How to run OpenMW with steam Morrowind on MAC?

Jwn121 · Post by **Jwn121** » 29 Jan 2018, 05:56

I have, sadly, no access to a PC and thus must play games on my MAC computer. I had already purchased Morrowind on Steam before I found OpenMW, but as I cannot install Morrowind on my Mac through Steam, I can't get it into my finder as a folder and so I can't load it onto OpenMW and actually play the game. I've looked up a number of things on google, spent a few hours searching to no avail, looked on youtube and there's nothing for mac, so I decided to come here, where I know that there are successful MAC players. Thanks for the help!

P.S. Any good mods for when I figure it out? Thanks again!

lysol · Post by **lysol** » 29 Jan 2018, 07:28

You have the same avatar/profile picture as drummyfish, which is... very confusing.

Anyway, I think I recall steamcmd worked on mac too. Anyone?

PatDaRat · Post by **PatDaRat** » 29 Jan 2018, 11:37

Sure! I have managed to get OpenMW working on a Mac using Steam files taken from my PC. Even if you don't have easy access to a PC, I'm sure you can still install the PC version of Morrowind on your Mac using Wine (https://www.winehq.org/). So:

1) Install Wine on your Mac
2) Install the PC version of Steam in Wine
3) Login and download Morrowind
4) You should be able to access the game files. I believe your Wine C-Drive lives here: ~/.wine/drive_c/

I don't know much about steamcmd. My personal experience is that it was too much of a hassle when I tried using it.

Hopefully this helps

Thunderforge · Post by **Thunderforge** » 29 Jan 2018, 18:10

No need to install Wine. You can have your Mac Steam client get tricked into downloading Morrowind straight onto your Mac. Check out these instructions on our Wiki.

That’s what I use and it works like a charm.

lysol · Post by **lysol** » 29 Jan 2018, 21:08

Thunderforge wrote: ↑
29 Jan 2018, 18:10
No need to install Wine. You can have your Mac Steam client get tricked into downloading Morrowind straight onto your Mac. Check out these instructions on our Wiki.

That’s what I use and it works like a charm.

How did I miss this?

Thunderforge · Post by **Thunderforge** » 30 Jan 2018, 15:40

lysol wrote: ↑
29 Jan 2018, 21:08
How did I miss this?

Not sure, but if you figure out a better way so people don’t miss it, let us know so that others can avoid the same problem.

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