For anyone unfortunate enough to own a mac, I made a quick guide to make the game "playable". I recommend that you save frequently as the game will crash. This is a short solution, but this process is good to learn if you ever want to play any "only windows" games that does not run directx (mac uses different processing program, if you really want to run directx windows game on mac, use bootcamp and a virtual machine).
GUIDE TO "PLAYING" PATRONUS ON MAC:
You will need Wineskin Winery and Wine Downloaded.
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You will be creating a wine wrapper for the installer, then another wine wrapper to run the game.
1. Download the latest Patronus installer(Patronus_a321_r2.exe as of now), create a new folder renamed "Patronus" and place the .exe inside.
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2. Open Wineskin Winery, click "Create New Black Wrapper" and name "Patronus Wrapper".
3. Once the wrapper is complete, click "View in Folder" and open the new .app wrapper TWICE.
4. Click "Install Software", "Copy a Folder Inside" and select folder "Patronus" that contains the Patronus installer.
5. Click "Set Screen Options" and turn off "Auto Detect GPU Info for Direct3D".
6. Click "Advance", "Tools" and under Utilities click "Winetricks".
7. Search "video". Under "settings" tab, turn on either "videomemorysize=1... card has 1024MB RAM" or "videomemorysize=2... card has 2048MB RAM" and click "Run". Wait for the comments to reply "Winetricks Commands Finished!!"
8. Search "dinput". Under "dlls" tab, turn on "dinput... on Rayman 2 etc." and click "Run". Wait for the comments to reply "Winetricks Commands Finished!!"
9. Close out and in "Wineskin Advance", click "Test Run" and download the game.
10. Once the game is installed you should be able to launch the game once with the finish downloading window.
11. Go to folder with "Patronus Wrapper" .app, right click "Show Contents", "drive_c", the game folder and located the newly downloded "Patronus.exe"
12. Copy the game folder with "Patronus.exe" and do steps 2 -> 10 with a new wrapper.
13. Drag the new wrapper to your game folder, run and Enjoy
Troubleshooting:
- If you are getting errors when you "Test Run", make sure that every time you do step 7, 8 and 9 that only one "Patronus" is running. You can check this with "Activity Monitor" in your "Applications".
- If the Patronus Installer "Test Run" runs but nothing shows up, you most likely didn't run "dinput" or "videomemorysize" properly and may need to start over.
- If the game opens up, shows black screen and then crashes, right click "Show Contents" and run the wine wrapper. Run the game through "Test Run"
- If "Wine Wrapper" crashes, restart your computer. If it continues, re-download it.