On a mac ?
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Hello, just a lurker since a long time. I know we are not the biggest demographic but the wow client on mac is stellar in performance. Is there any chance to see ascension on OSX one day ? At the moment some people report some success with wine but performance will suffer too much for me and it would be a pitty because like I said wow is native metal. Thank you
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Hey there! We would love to do this but unfortunately the version of WoW we are running (3.3.5 from 2007-2009) does not have a native metal port (Metal was released in 2014).
There are a significant amount of architectural changes between the Shadowlands/Retail Classic client and the 3.3.5 client we use, for example, the only architecture 3.3.5 has been officially released for x86 32-bit.
This means that there is no x86 64-bit client, nor is there an ARM client available.
Since MacOS Mojave, you can not run natively x86 applications on MacOS (regardless if they are native Mac apps or not).
So the only solution for the foreseeable future is either emulating with Wine, OR doing Bootcamp -> Windows 11 ARM version -> x86 Emulator.
This is highly unfortunate but we do not have the resources to create a new client from scratch to support MacOS natively.
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@Excl Is there any report of Ascension working with either bootcamp or wine when emulating from ARM ? If so, is there any instructions ?
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@Wonkru said in On a mac ?:
@Excl Is there any report of Ascension working with either bootcamp or wine when emulating from ARM ? If so, is there any instructions ?
Check out this thread!
https://forum.ascension.gg/topic/392/playing-on-parallels-m1-pro-mac-emulation?_=1653062218251 -
Moved from General Discussion by E Excl
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@Excl thank you for the in depth reply. I hope things change in the future. I have an M1 so no bootcamp for me.
From what you say it seems to me that it would be a wise investment to transition to a new client even if that means stopping dev on a new season... I am sure the community would be on board and you will only bring issues in the future working on an old client that is 32 bits. You could still make vanilla wow on a much much bigger map and demographic too and benefit from a 64 bit client that is compatible metal. That would benefit windows users too.
How about a kickstarter ?
I can't imagine what you guys could do with the bigger map ? Let players use it as land for real exploration wild west style and let players build houses and cities ?
Anyway just my 2 cents. I still stay on the newsletter
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@WildSteam This is not a personal comment, just a small rant on Apple:
Why is it that whenever Apple does something incredible stupid, like hard-coding a function to disable any backwards compatibility with 32 bit libraries, that thousands of others have to adjust for their stupidity?
The issue is rather simple; Apple removed the libraries and doesn't allow manual installation of them. This because Apple likes to say this over and over: "Just buy a new one, you poor pleb"
And for it being wise to make a new client just to please < 1% of gaming market is... eh... Not financially sane. Even as a passion project it would be insane. Because the joke is that in 3 years time Apple will come with a new invention of the same wheel and it stops working. It's an endless cycle of fixing their lack of respect for customers.
The only fix with the endless "but this doesn't work on my Apple, can you make a fix" problem is: stop buying Apple.
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@Excl I checked it out since I started this thread haha
It never worked properly tho.
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@Wonkru Any dice with wine or crossover?
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@WildSteam Any chance you have a step by step guide to installing on mac. I keep getting into the warmane client but not ascension. Any help?
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@Disprin you need the custom patches and the Ascension.exe and/or change the realmlist file. Use Ascension.exe to start the game or it will give errors.
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