isn’t a response to the question.

From October 2019

With the release of Catalina for MacOS in the near future, Apple will no longer support 32-bit applications. This impacts the compatibility of our WINE-based client for MacOS. Players can continue to play DDO as long as they do not update to Catalina for MacOS. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes to our MacOS users.

[5thDragon]

Crossover is fantastic, runs better on the new M1 laptop I bought last year than the native client I was using on the MacPro since 2012

[Discpsycho]

I run DDO on an M1 Mac using Parallels ($80), which creates a Windows virtual machine that programs treat natively. Not having heard testimonials about Crossover, I wasn't sure whether that wrapper existed.

If you don't want to pay to use Crossover or Parallels, your options are:

1) If you have a non-M1 (or M2) Mac that you haven't yet updated beyond ~OS 10.14, don't. You can partition that hard drive and use BootCamp Assistant to run Windows off your Mac. I did that until my 2015 laptop ceased to be functional

2) Wait for somebody to make a new Wineskin that works for DDO, or do it yourself if you're a coding genius. The old one was 32-bit (the game may allow 64-bit, but the launcher is 32-bit), for which support was removed after the Catalina OS.

3) Buy a different computer :/

[kbaskins]

I spent the time between Christmas and New Year trying to get DDO to play on MacOS 12 Monterey. I had no luck, in spite of scouring the web for solutions. I went back to running DDO on a MacOS 10.14 Catalina partition, which is a big PITA and flaky as all heck.

Parallels was really slow for me, but I have an eight-year-old Mac mini.

I plan to get a new computer in the near future, and will just repurpose this computer to play DDO. The lack of any sort of support for Macs is another reason I cancelled my VIP and no longer throw lots of money at SSG for expansions and points.

[mecreddie]

1) If you have a non-M1 (or M2) Mac that you haven't yet updated beyond ~OS 10.14, don't. You can partition that hard drive and use BootCamp Assistant to run Windows off your Mac. I did that until my 2015 laptop ceased to be functional

Only the first part of this statement is correct, i.e. you just need to have a non-M1/M2 Mac. I bought in 2021 one of the latest MacBook Pro to be produced before the M1 chip kicked in, I've always been running the latest OS (currently running OS 13.1, updated to it just last night), I am still able to run Windows 10 using BootCamp (it took less then 1hr to make a partition and set it up, and it's not hard at all to do it), and I play DDO there. The problem with BootCamp is the M1/M2 chip being ARM based and not x86 as the Intel counterpart, it has nothing to do with the OS - which on the other hand is the problem for the Wine client, since after Catalina they discontinued 32-bit applications and that's the problem why you need some voodoo to run DDO on an Apple machine.

[Evean]

10.12.6

I should have mentioned.

What to do makes work on 10.12.6?

The “open a browser, look at your activity monitor, quit the other one…” trick doesn’t work.

Also, is there, or is there not, an official declaration from SSG that says “This game does not work on a Mac.”

[Myranna]

DDO runs quite well on my Macbook Pro (macOS 13.1 Ventura), via Crossover. I have one of the last models still using Intel (i9) rather than Apple silicon (M1).