Playing UO Renaissance on a Mac OSX using a download and play package

<<< Thanks for the good answer, before moving the server I had everything fine, and now I'm only through VPN because every 2 seconds I had to stop the player when running on a horse!

You write keep in the range from 0 to 100, but I can not force it, everything decides the distance to the server!

And the trace shows the way on fifteen lines, I talked with the provider, I was optimized to 12 lines, but without VPN it's still possible to forget about PVP!

How to try to keep in the range 0-100?

Unfortunately that ping time is based in physics for the most part. I can reduce some of the ping time by VPNing to a west coast VPN server, but the improvement is not that big. Basically your ping time is your ping time.

Has anyone here had any success running two separate clients on one Mac using this package?

I tried yesterday but couldn't get a second one to launch.....

I did not try, and there was no need ...

I have a bash script that can do that. It is just a WINE instance so once I figured out the paths it became easy to launch whatever I wanted within the UO Wineskin. Just save this somewhere in your home directory (I named it razor.sh) and make sure you mark it was executable "chmod +x razor.sh"

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# Launch Razor from the command line.
# Handy to launch multiple windows
# Just make sure you install the UORenaissance package to /Applications
# If it is installed somewhere else just change the variables in the script

# Set paths to stuff
CONTENTSFOLD="/Applications/UO Renaissance.app/Contents"
WINEPREFIX="$CONTENTSFOLD/Resources"
export PATH="$CONTENTSFOLD/Frameworks/bin:$CONTENTSFOLD/Frameworks/wswine.bundle/bin:$PATH"
export WINEPREFIX="$CONTENTSFOLD/Resources"
uorazorlocal="$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program Files/Razor"
uolocaldir="$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Ultima Online"

echo uostorage is $uostorage
echo contents folder is $CONTENTSFOLD

# Check for UO client
if [ -f "$uolocaldir/client.exe" ]; then
    echo "UO client.exe found at $uolocaldir/client.exe"
else
    echo "No Ultima Online client found at $uolocaldir/client.exe"
    exit 1
fi

cd "$CONTENTSFOLD"

# Launch UO Razor
Wineskin "$uorazorlocal/Razor.exe"

The paths listed in the script assume the defaults for the UOR install. If you have put it somewhere else, you will need to change the variables.

That's way above my coding payscale but I'll give it a go this afternoon. Many thanks.

Ok, I think I vaguely understand but I'm sorry if I'm being slow.


I have no knowledge of Linux/Unix. Can I create the script by copying and pasting it into a text editor or something?

Run TextEdit and paste the script text into it. Save it as "razor.sh" to a folder called "bin" in your home directory. If the folder isn't there make it. This is the typical place to put scripts in a Unix or Linux environment like Mac OS.

Open the Terminal app and run the following commands

Code:

chmod +x ~/bin/razor.sh

Now you can run it from the Terminal by typing in:

Code:

~/bin/razor.sh

Ok, I realise with every post I'm outing myself as more and more stupid, but how do I save it in my 'home directory'.

I created the razor.sh file with the script text in it but where do I put the new 'bin' folder? Where's my home directory? On Windows, I could easily have navigated to the C: drive and done it, but this is iOS.

Help. Please.

/Users/[your user id here] is your home directory. I'm hoping you meant OSX instead of iOS right?

In the Terminal when you use, ~/bin, that "~" is shorthand for your home directory.

Yep Mac OSX.



Thanks, my friend. I won't get chance to test this out now for a coupla days but I'll get back to it soon.

So, I'm making progress, thanks to your assistance.

Identified the home directory now, and put the razor.sh in there, opened the Terminal and run the chmod command.


Obviously I have two instances of the file UO Renaissance.app - one in the /applications folder and another in a subfolder in there. Is that going to work with the instructions you gave?

You don't need two instances. This script, by default, will run a second Razor client session from "/Applications/UO Renaissance.app". If you intend to keep your UO Renaissance.app in a different path you would need to change the script to point that that path instead. My suggestion is to just keep it in "/Applications/UO Renaissance.app".

Cool. Here we go then, let's try this!

Ok, so it didn't work. It started one instance, then I ran it again, but nothing. Tried a 3rd time, still nothing. Here's the Terminal stuff (obviously I changed my Username to Johndoe for the purposes of this exercise).

Any ideas?

UPDATE: when I finished the (single client) session I was playing and closed UO, my Mac immediately opened Razor, without my trying to do anything.

Does that help? Seems like it was waiting for me to close the client in order to open a second client.

If you are trying to start multiple ones from the command line you should run them with an "&" sign at the end. This tells the command line to launch it as a separate task.

Example:
[CODE}./razor.sh&[/CODE]

I don't have any problems launching it multiple times.

Many thanks, Chadarius. I seem to have cracked it, finally! Your help was invaluable

Hello -

New to Renaissance, long time UO player!

I have been a Mac user for some time now- and have used the handy package installer. However, I am having an issue with in-game music. There is none whatsoever, though the sound effects are intact. Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Thanks,

D

Hi Kuato,

Welcome. We all have this same issue, unfortunately. There isn't a way, as far as we know, to get the music working on the mac client.