RO on Mac OS X

[_Arwen_]

Originally Posted by Shamino

So this is running pretty well for me on my iMac.

The only thing that is a little annoying is the mouse cursor is sort of a garbled mess. Everything else is great... it's just the mouse cursor doesn't display correctly.

Hoping that maybe Plover figured this out too.

I'll respond for Plover as he isn't able to at the moment. Apparently the cursor is displaying fine for him and he didn't have to do anything special to get it working.

Good news is what you're describing sounds like something I've run into using wine in the past. Bad news is I can't remember how/if I fixed it. I seem to remember disabling the custom cursor and falling back to the default cursor of your OS. I'll see if I can figure it out.

[Edit]
Alright, my first suggestion would be to switch from Direct3D to OpenGL or OpenGL to Direct3D (whichever you aren't in currently). See if that fixes it. Plover's running it in Direct3D mode.

If that doesn't work you'll want to try appending "-compatiblecursors 1" to the end of the execution line. I do not have a mac, nor do I have crossover so I can't be much help beyond this. I'll refer you to this page for information about solving this issue for another game, but the concepts should be the same. Search for "compatiblecursors" to find the posts that are relevant on that page. Here's an excerpt: (again this isn't for RO, but you may be able to adapt it to your needs).

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On MacOS X I had the same problem: I get a weird block for a mouse pointer.

I had to append "-compatiblecursors 1" to the execution line to make the mouse pointer work.

To do this I editted my Info.plist and appended the "-compatiblecursors 1" .

$ grep wine ~/Applications/CrossOver\ Games/CohUpdater.app/Contents/Info.plist
<string>"/Applications/CrossOver Games.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOverGames/bin/wine" --bottle "COH" --untrusted --workdir "/Users/jackal/Library/Application Support/CrossOver Games/Bottles/COH""/drive_c/Program Files/City of Heroes" -- "/Users/jackal/Library/Application Support/CrossOver Games/Bottles/COH/drive_c/Program Files/City of Heroes/CohUpdater.exe" -compatiblecursors 1</string>
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Good Luck, if you have any other troubles, post here I'll help if I can.

Sincerely,
Arwen