Enhanced Edition doesn't work on mac

[TMo1595]

I've seen this problem all over forums and discussion pages, and I'm having it too. I try to open it, screen goes black, and the game crashes. I know its only a $10 game, but its pretty BS if I can't play the damn thing.

If you can't get the game to work on macs, don't tell us it does, and don't take our money!

[mnord82]

I second this comment. I just bought the game yesterday and get the same behavior. Could this problem be related to OS X Yosemite? BTW my other Steam games work fine.

[tayler_aleks]

Does not work on 10.10, but worked on 10.9

[kranger]

Try opening the game from Finder. View the games properties and then browse the local files. Trying to run it from there might work. If it crashes, go into the steam app and try opening it from there. For some reason this worked for me, but it took a couple of minutes to actually appear. Running Yosemite btw.

[ruisranne]

Anyone have a fix for this? I started playing the game this morning after a year long pause, and it worked fine... came back from work and it just displays a black screen for a second and then nothing. I really want to get through this game before I play the second one. It's unbelievable that CDPR still hasn't fixed these issues, it used to crash too all the time when I played it the last time a year ago. I'm not using Yosemite either.

[kranger]

Maybe restart your computer and try again?

[rodjenauavgustu]

This worked for me!

**thanks to KOMOSH for posting this**

NOTE: Before you do these steps I recommend going into steam right-click the witcher and select "Properties" then go to "Local Files" tab and click "Verify Integrity Of Game Cache" and let it fix any missing/changed files it finds.

Now you can start. It is long list if steps but actually it is very easy.

1- Go to http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php and download the latest Wineskin winery (as of now it should be v2.6.0) and install it on you mac.

2- Go to http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.7.4 download latest XQuartz and install it on your mac.

3- Run Wineskin winery and download the latest wine engine (for now it is WS9Wine1.7.29) you do this by clicking the "+" button and select the engine and then click "Download and Install".

4- Also on the same main screen for Wineskin Winery make sure it says the wrapper is Wineskin-2.6.0 (the latest as of now).

5- Now from the same main screen for Wineskin Winery select "Create New Black Wrapper".

6- When it asks about the wrapper name it does not matter what you call it just click ok to continue.

7- Wait for it to create the wrapper and click cancel for both Mono and Gecko when it asks you if you want to install them.

8- When it finishes creating the wrapper it will show a dialog saying "Wrapper creating finished" now click the "View wrapper in finder" button. This should open the finder and show you the wrapper app.

9- Right click the wrapper app and select "Show package contents". Now leave this finder window open as it is and open another window (press Cmd+N to open one quick).

10- In the new finder window press "Shift+Cmd+G" and paste this path "~/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/the witcher enhanced edition" in the goto text box.

11- You should now be in the Witcher steam folder and will be able to see "The Witcher" app.

12- Right click the "The Witcher.app" and select "Show package contents".

13- Go back to your other Finder window (where you have the contents of the wrapper shown) and copy the "wineskin.app" file from there to the other finder window (the one with the contents of the witcher app).

14- Run the wineskin.app (the one that you just copied) from inside the Witcher.app. It should give you 4 buttons of options select "Advanced" then select the "Tools" tab and click "Change Engine used". Make sure "WS9Wine1.7.29" engine is select if not select it from the drop menu and then click "Ok". Wait for it to finish changing the engine.

15- Last step from the previous screen (the one with the tab "Tools") now select the tab "Options" and check-on the last checkbox called "Force use of system installed XQuartz ..."

16-Go back to the tools screen and click on 'update wrapper'.

Close wineskin and go run the witcher normally and it should now run.

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[saintrik]

I tried following these instructions. Instead of getting a black screen followed by the game quitting I am now getting an error stating "Warning! Minimum system requirements not met!" I am attempting to run it on a 5k imac with 4 GHz i7, 4 Gb AMD graphics and 12Gb ram. What gives??

[Programmaring]

Originally posted by saintrik:

I tried following these instructions. Instead of getting a black screen followed by the game quitting I am now getting an error stating "Warning! Minimum system requirements not met!" I am attempting to run it on a 5k imac with 4 GHz i7, 4 Gb AMD graphics and 12Gb ram. What gives??

I just started another thread, but I gave this fix a try as well and got the same error message. Wish I knew what to do from here, so close lol

[rodjenauavgustu]

I don't know guys, I'm finishing chapter II and game runs smoothly! I wish I could tell you more, but I just followed these instructions, step by step, as it is written.

[EmotiveScissors]

Having the same problem. Just bought the game and it will not load. Considering I only spent 2$ its not a huge loss, but still frustrating.

[franvanwyk1]

Originally posted by rodjenauavgustu:

I don't know guys, I'm finishing chapter II and game runs smoothly! I wish I could tell you more, but I just followed these instructions, step by step, as it is written.

What specs do you have?

[SoMy]

hey there,

this vid solved the bespoken problem in my case. good thing by using this method is that you actually don't have to mess with third party software or any other of the actual data package

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd4sd-QyAdM

[Mojo Amok]

I was having the same problem with the steam version but pulled off the GOG download technique as noted here and the Witcher is now quite playable -

Originally posted by billyrobidoux:

if you're still having these problems launching or playing The Witcher, go to http://www.gog.com/witcher2/backup and enter the product key you got from Steam. download the backup copy with the GOG downloader and it should work fine - it did for me.

I did this after I was prompted to by one of the support techs from CD Projekt Red. I think for some reason downloading the game through Steam screws it up. Contact CD Project Red on The Witcher website if installing it this way doesn't work.

I did have one crash but with a liberal dosage of saving its not a serious issue (this is with a few hours of gameplay).

Best of luck!

[homebass]

Originally posted by Mojo Amok:

I was having the same problem with the steam version but pulled off the GOG download technique as noted here and the Witcher is now quite playable -

Originally posted by billyrobidoux:

if you're still having these problems launching or playing The Witcher, go to http://www.gog.com/witcher2/backup and enter the product key you got from Steam. download the backup copy with the GOG downloader and it should work fine - it did for me.

I did this after I was prompted to by one of the support techs from CD Projekt Red. I think for some reason downloading the game through Steam screws it up. Contact CD Project Red on The Witcher website if installing it this way doesn't work.

I did have one crash but with a liberal dosage of saving its not a serious issue (this is with a few hours of gameplay).

Best of luck!

Where can I find my product key?