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How to Run osu! on Your Mac without using Boot Camp

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sonic master_old
Yeah i got a problem........when i play the sliders aren't even shown and i checked with all the songs i have....they all do the same thing HELP!!
sonic master_old
got the picture for my problem

Ephemeral


Welcome to the future.

More coming soon.

in the meantime, install wine-devel from macports alongwith winetricks and then use winetricks to install dotnet20, gdiplus and corefonts on your wine prefix - then simply download osume.exe from the website, and use wine to run that on your machine. hey presto - you have osu! working and almost fully functioning with no clumsy virtual machines to manage!
RandomJibberish
Holy shit

is that what I think it is
FTLaxus
thx 4 sharing, nice 1
but most mac users is using double OS these days
u should considering of changing your title to
how to run osu! on mac OS :)
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mattyu007

FTLaxus wrote:

thx 4 sharing, nice 1
but most mac users is using double OS these days
u should considering of changing your title to
how to run osu! on mac OS :)
Running osu! on Mac OS X is pretty much the same as running without Boot Camp right?

But running with wine seems much easier to deal with than setting up a whole virtual machine, so this guide might become more or less obsolete when running using wine becomes more widely used.
[DG2L]YungYeezy
effing epic
Aquamarine
I tried doing this the other week. It did not work for me. I am using a 2011 13" Macbook Pro. i7 2.7GHz.
Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory

I downloaded the most recent (intel based) version of Virtual Box and used the settings described in the tutorial. I even messed with different settings with the same result. I have tried using the bootcamp drivers CD for it; and same thing. Pics below.

Outside the menu screen it looks normal but slow as ***. Like 5FPS. I'm guessing VirtualBox doesn't recognize the graphics because of the 2nd pic but I have no idea how to fix it.


Winshley
@Saph1: You should install graphic card driver into VirtualBox. I'm not sure if it has to be the one coming from Intel or the one that comes with VirtualBox. Have you installed VirtualBox Guest Additions yet?

I tried running osu! on a PC without graphic card driver, and I get the very same issue. So I guess the guest OS isn't recognizing your VirtualBox virtual graphic card.
Kento726
Honestly, I don't understand why Osu can't be developed on Mac. Switching to a bootcamp windows is such a tedious process. Hope they'll make one available soon.
LLJN
k..difference between Bootcamp and the virtualbox.. trying to run virtual machine as windows xp? :0 sux
IRJustman

Winshley wrote:

@Saph1: You should install graphic card driver into VirtualBox. I'm not sure if it has to be the one coming from Intel or the one that comes with VirtualBox. Have you installed VirtualBox Guest Additions yet?

I tried running osu! on a PC without graphic card driver, and I get the very same issue. So I guess the guest OS isn't recognizing your VirtualBox virtual graphic card.
To make use of the hardware 3D acceleration support within VirtualBox, you not only need to install the video driver, but the hardware acceleration drivers as well.

To install the drivers, you need to boot the guest Windows in safe mode, then install the VirtualBox additions, selecting the Direct3D drivers. They will not install in normal mode since the files that need replacing are in use.

And also, the VirtualBox method should (key word) also work under Linux or other Unix platforms on which VirtualBox can run as a host with hardware 3D acceleration, but I cannot authoritatively say that since I have not tried it.

gavinlljn wrote:

k..difference between Bootcamp and the virtualbox.. trying to run virtual machine as windows xp? :0 sux
BootCamp runs Windows on the machine's "bare metal", meaning there is no virtualization to deal with.

--IJ
YodaSnipe
Would scores still be ranked with these methods?
IRJustman

YodaSnipe wrote:

Would scores still be ranked with these methods?
I don't see why not. As long as the guest OS has some manner of Internet access, that's all that matters, assuming we're talking about this site's scoreboards/leaderboards.

--IJ.
[deleted user]
I found your post really helpful. Thanks for posting such informative content. Keep posting.
[deleted user]
Sorry that the picture is so big...
But what can I do against this little problem? I did everything exact like in the description.
fedefer912
Osu! working on OS X Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwN4GbA6D3E&feature=plcp
fedefer912
Osu! working on OS X Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8)
daichi-hopping
How do you do It is daichi-hopping you are using :) Mac Where are the ISO file of windowsXP alleged that though it is not a question :?: (Do you'll have to download in windowsXP CD?
putchuchu
I need a video of this.

Badly :?
ziin
Is there something wrong with the native mac client?

There has been serious development in the last 3 years. If you can't install virtualbox, you probably don't have a legit windows XP key either, so it's not really useful. On top of that, XP is old as hell and virtualbox is terrible with osu (even on my 2014 macbook pro).
AGRX
Honestly Virtualbox is the worst solution.
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