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[richmlow]

Hi all,


Rather than having the information scattered throughout countless threads, let us consolidate this into one list! Please feel free to add. =)

Working:
Borderlands (works with no major problems, patch is forthcoming from Feral)
Command and Conquer: Generals 1.0.4
Command and Conquer: Zero Hour 1.0.2
DEFCON 1.43
Fallout (using GOG PC version, along with CrossOver Games 10.1.2)
Halo 2.0.4
Puzzle Agent (using Steam)
Starfleet Command 2: Empires at War (using CrossOver Games 10.1.2)
Warcraft 3
Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne

Not Working:
American McGee's Alice (partial work-around, see post below)
Call of Duty
Close Combat: First to Fight
Fallout
Jade Empire: Special Edition
Samurai
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Star Wars Jedi Academy (partial work-around, see post below)
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast (partial work-around, see post below)

[Smoke_Tetsu]

Not Working:
American McGee's Alice
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Jedi Academy

[richmlow]

As new entries are submitted, I will add them to the master list.

Keep the contributions to the list coming! =) Thank you to all contributors to this post.

[teflon]

Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne expansion (Either download native intel game from battle.net using your CD-Key, or transfer the game patched to the latest version from 10.6 or prior)

[redsaurus]

Jedi Academy and Jedi Knight II should work if you turn extensions off - this thread for wolf:et basically tells you what to do (post 57 & 58 are the relevant ones)

[Smoke_Tetsu]

That's interesting... it worked for American McGee's Alice too if I put
set r_allowExtensions 0
in my autoexec.cfg and stuff like antialiasing still works

(r_nv_fsaa_samples 4 which I have to use even if I have ATI apparently.. seems like an nvidia extension yet still works and enables FSAA on my ATI card)

and the graphics don't seem to suffer any either... thanks for that.  

What's interesting is wrapped Q3A engine based titles don't need that line to run neither does ioQuake3.

Yes I can confirm with that setting the Jedi Knight games now work again as well everything above applies.

I noticed with Alice certain objects in the level are flickering now though... sprite based objects like grating, torches and such...

[mattw]

Smoke_Tetsu, on 10 August 2011 - 12:38 PM, said:

That's interesting... it worked for American McGee's Alice too if I put
set r_allowExtensions 0
in my autoexec.cfg and stuff like antialiasing still works

(r_nv_fsaa_samples 4 which I have to use even if I have ATI apparently.. seems like an nvidia extension yet still works and enables FSAA on my ATI card)

and the graphics don't seem to suffer any either... thanks for that.  

What's interesting is wrapped Q3A engine based titles don't need that line to run neither does ioQuake3.

Yes I can confirm with that setting the Jedi Knight games now work again as well everything above applies.

I noticed with Alice certain objects in the level are flickering now though... sprite based objects like grating, torches and such...

Thanks Redsaurus! It's great to see these games saved.

Alice, Jedi Academy and JK 2 both work now for me JK2 MP did still crash until I turned off some others stuff in the config file - nv fsaa I think . There are however a few black lines in the sky I noticed so I guess we are missing some features with the extensions off.

I tried the same with Call of Duty (1) but it still crashed.

Given how simple the fix is maybe Aspyr will make the effort to update these properly for Lion?

[richmlow]

Not Working:
Diablo 2 (and expansion)
Starcraft (and expansion)

[mattw]

richmlow, on 10 August 2011 - 11:22 PM, said:

Not Working:
Diablo 2 (and expansion)
Starcraft (and expansion)

Best option for those two is to register your product keys on battle net and download the Windows versions to run in Wine or Crossover Games.

[Frost]

richmlow, on 09 August 2011 - 06:39 PM, said:

Not Working:
Fallout

I'd like to note for the record that I bought this game twice for the Mac OS, and it's been obsoleted twice.

My friends can still use their PC versions.

*grumble*

[richmlow]

Working:
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel (GOG PC version, along with CrossOver Games 10.1.2)



richmlow

[Janichsan]

Smoke_Tetsu, on 09 August 2011 - 07:24 PM, said:

Not Working:
...
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Jedi Academy

Seeing that Jedi Knight II is now available on the Mac App Store – and reported to be running under Lion –, I assume that Aspyr was able to fix the problems. The question remains whether they'll fix the previously released versions.

[Sargiel]

I have to admit that does annoy me reference the App Store patches. If my money was good enough the first time round why can't I receive the same support as newer customers ?

[Smoke_Tetsu]

I just tried to go ahead and purchase the app store version of JKII and I noticed it wont let you if you have the previously released version installed.  it wants you to trash it first.

OK I went ahead and replaced my old copy with the App store version and I noticed it's opposite of the old version in that with the set r_allowExtensions 0 cvar present in your autoexec.cfg it crashes.  So heads up if you where using that work around and you decide to update to the app store version you need to remove that setting. Then after that you can turn extensions back on. I noticed some of the bugs with the loading screens\FMV intro stuff where they used to show up white was fixed as well. Every other tweak I use to get the most quality as possible out of it works fine though as it's not a whole new game.

Not sure FSAA is working though. Yes it is still working I set set r_nv_fsaa_samples "0" and noticed more jaggies crawling on my blaster and with set r_nv_fsaa_samples "4" there's a lot less. Easiest way to check is to bring down the console (control+shift+~) and type in the cvar and vid_restart.

Now time for Aspyr to fix Academy and Alice and possibly port the new Alice.  

[richmlow]

Smoke_Tetsu,


That's good news. Thanks for experimenting and reporting back your results! With regards to Academy and Alice, let us know if you find out anything. In particular, I'm interested in getting Jedi Knight: Academy working on Lion! =)


Cheers,
richmlow

[Smoke_Tetsu]

I probably wont be finding anything new out with those apart from the workaround noted earlier until they do what they did with JKII and patch them up and rerelease them on the app store. I fixed my statement above about those to be a bit more clear.

I also want to reiterate something I said elsewhere about the FSAA and that is 4 is the highest that seems to work with my hardware with this engine (id tech 3 ports from Aspyr). If I set set r_nv_fsaa_samples to anything higher than "4" it looks like I set it to "0" and again oddly enough it's the nv cvar that makes a visual difference rather than the ATI (r_ati_fsaa_samples) one which you would think would be the one I would have to use considering what brand of GPU I have. r_nv_fsaa_samples "4" doesn't completely remove the jaggies everywhere but it makes enough of a visual difference without a performance hit that I just turn it on all the time for games like JKII and Alice. Especially in alice without it the bows on her dress look very jagged for example.

[tbade]

I was perusing my folder of reviewed games and found that Akkadia works fine under Lion, as does Torchlight. However, Burning Monkeys Solitaire 4 just crashes.

[Matt Diamond]

tbade, on 14 August 2011 - 12:56 PM, said:

However, Burning Monkeys Solitaire 4 just crashes.

I've heard it works if you disable the opening movie.

[richmlow]

Hi all,


This is to confirm that Jade Empire: Special Edition still does not work under the recent Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1 update. =(


richmlow

[mattw]

Still works OK here on 10.7.1 (Mac Pro, Radeon 5870) there must be something difference causing the issues.