Third party versions of Wine, such as Wineskin, Winebottler, and PlayOnMac, are not supported by WineHQ. If you are using one of those products, please retest in plain Wine before filing bugs, submitting AppDB test reports, or asking for help on the forum or in IRC.
What is the best option now to run and configure Windows environments for applications on Mojave now - Wine from MacPorts, Winebottler or WineSkin. Which of this packages more suitable and up to date, with more support from communities? Open-source and freeware of course.

Currently Wine still requires 32-bit code to run 32-bit Windows software, which is a problem for Catalina (which dropped 32-bit code support almost completely), and cannot be solved with a simple recompilation. It's only possible to use Wine for some 64-bit Windows software. The new Winery update successfully downloaded the CX 64-bit engine, and I updated an existing 64-bit app to the CX version (under Mojave). It seems to start up more quickly than the 4.x engine I was using earlier, and works perfectly, as far as I can tell.

(This was originally a pinned thread on the MOUL forum)

There is (or was) a wealth of informations on how to run Myst Online: Uru Live on macOS and Linux on the forum, but it is a bit scattered, so I thought to consolidate it in a single tutorial. I probably missed something, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know so I can update this post.

Installation on macOS

Wineskin Winery Mac Os Mojave 10.10

Installation on macOS

TL;DR version: In my opinion, the best option on macOS before 10.15 ‘Catalina’ is the Wineskin wrapper; it already has all it needs, except ~1.2 GB of data files that will be downloaded once you launch them. To install other shards, see my other tutorial.

If you get a “Uru Live.app is damaged and can’t be opened” error, you will need to launch the Terminal, type “xattr -c ” (with a space at the end), drag the Uru Live.app file into the Terminal window, then press Enter. You will lose the fancy icon though, so remember to copy it somewhere to later restore it 😀

With the ‘OpenUru#159’ update the Cider wrapper (including the MacPorts one) is unable to update PhysX, so it will not work.

With Wineskin, please avoid using the audiochat, your voice will come out annoyingly distorted on other people’s clients.

About macOS 10.15 ‘Catalina’: Starting from this version of macOS, support for 32 bit applications has been completely removed. This means that almost all the solutions listed here will stop working. Codeweavers has found a solution, implemented in Crossover 19, and promised to release the code so that WineHQ and related solutions can benefit from it.

BobLishman was handling the troubleshooting with Crossover in this thread, before the forum closure. In the meantime, if you do not want to buy Crossover, the only viable solution is to not update to Catalina, until Codeweavers’ solution is implemented by the other projects (more info here).

About macOS 10.13 ‘High Sierra’: in some cases, this update broke wrappers (see post 1, post 2). In short, Cider can have troubles updating UruLauncher.exe. Wineskin requires to disable Auto Detect GPU Info for Direct3D (see Wineskin); occasionally Wineskin crashed before this option could be set.

If you cannot reach the lower portion of the screen while in fullscreen, first switch to windowed mode (⌘↵), then move the resolution slider (F4) to the right, close the settings then switch to full screen again.
If you start the game in windowed mode an its top half is beyond the screen, click on Apple Menu > System Preferences > Displays; under Resolution check that Scaled is selected, then select a resolution at random. This will force the window back in, so you can drag it. Change the resolution setting back to the previous settings.

Wine (MacPorts)

You will need Wine (the software, not the beverage); WineHQ now has an official package for macOS. You will need to install the Winetricks packets d3dx10 and vcrun6 (./winetricks d3dx10 vcrun6), and install the PhysX legacy component (wine msiexec /i PhysX..).

Once you have done that, you should be able to launch the MOULa installer as if it were a Mac application. Wmshua download version 5.0. The Program folder (where Uru Live will be installed) is in the c_drive folder inside the prefix (by default in in the invisible folder .wine inside your Home folder; use the shortcut ⌘⇧G, then type “.wine” and click Go).

Wineskin Winery Mac Os Mojave Dmg

Shards will need vcrun2015 or vcrun2013 instead of vcrun6, plus crypt32. See my other tutorial for the specific requirements. Audio can be broken (see Wineskin).

For MOULa specifically, a simpler procedure is to install MacPorts, open the Terminal as admin and type the command sudo port install mystonline-cider (for the Cider version, see below) or sudo port install mystonline-wine (for the standard Wine version).

Note that macOS 10.14 ‘Mojave’ no longer supports building 32-bit code, so the MacPorts option only works for older versions.

The Cider version uses a modified wrapper with the data files moved in /opt/local/share/mystonline/data/, shared with the Wine version.

Cider

The ‘OpenUru#159’ update switched to a slightly newer version of PhysX, which the Cider wrapper is unable to update, so it will not work.

There is a bug in full screen mode that prevents one to reach the icons in the lower part of the screen; a possible solution is to switch to windowed mode (⌘↵), change the resolution (F4) by moving the slider to the right (be sure not to set it larger than the native resolution of the screen!), close the settings then switch to full screen again.

You can get a ready-made version from my archive, from Ainia or from BobLishman. The following procedure is left for completeness’ sake and for those who still would like to try it out.

Building from scratch (click to expand)

You will need the GameTap Cider wrapper and the new version of UruLauncher.exe (both available from here);
Once you copied it somewhere, right-click (or ctrl-click) on the Cider wrapper and substitute the UruLauncher.exe executable in Contents/Resources/Myst Online.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/Uru Live/ with the new one;
When you launch the wrapper, it will start updating files, about 1.2 GB of stuff. Once it is done, you will be ready!
Optional: to update the server status update, which otherwise will not show anything, again inside the Cider wrapper you will have to look for these files:
- Contents/Resources/Myst Online.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/Uru Live/Cider/URU Live Login.app/Contents/Info.plist
- Contents/Resources/Myst Online.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/Uru Live/Cider/URU Live Updater.app/Contents/Info.plist
and in both substitute: “http://support.mystonline.com/serverstatus/urulivelive.php”
with: “http://support.cyanworlds.com/serverstatus/moullive.php”
(This could reset if you delete the TOC.txt file).

Basically only the Minkata shard can be installed with this method.

Contents

Wineskin Winery Mac Os Mojave 10.10

Installation on macOS

Wine (MacPorts)

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Cider

Wineskin