- posted in General: Us mac gamers don't always have a huge selection of games to play on steam so I have been doing some reacherch and found something about steam wrappers. I know that they let you play most games on steam and pay for them the same way. But things that have stopped me from downloading one is that I don't know if steam allows these wrappers. So I was wondering.
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- The Windows version of Steam is available, and which could allow you to run some Windows-only games on your Mac. Choose any of these options and WineBottler will automatically download, install, and configure these applications for you. The installed application will appear under “On My Mac” in the WineBottler window.
- Download Wineskin Winery for Mac to make Wineskin wrappers, manage/download WineskinEngines, wrapper updates, and build Engines.
I wanted to make a seperate post for a work around for the Steam client issue with the latest update. Thanks John for the config file tip!
It is possible to stop Steam updating to the latest version. To do this create a text file containing the following text: BootStrapperInhibitAll=Enable
Save the file as ‘Steam.cfg’ and put it in the steam folder of your wrapper doing: rightclick the specific Steam wrapper –> show package content –> c_drive –> navigate to the Steam folder and (re)place the file into the Steam wrapper and then launch Steam.. This needs to be done before you run Steam for the first time. If Steam had already updated itself then use a backup wrapper if you have one. So again this fix will only work if the Steam client isn’t updated yet.
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Don’t want to redownload the whole game again? Rightclick wrapper –> show package content –> c_drive –> program files –> Steam –> drag the “SteamApps” folder to the desktop and trash the old wrapper. Then Rightclick the “new” wrapper –> show package content –> c_drive –> program files –> Steam –> drag the “SteamApps” folder into the Steam folder + the steam.cfg file and then launch the wrapper and you should be able to play without re-downloading anything again. We will meanwhile update the Steam wrappers where possible.
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