I've been trying to get Neverwinter Nights working in el capitan with wineskin. I haven't been able to find any working wrappers for it, and the ones I create don't work as well. I found an old thread on this forum that seemed to refer to a wineskin that was no longer available.

When I do create a wrapper and start the game, it launches fine, but once I get to the actual game, the screen is black except for the UI. It appears to be running; I can open menus and cast spells, but the whole environment is black.

Hey there,

There is a very simple method to run Windows games on a Mac (I've been doing this since Mavericks): just use Porting Kit. You can get it from here.

All you need to do is:
1. Install Porting Kit.
2. Download game installer for Windows
3. Open Porting Kit and check the game in the provided game list.
4. Press install (be careful not to install Gecko or Mono if asked). It will recommend installing it in /Applications/Games
5. Optional: after the game is installed, you can even install mods, patches, etc.

If you like it (as I do), you can support the guys, by donating whatever sum you think they deserve it.

Please post back if you have troubles, I'll be happy to help.

For your Wineskin wrapper:
Use Winetricks to set Direct Draw Renderer to GDI.

'Force use of system installed XQuartz...' and 'Force use of wrappers quartz-wm...' have to be disabled in options.

'Use Mac Driver instead of X11' and 'Decorate windows' have to be disabled in screen options.

Good luck.

NWN1 crashes while opening on my Macbook unless I add "SafeMovie=1" to nwn.ini under [Display Options] (I also use "Disable Intro Movies=1" but don't know whether that's essential). It sounds like you are getting past the opening sequence so I don't know whether this will help, but might be worth trying if you haven't already.

Thanks! I got it running using Porting Kit. It's a pretty neat application. I tried the wineskin settings Konpeki mentioned, but that didn't get it running. I was probably still doing something wrong. The only thing that's apparently not working now are the videos. The videos play, and I can hear the sound, but there is nothing on screen. I might try adding that SafeMovie flag to the ini file to see if that does anything. Thanks everyone!