Tip to avoid crashes when using M1 mac + wineskin to play

[chrismdp]

I followed this tutorial on youtube to get the game running on my M1 mac using Wineskin. Worked a treat, except that it crashed every autosave when loading DF through Steam.

I changed the wineskin wrapper to load the game directly, rather through Steam, which seems to have helped.

To do this, go to your Steam Wineskin app, Right Click -> Open Package Contents, Double click Wineskin, then in the dialog click Advanced, and change the top "windows app" field to ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dwarf Fortress\Dwarf Fortress.exe"

Hope that helps someone!

[himmeli]

Yes, this seems to work fine! But have you found solution for slow response for mouse clicks? Are you on Ventura or Monterey?

[chrismdp]

Monterey, and yes the slow responses to clicks is a bit annoying!