Mac OS X Maverick, The Witcher EE now cant start?

[ORISguy]

Dear Steam,

What shall i do that after installing Maverick, The Witcher wont start even after i reinstall the wine mono and wine gecko installer? Please help, anyone with the same problem that has solution for this? Thanks

[cooper_tone]

If you guys have The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings (Enhanced Edition) run that first, exit the game from the main menu, then run The Witcher 1 and it should work

[Ryk_Feral]

gritzngravy456 の投稿を引用：

If you guys have The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings (Enhanced Edition) run that first, exit the game from the main menu, then run The Witcher 1 and it should work

Tried that yesterday. Didn't work. I'll try reinstalling #1 again today, then I'll try what you said again.

[Coldpl4y]

Warlock Beta の投稿を引用：

gritzngravy456 の投稿を引用：

If you guys have The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings (Enhanced Edition) run that first, exit the game from the main menu, then run The Witcher 1 and it should work

Tried that yesterday. Didn't work. I'll try reinstalling #1 again today, then I'll try what you said again.

the solution i posted is simply working . if you already tried the first solution mentioned with the 12 steps then you probably made some changes and it will require you to delete the game and download it all over again, iam 100 % sure my solution will fix this issue and alow you to play .

[Ryk_Feral]

Alright I'll try it. Redownloading it now. I'll try and see if it works later.

[Ryk_Feral]

Tried it, didn't work.
I think I remember seeing that method in another thread. Worked for some but not everyone.
Well at least it was a possibility.

[Coldpl4y]

have you enable access for assistive devices ? here is how

[Ryk_Feral]

Yes I know how to access assistive devices menu. But if there's a problem with a wineskin wrapper (that's what's causing the issue it seems) assistive devices options won't have any impact at all on that.

Just to be fair, I gave it a try. No luck.

[Ryk_Feral]

Okay received a response from steam. Basically it was to validate the cache. Tried it for the sake of doing what they reccomended. Replied back that it didn't work along with some more information.

I'll post here if/when things make progress from there.

[DirtyHarry]

I just posted this for someone at MacRumors and thought I'd share it here for those of you having problems with the Steam version and Mavericks, etc.

From what I just read there has been lots of problems with The Witcher on Steam particularly with Mavericks. I ran into this very recently also and decided to try my GOG.com copy of the game instead and it works just fine.

Fortunately, anyone who owns the Witcher from Steam or elsewhere can get a free backup copy of the game, including the Mac version from GOG.com here:

http://www.gog.com/witcher/backup

I would recommend you download and try this one which I expect will work for you since I just did that and it works for me here. This is the DRM-free version of the game by the way and does not use Steam at all. You install from a .dmg file you download at the link above after providing your serial code which you can access within the Steam client and good to go.

I am now able to fire up and play The Witcher without problems so far at least on a mid-2011 27" iMac i5, 12 GIGs RAM, Radeon 6970m running OS X Mavericks 10.9.1. So I hope this works well for you guys also who want to give it a shot. It's a big download yes but it's a lot less painful than all the screwing around, trial and error, etc. I've been reading about in this forum tonight in this and another thread about the same problems.

[Ryk_Feral]

DirtyHarry.....

Thank you greatly. I'll check it out later today. Hopefully this will be a good interim fix until a patch comes out (if one does).

[avmatthe]

Warlock Beta の投稿を引用：

DirtyHarry.....

Thank you greatly. I'll check it out later today. Hopefully this will be a good interim fix until a patch comes out (if one does).

Let us hear if this works for you bud...I've been trying lots but to no solution. Its saddening but I'm happy to know I'm not suffering alone. Keep pushin forward guys

[avmatthe]

DirtyHarry の投稿を引用：

I just posted this for someone at MacRumors and thought I'd share it here for those of you having problems with the Steam version and Mavericks, etc.

From what I just read there has been lots of problems with The Witcher on Steam particularly with Mavericks. I ran into this very recently also and decided to try my GOG.com copy of the game instead and it works just fine.

Fortunately, anyone who owns the Witcher from Steam or elsewhere can get a free backup copy of the game, including the Mac version from GOG.com here:

http://www.gog.com/witcher/backup

I would recommend you download and try this one which I expect will work for you since I just did that and it works for me here. This is the DRM-free version of the game by the way and does not use Steam at all. You install from a .dmg file you download at the link above after providing your serial code which you can access within the Steam client and good to go.

I am now able to fire up and play The Witcher without problems so far at least on a mid-2011 27" iMac i5, 12 GIGs RAM, Radeon 6970m running OS X Mavericks 10.9.1. So I hope this works well for you guys also who want to give it a shot. It's a big download yes but it's a lot less painful than all the screwing around, trial and error, etc. I've been reading about in this forum tonight in this and another thread about the same problems.

I'm downloading it now and will let the rest of you guys know if everything is working fine or not.

[avmatthe]

IT WORKS: If anyone still has issues follow post #69. Thanks to DirtyHarry for him, his post, and his .44 Magnum of Justice

[Ryk_Feral]

And we have a winner.

Seems to work with this one. Supposedly the exact same version of the game. Good PR for gog though. They fixed a problem from a competitor's sales as well.

Though to note, when it runs you may get a message to allow it's version of wineskin or the like. Also the first time opening it seems to be HEAVILY ram intensive. But that cleared up after that. most likely some kind of major setting up during the first run.

Don't have the time for a major run through of it today. I'll try it out tomorrow or tuesday to make sure it's a lasting one (I doubt it.....just being cautious here).

[walkerbo]

Worked for me too! Thanks a ton Dirty Harry. Just wanted to play the game I purchased :)