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The WitcherMac OS Lion-only? No Snow Leopard??(7 posts)(7 posts)
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Posted October 18, 2012
Why in the world this game doesn't support Snow Leopard? I HATE Lion and Mountain Lion, and I think I'm not the only one...

There is maybe a techincal reason not to support the last great OS on Apple machines?
Posted October 18, 2012
The store pages says 10.6.8 or newer for Witcher 1.
I have the steam version of Wither 1 and I played it on 10.6.8.
If you are talking about The Witcher 2, then it's probably because 10.7.5 added new drivers for NVidia graphics at least. Also Snow Leopard has outdated OpenGL, still stuck on OpenGL 2.1, where as Mac OSX Lion is OpenGL 3.x.
This is not CDPR's fault, but apple.
Posted October 22, 2012
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Jegriva: Why in the world this game doesn't support Snow Leopard? I HATE Lion and Mountain Lion, and I think I'm not the only one... There is maybe a techincal reason not to support the last great OS on Apple machines?
It works (slow) on Snowleopard. Funziona!
Posted October 23, 2012
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Jegriva: Why in the world this game doesn't support Snow Leopard? I HATE Lion and Mountain Lion, and I think I'm not the only one... There is maybe a techincal reason not to support the last great OS on Apple machines?
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emuliano: It works (slow) on Snowleopard. Funziona!
Thanks!
Posted May 03, 2013
Yeah, I stumbled on this page from Google. Apple ditched an important bit of software called Rosetta. Rosetta runs older Power PC apps and games and does an okay job with out really causing problems or system slow downs it also doesn't take up a whole lot of space either but, regardless they dropped it after Snow Leopard.

With out Rosetta you can't play early Mac native games such as Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Warcraft 3, Diablo 2, Starcraft 1 and more. So if you have an OS X system newer than than Snow Leopard You cant play the above games or any other Power PC game (*as of this writing) with out some form of emulation or Wine, whihc don't work the same and are usually dos ports or when using wine are buggy and don't always run well or at all.
Post edited May 03, 2013 by cdoublejj
Posted June 17, 2013
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cdoublejj: Yeah, I stumbled on this page from Google. Apple ditched an important bit of software called Rosetta. Rosetta runs older Power PC apps and games and does an okay job with out really causing problems or system slow downs it also doesn't take up a whole lot of space either but, regardless they dropped it after Snow Leopard.

With out Rosetta you can't play early Mac native games such as Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Warcraft 3, Diablo 2, Starcraft 1 and more. So if you have an OS X system newer than than Snow Leopard You cant play the above games or any other Power PC game (*as of this writing) with out some form of emulation or Wine, whihc don't work the same and are usually dos ports or when using wine are buggy and don't always run well or at all.
Rosetta is out of support for apple, but there are other valid emulations. Personally I would recommend simply installing snow leopard into a vm.

http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/ and similar open source solutions could work as well.
Posted June 18, 2013
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cdoublejj: Yeah, I stumbled on this page from Google. Apple ditched an important bit of software called Rosetta. Rosetta runs older Power PC apps and games and does an okay job with out really causing problems or system slow downs it also doesn't take up a whole lot of space either but, regardless they dropped it after Snow Leopard.

With out Rosetta you can't play early Mac native games such as Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Warcraft 3, Diablo 2, Starcraft 1 and more. So if you have an OS X system newer than than Snow Leopard You cant play the above games or any other Power PC game (*as of this writing) with out some form of emulation or Wine, whihc don't work the same and are usually dos ports or when using wine are buggy and don't always run well or at all.
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za.ch: Rosetta is out of support for apple, but there are other valid emulations. Personally I would recommend simply installing snow leopard into a vm.

http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/ and similar open source solutions could work as well.
Sheep Shaver is for older games that were released on OS9, often games you would find on GOG. you can install Snow Leopard server in Parallels but, it lacks hardware acceleration.
I don't know if you can install hackintosh to a VM and get HW acceleration that way. my guess is if you did you wouldn't have GPU accle like parallels does for windows. VMware doesn't really have GPU acceleration that i know of.
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