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[LazerTag]

Should there be any difference ?

I haven't played with wrappers in a while but one game I continue to check here and there is the Mirror's Edge STEAM version.  It used to be a simple matter to make a new wrapper using the latest Wine and then run Winetricks to add

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From there I would just install from the MSI on steampowered.com and then let it download Mirror's Edge.  At this point it just seemed to have minor issues that I kept checking, specifically the mouse and then I always had a hang in the first training level but at varying spots.  Anyway now when I create a wrapper like this (first time on Lion but not sure if this is my issue) I hang as soon as it opens the game itself and should say 'Loading' (you know the white screen with the two black circle arrows lower left?).  It's just totally hung and nothing in the logs to show other then me killing it all with a command+q

Other games, HL1, HL2, L4D, L4D2, and CSS, all work fine.  I would at least expect to get to where I was previously and with the same Wine version I've seen it work under before but no matter what Wine version I use (lowest I tried was 1.2.3) I have the exact same issue.  I've even rebuilt the wrapper a number of times.  I'm at a loss for what could be wrong.

I am going to try to dualboot to Snow Leopard and see if I see anything odd.  The only other item I changed recently was I upgraded to 8 gig ram however I see this same issue on my iMac which the only change on it was to install Lion. So I don't suspect a hardware problem.

Anyone have some insight or suggestions?

thanks

[cluthz]

There could be difference in drivers that makes it break.

For now I still use 10.6.8 on my main machine.
I do have 10.7.1 on my air, but for now Lion is buggy and I won't start using Lion for real this year.

[LazerTag]

I'm wondering if this is the case.  I installed OSX 10.6.4. in a dual boot this weekend and though it still hung it got much further into the game like it used to on previous wrapper build I have done.

I then opted to try installing Ubuntu for fun and to see how it played on Wine under it.  It works REALLY well.

Is there any group or site out there hacking drivers, specifically video (Nvidia or ATI, I'm interested in both), for OSX or Apple computers in general ?

[Drakulix]

No there is none I know if, but you probably can install the drivers of snow leopard on lion. However you would lose OpenGL 3.2, that is supported with the Lion drivers. The Snow Leopard drivers only can use OpenGL 2.1.
And one thing about Ubuntu. Sure it runs better. Ubuntu uses the X11 Driver as default window manager and it works much better there. On Mac it is a second window manager, which results in smaller errors and performance. If Wine would have a good Quartz Driver like Cider has, it would be almost as good.

[doh123]

even Ciders quartz driver is very limited... it can only handle fullscreen and a single fullscreen virtual desktop window... its not a full windowing system like X11

[Drakulix]

Yeah right doh it is limited, but fast!