Various attempts to get it running on a mac

[Ellert van Koperen]

In this thread i will share my experiences.

 

Attempt 1: Liquidsky.tv

 

Liquidsky is a remote windows host with a decent graphics card. Avorion runs pretty well on it. There is just one slight issue, well actually two issues. First off the service is in beta, so you can not simply sign up and use it, and you need to pay for it. Basically € 0.50 per hour, so that is doable. But the biggest issue is that the host does detect the inputs from the client (as in mouse and keyboard work) but it has an inactivity-timeout to not keep your machine running if you disconnect, and for that timeout it does NOT detect your inputs. This means that after a pre-set amount of time (default 30 minutes, maximum 60 minutes) the host will shut down ! without warning or anything you can do about it !

This is so irritating that i have stopped using it.

[Ellert van Koperen]

Attempt 2: Wine

 

Using Winebottler setting up wine is easy.

Wine comes prepackaged with a steam installer, very neat.

Steam however does detect the computer it is running on as a mac, not as windows, so that is a dead end.

Running the demo-installer with wine does seem to work, files get placed somewhere etc, but running the program itself does not function.

If i start the exe directly (in wine) I get the following in the console:

10/02/17 10:46:47,160 Wine[754]: /test/AvorionDemo/bin/Avorion.exe

Hm, not a lot. Same for the server.

 

 

 

[Ellert van Koperen]

Attempt 3a: Mint in virtualbox

 

Eventhough virtualbox does not use hardware graphics accelleration very well i still wanted to give it a try.

I got an error that some library can not be found. I forgot to write it down.

 

 

Attempt 3b: Ubuntu in virtualbox

 

Avorion runs, kindof, and very very slowly. 3fps on the login screen and similar in the tutorial.

(And i do have a 3d card in this computer, an AMD Radeon HD 6750M, it just does not seem to use it very well.)

[Ellert van Koperen]

Attempt 4: CrossOver

 

Crossover is supposed to be like wine but better.

It refused to run, I get some silly error.

CrossOver is unable to initialize a critical component.  Failed to import cxutils module into Python.  See console for errors.  The program will now exit.

Ok...

[Ellert van Koperen]

Attempt 5: multiboot OSX / Mint / Ubuntu

 

Time to get serious!

I installed the refind bootmanager and started the (usb stick) installers for both mint and ubuntu. This involves a process of converting the iso to a dmg and using dd to get it onto the stick.

Anyway, they both seem to be using the same grapthics driver, and both to be very unhappy with my graphics hardware.

Both hang on the same point during startup, when switching from generic vga to AMD/ATI.

 

Pff.. i give up for the moment.

[Nathaniel Thorn]

Depending on how desperate you are, there is also this:

https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html

[Dafuqover]

Dang... has anyone had any success since?

 

Does anyone know the mechanics of running the game FROM a server?  I have my own ubuntu server (on Linode), but, I'm a novice at setting things-up from the command line.

 

I bought the game on steam.  Is there a way I can go from having bought it on steam - to say, installing on my ubuntu server?  Has anyone figured-out wine tricks?