Catalina Island Rum

[RobRauff]

Okay, please be patient with me as I am going to try to list everything I have done to get this game to work with no avail. 

 

Some background: I was running the game for close to 4 weeks when all of the sudden I got the "two black windows"--reference photos below. This happened after no OS upgrade, I changed nothing on my computer except the wifi it was connected to, which is my own router.

 

Here are my specs

 

**30April2020**

 

 

macOS: Mojave 10.14.6

MacBook Pro(Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)

Processor: 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7

Graphics Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

 

Applications currently installed:

Island Rum(v. 040520202)

Wine Stable 5.0

Wine Bottler

Homebrew

      -winetricks

 

Things I have tried already: Forums posts in which I found these solutions attached. 

• Clean Install. This includes removal of: homebrew, island rum, CoH folder, uninstalling winetricks (Forum post)             
• Removing the ~/.privatewine folder and letting it re-create itself (Forum Post)
• Removing the .wine and .private wine libraries. (Forum Post)

 

So my problem at first was this screen:

 

 

After much randomness, and reinstalling the game 3 different times, this is now my problem:

 

Keep in mind this screen only comes up after i delete the ~/.privatewine folder. If I do not delete the folder I dont get a "wine64-preloader" and the launcher just goes from a green check back to normal. 

 

**01Apr2020**

 

UPDATE: I upgraded to Catalina 10.15.4. I removed Wine-Stable, Winetricks, Winexe, Homebrew, and the old Island Rum. Reinstall the new Island Rum and the new files associated with it. Here is what my "coh" folder looks like. 

 

 

Currently my problem is that I am still getting the "wine64-preloader" hangup. 

 

I am really out of options at this point. I have exhausted all forum posts and there seems to be no comprehensive guide, which is understandable because Macs stink for gaming-but it is what I am working with. I was hoping this post can serve as a step by step guide for those who are not so tech-savy such as myself to get this game back up and running. 

 

I appreciate any and all advice. I understand this is a purely volunteer ran 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 1, 2020 by RobRauff

[Manga]

Look for a file inside the CoH folder called islandrum.sh.  Open it with a text editor, and copy/paste each command one at a time into Terminal.  You should get an error with the last command, that's what we need to see.

[RobRauff]

3 hours ago, Manga said:

Look for a file inside the CoH folder called islandrum.sh.  Open it with a text editor, and copy/paste each command one at a time into Terminal.  You should get an error with the last command, that's what we need to see.

 

Here is what I am getting from doing that. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 1, 2020 by RobRauff

[WanderingAries]

Probably too late as @Mangahas already piped in, but did you start here?

[RobRauff]

6 minutes ago, WanderingAries said:

Probably too late as @Mangahas already piped in, but did you start here?

Yeah I definitely did. Downloaded the new Island Rum for Catalina and then let the game install itself. Still getting hung up at wine64-preloader

[WanderingAries]

21 hours ago, RobRauff said:

Yeah I definitely did. Downloaded the new Island Rum for Catalina and then let the game install itself. Still getting hung up at wine64-preloader

Ok, just checking. I haven't gotten back to it (life issues), but I had the same (?) issue in Catalina, but not Mojave and had simply used the files there with no custom nonsense.

[RobRauff]

1 hour ago, WanderingAries said:

Ok, just checking. I haven't gotten back to it (life issues), but I had the same (?) issue in Catalina, but not Mojave and had simply used the files there with no custom nonsense.

When you say you used the files? Do you mean the game files and Old launcher, or just the game files with the new launcher?

[WanderingAries]

1 hour ago, RobRauff said:

When you say you used the files? Do you mean the game files and Old launcher, or just the game files with the new launcher?

The IR installer from that link.

[RobRauff]

32 minutes ago, WanderingAries said:

The IR installer from that link.

Im not exactly sure what you mean, but I have tried both Island Rums and reinstalling the game. Nothing has worked. I might try reinstalling the game again tonight just for kicks....

[RobRauff]

For the time being I am considering CoH dead on Macbooks with broken wine. Tried a bunch of things with a bunch of people but for the time-being it isnt worth investing more resources for me. I am moving my CoH over to a windows computer.

[WanderingAries]

12 hours ago, RobRauff said:

For the time being I am considering CoH dead on Macbooks with broken wine. Tried a bunch of things with a bunch of people but for the time-being it isnt worth investing more resources for me. I am moving my CoH over to a windows computer.

If you have another machine, great, but you could run it off of Bootcamp if you're up for minor tinkering.

[Taffer]

I just got the game to launch on Catallina, using the wine64 from brew:

 

1. brew cask install xquartz
2. brew cask install wine-stable
3. use a valid shell script to launch it:

#! /bin/sh
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
export WINEARCH=win64
export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.privatewine
cd /Applications/coh || exit 1
/usr/local/bin/wine64 "/Applications/coh/hc-bin64/cityofheroes.exe" -patchversion 20200417_1390 -auth 51.161.76.201 -patchdir homecoming

 

At launch it offered to download/install Mono (a .NET runtime) and Gecko (an HTML renderer) and I let it. I have no idea if those are required or not.

 

I didn't spend any time playing (yet?) because I'm working. 😉

Edited May 26, 2020 by Taffer

[choake]

On 5/1/2020 at 8:51 AM, RobRauff said:

Okay, please be patient with me as I am going to try to list everything I have done to get this game to work with no avail. 

 

Some background: I was running the game for close to 4 weeks when all of the sudden I got the "two black windows"--reference photos below. This happened after no OS upgrade, I changed nothing on my computer except the wifi it was connected to, which is my own router.

 

Here are my specs

 

**30April2020**

 

 

macOS: Mojave 10.14.6

MacBook Pro(Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)

Processor: 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7

Graphics Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

 

Applications currently installed:

Island Rum(v. 040520202)

Wine Stable 5.0

Wine Bottler

Homebrew

      -winetricks

 

Things I have tried already: Forums posts in which I found these solutions attached. 

• Clean Install. This includes removal of: homebrew, island rum, CoH folder, uninstalling winetricks (Forum post)             
• Removing the ~/.privatewine folder and letting it re-create itself (Forum Post)
• Removing the .wine and .private wine libraries. (Forum Post)

 

So my problem at first was this screen:

 

 

After much randomness, and reinstalling the game 3 different times, this is now my problem:

 

Keep in mind this screen only comes up after i delete the ~/.privatewine folder. If I do not delete the folder I dont get a "wine64-preloader" and the launcher just goes from a green check back to normal. 

 

**01Apr2020**

 

UPDATE: I upgraded to Catalina 10.15.4. I removed Wine-Stable, Winetricks, Winexe, Homebrew, and the old Island Rum. Reinstall the new Island Rum and the new files associated with it. Here is what my "coh" folder looks like. 

 

 

Currently my problem is that I am still getting the "wine64-preloader" hangup. 

 

I am really out of options at this point. I have exhausted all forum posts and there seems to be no comprehensive guide, which is understandable because Macs stink for gaming-but it is what I am working with. I was hoping this post can serve as a step by step guide for those who are not so tech-savy such as myself to get this game back up and running. 

 

I appreciate any and all advice. I understand this is a purely volunteer ran 

 

 

 

 

Hey hey...

 

I've had multiple successes with various MacOS from sierra-High Sierra - Catalina..

 

I have a pretty detailed step by step if you'd like to supplement, especially where wine tends to hide in your /User files making things challenging.. And as always, feel free to hit me up if you come across any issues..

 

Direct link to my forum post

 

Good hunting mate..

 

Also, I usually open winbottler, search for CityOfHeroes.exe then install the .net just to make sure everything syncs up after brew etc... Here is an image of what i mean... 

[RogerWilco]

On 5/1/2020 at 9:58 PM, RobRauff said:

 

Here is what I am getting from doing that.

For me the problem were the garbled characters on the first line of this file.

After I removed those, so the file starts with #/bin/sh

And then made it read-only so IslandRum could not overwrite it.

I can now start the game.

 

I think the developers of IslandRum need to make a small fix, as this fix will probably break on the release of the next version.