Pharaoh, Hercules, Civ 2 don't work anymore? Read this.
WineBottler packages Windows-based programs snugly into OS X app-bundles. No need to install emulators or operating systems - WineBottler uses the great open-source tool Wine to run the binaries on your Mac. There is a problem in Wineskin GPU detection code with High Sierra changes. By default your wrappers may crash or fail to launch. Currently you can work around this by launching Wineskin.app, going to Set Screen Options, and uncheck the Auto Detect GPU for Direct. Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (or later). The ports are in the form of normal Mac application bundle wrappers. It works like a wrapper around the Windows software, and you can share just the wrappers if you choose (that is the strategy used here). I just updated to High Sierra from El Capitan. Now my Wineskin applications are no longer working. It shows the name of the application in the Finder and the icon in the Dock but that is it. On Mac os it works like normal but with bootcamp it goes to shit. Save hide report. Posted by 7 days ago. Wineskin is free! Wineskin currently works on. OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard; OS X 10.7 Lion; OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion; OS X 10.9 Mavericks; OS X 10.10 Yosemite; Wineskin Winery is the only tool you need to download here. It will let you download master wrappers, engines, create wrappers, etc.
As reported by several users, Wineskin does not work on Mac OS X High Sierra. Wineskin is a tool used to 'wrap' Windows games so that they can be run on Mac OS X. We have used it to prepare the Mac versions of the Windows games you can find on this site. This means if you have updated your Mac to Hi Sierra, it's possible that you can't play games like Disney's Hercules, Pharaoh, Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure and more. Specifically, when you double-click the icon of the game, you won't see any window opening. So maybe your Mac is elevated now, but you can't play your favorite retro game. Thanks, Apple!
It's possible that this incompatibility will be officially fixed in the future, anyway in the meantime there is a workaround. We will try to update all the packages so that you don't need to fix it manually, but in the meantime, if you want to try, read below to know what to do.
1. Show Package Content and open Wineskin
Find the game icon and right click on it, then select Show Package Content. You will see an icon called Wineskin and two folders (drive_c and Contents). Double-click Wineskin to open it. The main menu of Wineskin has four buttons: Install Software, Set Screen Options, Advanced and Quit. Select Set Screen Options.
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2. Uncheck 'Auto Detect GPU Info for Direct3D'
With High Sierra the autodetection does not work anymore, so you have to disable it. Be sure that Auto Detect GPU Info for Direct3D is not checked. Then click Done
3. Open and update Winetricks
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From the main menu select Advanced, then open the Tools tab. Then select Winetricks. It's the top button in the Utilities column.
Once Winetricks is opened, click the button you will see at the bottom of the window. It says Update Winetricks. You will be asked to confirm, do it.
4. Select a Video memory size in the video settings
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On the Winetricks window, search for 'video'. You will see a few options appearing below. Expand Settings, and then select videomemorysize=2048. This will configure a default video card. Selecting 1024 should also be fine for our needs. Then click the Run button.
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A log will appear to tell you the changes that have been made. Don't worry if you see a warning about your version not being supported. It's fine. At the end of the process, you should see a message Winetricks Command Finished. Now you can close everything.
It's possible that when you click the Run button, you will receive an error. This happens if there are some wineskin processes already running. You can solve this easily going back to the Tools menu, and inside Utilities, you can select Kill Wineskin Processes. After that, open Winetricks again and try to change the video memory size.
If you have been able to do all the steps described here, now your game should be running. Try and let us know!
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Manually Installed Item Downloads If you’d like versions of Engines, Wrappers, etc... you can install to Wineskin Winery manually instead of using its built in downloader, they are all available at the Mediafire.com Wineskin download location Mediafire.com Wineskin download location Also, all engines and files ever made for any version of Wineskin are kept there! If your looking for older engines, or any older files, this is the place to look. *note Wineskin Wrappers 2.5+ requires WS8+ based engines |