marco772 Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Hi, I have a recently acquired Hackintosh and it's great but for one thing, everytime I try to play a game I run into problems! The mac itself is specced up to the eyeballs and should easily run pretty much ANYTHING! I recently bought Prey and it wouldn't work, it just did the bouncing icon thing in the dock and then quit! My housemate (who built the computer for me) fixed it by downloading the Prey demo and "patching" it with that somehow. Had a similar problem with Call Of Duty 2, couldn't get it to work! I've just downloaded the Doom 3 demo and, when I click on the icon, it also appears in the dock bounces and then disappears! Have downloaded the patch but that only works for the full game. Any ideas on why this should/could be? it all runs pretty smoothly otherwise! I hope this isn't too hopelessly vague! I'm not too techy, but, if you need more info let me know! Was just hoping this was a common, easily fixable issue! It does rather put me off buy (the rather linited selection of) games for the mac in the future! Shame, because Prey ran perfectly and looked awesome, but I've finished it now! Thanks Mark Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153252-problem-installing-games/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
locoputo Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 I had a problem with the prey 'no-cd' patch because it only runs under ppc. Found a UB somewhere and that fixed the problem. Have you checked whether you tried running the universal app? -loco Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153252-problem-installing-games/#findComment-1081808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justmetoo Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Check out your video card. Hi,I have a recently acquired Hackintosh and it's great but for one thing, everytime I try to play a game I run into problems! The mac itself is specced up to the eyeballs and should easily run pretty much ANYTHING! I recently bought Prey and it wouldn't work, it just did the bouncing icon thing in the dock and then quit! My housemate (who built the computer for me) fixed it by downloading the Prey demo and "patching" it with that somehow. Had a similar problem with Call Of Duty 2, couldn't get it to work! I've just downloaded the Doom 3 demo and, when I click on the icon, it also appears in the dock bounces and then disappears! Have downloaded the patch but that only works for the full game. Any ideas on why this should/could be? it all runs pretty smoothly otherwise! I hope this isn't too hopelessly vague! I'm not too techy, but, if you need more info let me know! Was just hoping this was a common, easily fixable issue! It does rather put me off buy (the rather linited selection of) games for the mac in the future! Shame, because Prey ran perfectly and looked awesome, but I've finished it now! Thanks Mark Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153252-problem-installing-games/#findComment-1101541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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