So a good friend and myself were wanting to play the Baldur's Gate Trilogy together over a wireless LAN of some sort. (She's in the UK right now so it's pretty impossible to just hook up via an Ethernet to play.) I know that back in the day mac/pc multiplayer was out of the question, but I was wondering if BGT would do the trick. If I recall the reason the crossplatforming didn't work was due to proxy incompatibilities. I can't find any information on it though since the bioware forums are gone.
If BGT can't help me out here does anyone know something that can? Surely to goodness someone has managed to figure this out by now. d: Thanks for any help in advance!
PC-Mac Crossplatform Multiplayer with BGT?
Started by Serenity Frost, Jun 18 2011 09:32 PM
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Posted 19 June 2011 - 02:52 AM
I wouldn't have a clue, sorry. I don't think it would have anything to do with BGT, rather the issue is a BG2:ToB one. BGT is just a mod.
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Posted 19 June 2011 - 08:13 AM
I had a feeling this would be the case. If I could get details on what the problem was to begin with I could have more realistic expectations of what might fix it. This issue is surprisingly hard to google. It should be reasonable to assume that if she managed to get a PC version of the game running on, say, leopard or bootcamp it would work just fine. She's pretty unwilling to do this though as it's a huge amount of trouble on her part. Perhaps I'll look into ways of playing the mac version on the PC? That would require I find a torrent of the mac version though...hmmm...
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Posted 19 June 2011 - 08:54 AM
I had a feeling this would be the case. If I could get details on what the problem was to begin with I could have more realistic expectations of what might fix it. This issue is surprisingly hard to google. It should be reasonable to assume that if she managed to get a PC version of the game running on, say, leopard or bootcamp it would work just fine. She's pretty unwilling to do this though as it's a huge amount of trouble on her part. Perhaps I'll look into ways of playing the mac version on the PC? That would require I find a torrent of the mac version though...hmmm...
Windoze doesn't recognize Mac applications, just as Mac OS doesn't recognize .exe applications from the PC/Windows world. So, you won't be able to run the Mac version on a PC. There's not even software available, to my knowledge, to run any Mac OS on a PC (though I know it's been hacked to install on a PC before), but with the proper outlay of cash, Windows can be installed and run on a Mac. The proxy issue you mentioned is simply a matter of how the computer connects to the Internet. All players might be required to connect directly, without proxies or firewalls, but I'm not 100% on that
Surely a multiplayer game should be possible between Mac and PC players. Hamachi might be needed, so that's another thing to research.
Good luck!
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Posted 19 June 2011 - 11:32 AM
I've been doing some of that myself and the universal answer thus far has been for my friend on mac to use BGtutu and WINE. We've yet to test this as my new copy of the game has yet to arrive, but I'll be sure to inform everyone of our progress when we do. If we get it to work I'll do my best to make a walkthrough of our process so others can cross-platform this awesome game.
So far our plan is for me to install the game, make a BG Trilogy version of it, install any mods we want to have, then I rar the folder up and toss it her way. She installs it via WINE and we follow these instructions on getting multiplayer to work. If those instructions fail we'll try a wireless LAN with hamachi, but I've heard that the hamachi method makes things much more difficult than they need to be.
If NWN can be played multiplayer with WINE then surely to goodness we can get BGs 1 & 2 to work.
So far our plan is for me to install the game, make a BG Trilogy version of it, install any mods we want to have, then I rar the folder up and toss it her way. She installs it via WINE and we follow these instructions on getting multiplayer to work. If those instructions fail we'll try a wireless LAN with hamachi, but I've heard that the hamachi method makes things much more difficult than they need to be.
If NWN can be played multiplayer with WINE then surely to goodness we can get BGs 1 & 2 to work.
