Bought a non-mac game

[biack_hand]

Alright, so I was thinking about how I really miss games like Warcrafr 3: Frozen Thrones and Age of Empires II. I remembered hearing about Steam from a friend a few months ago, and 3 minutes later my credit card was out and I was paying for the game. In my excitement I seemed to have missed a disclaimer (which I still can't find) saying windows only.

I see the whole "No refunds" thing, but does anyone know a free way I can get this resolved or have a free emulator that people have used before? More pissed at the fact that I can't play my favorite childhood game than I am about the money.

Any help on how to handle this would be much appreciated. Thank you.

[samsamuel]

First off:

JEEBUS! IF THE STORE PAGE ONLY HAS THE WINDOWS FLAG RIGHT ABOVE THE BUY BUTTON, THEN IT IS ONLY FOR WINDOWS. IF THE GAME HAS THE WINDOWS FLAG AND THE MAC APPLE, IT IS FOR MAC AS WELL.

IM SO TIRED OF THESE POSTS.

Secondly:

Contact Steam Support, and aask for a refund. Refunds have happened, but not too often.

If you want to play the game, search up a tutorial on Bootcamp, Wine, Wineskin, Parrallels, or Crossover. Whichever one floats your boat.

[Princess Penally]

Can't anyone be bothered to do some research into previous posts before creating a new post... It gets so annoying to be answering the exact same questions repeatedly...

[Teksura]

This will show you what to look for:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9439-QHKN-1308



It's also listed in the system requirments, which you should always be checking before you buy a game anyway.


Bootcamp is a feature which comes native in your OS. It requires you to partition your hard drive and install Windows on half of your system. Then when you boot up you can boot into either Windows or OSX. If you don't understand what I just said, ignore this.

Parallels lets you run Windows on OSX in a seperate window without actually rebooting. If you didn't understand the stuff about Bootcamp, ignore this.

Crossover costs money, but I use it and it works well for most games. They have a handy database which tells you what runs and how well:

https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/age-of-empires-ii
https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/warcraft-iii-the-frozen-throne


All you have to do is install Steam via Crossover and log in there before you install your games through Steam.


Wine or Wineskin might work, I don't know how much configuring you'll have to do to get everything running. But it's worth a look if you're determined on a free solution.