Silent Hunter III on Mac OSX

02-03-11, 06:35 PM

I hope I'm posting this in the right place. Mods, please feel free to sticky-ify this and move to the correct place.

To my knowledge, none of the SH games will run on OSX. In fact, OSX is sorely lacking any subsims at all.

I'm a mac user, and managed to rather painlessly get SHIII to work via WINE on OSX 10.6.6 on an Intel Core 2 Duo 15" laptop with 4gb of ram and a 120gb hard drive.

This was done using the Steam version of the game (because the game needs to be playable without the CD). It retails for $10USD on Steam now.

Before you start, you need to install the XCode tools from the Mac system installation disk. I think it can also be downloaded for free from Apple. It's the developer's kit for OSX, and installs a few software items necessary to compile all the WINE stuff.

Here's a link on how to install WINE: http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/

That same guide tells you how to install Windows software once you've got WINE up and running.

It took me about 10 minutes to start the WINE install, and the computer chewed on it for 90 minutes or so.

Once you've got WINE up and running, install SH3 as per the instructions on installing software in the link above.

You'll need to tweak a few things before it will work, though.

Instructions for those tweaks can be found at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...estingId=25847 in the "howto" section.

Personally, I used the free application TextWrangler to edit the .cfg file mentioned on that site.

In the .cfg file, I changed 1280 to 1400, and 1024 to 900; but that will depend on your monitor resolution. You'll see what I mean when you open up that file. Be sure to save the file when you're done editing it.

The site mentions editing the WINE config file as well, and you get there by typing wincfg in the terminal. It will pop up a window, and from there you can make changes.

I haven't played through a full career yet or anything, but the game seems to work just fine on all fronts.

Best of all, it runs in a window, so I can mess around on the Web while I'm cruising across Biscay.

I hope this helps some would-be OSX subsimmers!

02-03-11, 06:35 PM	#1
dasgoat Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Silent Hunter III on Mac OSX I hope I'm posting this in the right place. Mods, please feel free to sticky-ify this and move to the correct place. To my knowledge, none of the SH games will run on OSX. In fact, OSX is sorely lacking any subsims at all. I'm a mac user, and managed to rather painlessly get SHIII to work via WINE on OSX 10.6.6 on an Intel Core 2 Duo 15" laptop with 4gb of ram and a 120gb hard drive. This was done using the Steam version of the game (because the game needs to be playable without the CD). It retails for $10USD on Steam now. Before you start, you need to install the XCode tools from the Mac system installation disk. I think it can also be downloaded for free from Apple. It's the developer's kit for OSX, and installs a few software items necessary to compile all the WINE stuff. Here's a link on how to install WINE: http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/ That same guide tells you how to install Windows software once you've got WINE up and running. It took me about 10 minutes to start the WINE install, and the computer chewed on it for 90 minutes or so. Once you've got WINE up and running, install SH3 as per the instructions on installing software in the link above. You'll need to tweak a few things before it will work, though. Instructions for those tweaks can be found at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...estingId=25847 in the "howto" section. Personally, I used the free application TextWrangler to edit the .cfg file mentioned on that site. In the .cfg file, I changed 1280 to 1400, and 1024 to 900; but that will depend on your monitor resolution. You'll see what I mean when you open up that file. Be sure to save the file when you're done editing it. The site mentions editing the WINE config file as well, and you get there by typing wincfg in the terminal. It will pop up a window, and from there you can make changes. I haven't played through a full career yet or anything, but the game seems to work just fine on all fronts. Best of all, it runs in a window, so I can mess around on the Web while I'm cruising across Biscay. I hope this helps some would-be OSX subsimmers!