City of Heroes on Mac

Overview

There are various ways to operate the Game Client on the Apple Macintosh.

Mac Client

The features discussed here may be implemented in future issues and are subject to change before release.

Main Article: Mac Special Edition

Mac Special Edition was made possible using TransGaming's Cider Portability Engine, which acts as a "wrapper" around the game software, enabling it to run seamlessly on Intel-based Macs running Mac OS X.

November 7, 2008, saw the beginning of the Mac Client's closed beta testing. [1]

Boot Camp

Running City of Heroes through Boot Camp is exactly like running it under Windows. Because it is running it under Windows. Boot Camp is Apple's officially supported method of Dual Booting a Mac computer.

Prior to the Mac Game Client, Boot Camp was the preferred method of running City of Heroes as there were no extra emulation layers.

The standard comments about using Windows Vista apply.

After you've installed/patched Windows on your Boot Camp partition, you can copy the client from an existing installation location or DVD, or grab the updater and download the current version.

Read all about the Windows Game Client here.

Boot Camp Links

• Boot Camp
• Wikipedia on Dual Booting and Boot Camp

Parallels

Overview on running under Parallels.

Parallels 3 - Unsuccessful test; graphical issues surrounding the cursor, even in fullscreen mode. Didn't bother entering the game because I couldn't click on things reliably. Wait for the native client. ;-) - @Ex-calibur

Parallels Links

Parallels

VMWare Fusion

Overview of running under VMWare Fusion.

VMWare Fusion Links

VMWare Fusion

WINE

Overview on running under WINE/Wine.

WINE Links

Wine

CrossOver

Overview on running under CrossOver/CrossOver Gaming.

CrossOver Links

CrossOver

See Also

• City of Heroes on Linux