Wine

[Adam Taylor]

I am interested in try to run gr level 3 on my Mac using wine. What exactly do I need to do. I have installed version 1.1.7 of wine but when I try to run the gr level 3 setup it keeps on exiting with an error. I know some people on here have got gr level 3 to work with wine and was wondering if they could help out? Thanks

 

[Tony Perkins]

Since you are on a mac you should try Parallels Fusion instead. People seem to have better luck with getting GRL3's graphics requirements to run on it.

 

[Aaron Strum]

Since you are on a mac you should try Parallels Fusion instead. People seem to have better luck with getting GRL3's graphics requirements to run on it.

WINE won't work as it doesn't have DirectX (or at lease I never got it to work).
VM Ware Fussion with just one screen on GRlevelX I got Graphical glitches and bugs. (I think this might be due to only allowing 128MB max of video memory)

Parallels works like a charm even when you put it all in one window, just like it would on windows nativity. (Just make sure you give the VM 256MB of video memory)

it should be noted though that my video card for the mac is 512MB (Nvidia 8800 GS)so I can't say how well it would work on lower memory/powered cards.

 

[Adam Taylor]

I've tried parallels and it works like a charm. The only problem is I'm a broke college student and don't want to pay the extra $80 dollars on top of the Gr Lv X license fee. I guess I could always fire it up in boot camp. I really wish smoothing would work in VMware since they offer a student discount!

 

[Aaron Strum]

I've tried parallels and it works like a charm. The only problem is I'm a broke college student and don't want to pay the extra $80 dollars on top of the Gr Lv X license fee. I guess I could always fire it up in boot camp. I really wish smoothing would work in VMware since they offer a student discount!

How much of a student discount? An Apple Store might give you a student discount for Parallels even if that doesn't work it looks like right now (Just checked the Student Apple Store's web site) and up until 7/31ist there is a 20 dollar mail in rebate if that helps.

 

[Adam Taylor]

How much of a student discount? An Apple Store might give you a student discount for Parallels even if that doesn't work it looks like right now (Just checked the Student Apple Store's web site) and up until 7/31ist there is a 20 dollar mail in rebate if that helps.

Thanks for showing me that. Vmware's student price is $40 but I think I can spring an extra $20 if the smoothing on Gr Level 3 works. It worked in parallels free trial so I think I may be going this route.

I will probably tinker around with wine for a few more days just to see if I can get it to work. I got it to install properly. The problem is now when I boot it up using terminal it pops up for around 3 sec and than disappears.

 

[Andrew Herron]

You don't know what you're talking about. WINE runs GRL3 just fine, as I run it flawlessly on Ubuntu.

The main issue is making sure you have X11 properly compiled with all the proper hooks. This is not made easy on OSX so you're really on your own there. I'd go with the others and say Parallels or Fusion is your best bet.

WINE won't work as it doesn't have DirectX (or at lease I never got it to work).

 

[Aaron Strum]

You don't know what you're talking about. WINE runs GRL3 just fine, as I run it flawlessly on Ubuntu.

The main issue is making sure you have X11 properly compiled with all the proper hooks. This is not made easy on OSX so you're really on your own there. I'd go with the others and say Parallels or Fusion is your best bet.

Like I said I never got it to work, and basically what the staff on the forums keep on saying is that GRlevelX won't work properly on an emulator. (yes I know Wine Isn't aN Emulator )

Also GRlevelX has a bronze rating on WINEhq.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=3604