Wine Games Update Two Different

Step Three: Create a Wrapper Advertisement Now that youve picked your engine, its time to create a wrapper: Click the Create New Blank Wrapper button and name your app.

Thankfully, you can easily port many Windows programs to OS X with a free app called Wineskin.

Advertisement Wineskin is a free, open source utility that ports Windows programs to OS X so you can run them natively.

Its built on Wine, an engine made for developers to help the quickly port software.

There are a few apps that do this, like previously mentioned WineBottler or commercial software like CrossOver, but weve had the best luck work with Wineskin.

Due to the way Wineskin works, you wont be able to play the newest, most graphically intense games or power-hungry software.

But you can port older software and lightweight games that dont hog a ton of resources (like many indie games).

For more intense programs, youll likely want to dual boot Windows with Apples Boot Camp software instead.

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Weve tested Wineskin with a number of apps, but well use Torchlight II as our sample since the Mac port seems to be dead in the water.

GO Media may get a commission PS5 DualSense Controller Buy for 70 from Amazon Step One: Download Wineskin and Update the Wrapper Advertisement Before you start, youll need to download Wineskin.

Once youve got it, go ahead and drag the file to your Applications folder and launch it.

If you havent already, download the Windows installer for your program of choice as well (in this case, the Torchlight II installer).

Wine Games Update Two Different

Instead of always updating the program itself, youll update two different things in Wineskin: the wrapper and the engine.

Youll get to the engine in the next step, but you can update the wrapper version right now by just clicking on the Update button.

Youll need to make a new wrapper for each application you want to port.

Advertisement Step Two: Install a Wineskin Engine Advertisement Next up, its time to install a Wineskin Engine.

An engine includes a bunch of settings that can help you run software.

The newest version is WS9 1.7.29.

You can download and use older Wineskin engines, and certain engines are more compatible with certain titles than others.

Just click the button and choose the engine you want to use for your software port.

When I first tried to run Torchlight II, I went with the newest version of the Wineskin engine and couldnt get it to work.

Thankfully, Wine HQ features a huge list of software compatibility.

After searching for Torchlight II, I found that it only works with WS9 1.7.16.

Advertisement So, before you pick your engine, dig around on Wine HQ to see what other people are saying about compatibility.

The newest version isnt always the best, so pick whichever engine seems to have the most compatibility with the software you want to port.

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