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The only way you're going to be able to play it is through Windows. I'd imagine something like Parallels should be able to handle it, since they have hardware acceleration. I looked it up, and it appears that DirectX is an option for the renderer, so you should be able to use the hardware acceleration. If it doesn't work, then you're pretty much screwed unless you use Boot Camp.

It works in Crossover Games (don't know about vanilla Crossover).  It works even better in Cider.  You need to run the game once to select your renderer, before you "ciderize" the game.

"Officially," it's tied to the game.  But you can just download any game demo that uses cider, open up the application package, and swap out the existing game directory with your own game directory.  For full details, just google: how to cider port

It's one of my favorite Mac tricks.

Mr. T wrote:

It works in Crossover Games (don't know about vanilla Crossover).  It works even better in Cider.  You need to run the game once to select your renderer, before you "ciderize" the game.

What do you mean works "even better" in Cider?

I tried it in Crossover Games (which I actually had from when they were giving it away free...), and it seemed to work well.

I tried to modify the Command and Conquer 3 (which is a Cider game) and changing the info.plist to the new directory did nothing.

You don't have a recommendation of a Cider game to modify, do you...?

mo' ron wrote:

Mr. T wrote:

It works in Crossover Games (don't know about vanilla Crossover).  It works even better in Cider.  You need to run the game once to select your renderer, before you "ciderize" the game.

What do you mean works "even better" in Cider?

In Crossover, I was getting this weird glitch where sometimes I'd just get a white screen and no video.  I might've been mistaking Deus Ex with UT99, tho.

You don't have a recommendation of a Cider game to modify, do you...?
I was using a Spore Creature Creator Demo, btw.

I'm not sure which one I used, as it was a long time ago.  I think it was either Spore Creature Creator or Myst Online.  You really have to experiment with different versions to find the one that works the best with the game you're trying to run.  But if it's working good in Crossover Games, I'd say leave well enough alone.

For newer games, Cider seems to run them faster, so it's always my first choice.  I also like the fact that each cider game is a nice, tidy, self-contained application bundle, and you don't have to wait for Crossover to start up.  I tend to only use Crossover for games that run glitchy in Cider.

A little off topic, but does a three year old version of Crossover work with the current MS Office suite.

corned_beef wrote:

Hi, first post, this thread actually brought me here

Anyway ive been having similar problems, thought id share how i got round them.

Only recently have been using a mac, but ive had trouble with deus ex on windows too so things were a bit familiar.

Im using crossover games. I had some brightness problems, and also the white screen. Changing to open GL fixed the brightness in the menu, but not in game. The only way i found was to run the game in a 4:3 res otherwise it would just be unplayably dark.

However, i have just managed to get it working in 1680x1050:

Installed (with crossover), chose direct3D for the renderer.
Patched (with crossover) to the latest (ver. 1112fm)
Used dxfix (with crossover...) (http://kentie.net/article/dxguide/dxfix.zip)

You can set what fixes to apply, i changed aspect ration to 16:10, res to 1680x1050, non-scaling gui and 32-bit color. Theres a guide here: http://kentie.net/article/dxguide/
Albeit for windows users, but you get the idea.


Also if you install the High Definition texture project (http://www.offtopicproductions.com/hdtp/) as i did,
copy over the [WinDrv.WindowsClient] section from the deusex.ini to the hdtp.ini after youve applied all the fixes etc to deus ex vanilla, and it should run fine.

My only annoyance now is the bar that runs across the top of the screen as if its windowed and maximised. I dont even know if thats just a mac thing? lol ill learn to deal with it, along with alot of things.

Hope this helps someone else!
Your appointment to FEMA should be finalised by the end of the week....

The GOTY had none of these issues out of the box. The resolutions and gamma all pretty much worked.

Thanks for posting the HDTP though, that is definitely icing on the cake, although the game looked good anyway once I turned the "curved surfaces" option on in the ini file.

There is one minor glitch... on cut scenes, the video draws only on the top 2/3rds of the screen. This is not a big deal though.

Last edited by mo' ron (2009-08-11 12:39 am)

To think after all these years, I'm going to have to track down the PC version if I want to play on my macintosh.

Ex: Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=n … ds=Deus+Ex