Magic The Gathering For Mac Os Installing With Wine

The following instructions are heavily inspired by /u/uhohohdear.

What is Wine? Wine (originally an acronym for 'Wine Is Not an Emulator') is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: ~~ WOTC just released a new executable that should work with these original directions. I updated the download link below.

Dependencies

  1. Your macOS/OS X version must be 10.8 or greater
  2. Your Mac must support OpenGL 4.0 or greater (you can find out whether it does here)
  3. You must download the Magic the Gathering Arena Windows executable
  4. You must download makeMTGArena.zip and unzip it. It will create MTGArena.app, which is a custom Wineskin wrapper you can use to install MTGArena.

Note: If you're like me, you may not trust unofficial Wineskin wrappers. Unfortunately, the Wineskin project is way behind and only supports Wine 2.x. We need at least Wine 3.0 to run MTGA. If Wineskin ever gets around to updating, you can get the official download here.

Installing MTGA

  1. Drag the custom Wineskin wrapper to your /Applications/ folder.
  2. Right click/Control click the Wineskin wrapper (MTGArena.app) and select 'Open'

Note: The wrapper has 'Screen Options' and then 'Auto Detect GPU Info for Direct3D' unchecked and 'Use Mac Driver instead of X11' checked. If you complete installation of MTGA and are getting DirectX 11 errors, come back to this step and change these settings, but the defaults sjould work.

  1. Click 'Install Software'
  2. Click 'Choose Setup Executable'
  3. Navigate to and select the Magic the Gathering Arena Windows executable you previously downloaded ('MTGAInstaller_0.1.1615.720204.msi')
  4. Wait for MTGA to install and ignore any warnings (hopefully you won't have any!). When complete, click 'Finish'
  5. Back in Wineskin, a 'Choose Executable' window should be available. Select 'MTGA.exe'.

You can now click 'Quit' and start playing MTGA! If you'd like to add Retina support, carry on.

Adding Retina/HiDPI Support

  1. In Wineskin, click 'Advanced' and then select 'Tools'
  2. Click 'Registry Editor (regedit)'
  3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Wine -> Mac Driver (if Mac Driver doesn't exist, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Wine and then use Edit -> New -> Key to create a new key named Mac Driver)
  4. Select Edit -> New -> String Value from the menu and name it RetinaMode
  5. Double click RetinaMode, set its value to y, and click 'OK'
  6. Close the Registry Editor and then click 'Config Utility (winecfg)' in Wineskin's Advanced -> Tools menu
  7. Click on the 'Graphics' tab, enter the correct dpi under 'Screen resoution', and click 'OK'.

Note: You can find your screen's dpi on Apple Support or via DPI Love.

You can now close Wineskin and start playing MTGA in high resolution!

FAQS

I'm getting a DirectX 11 error and it's making me sad.

This wrapper already includes the fixes below, so you should not have these issues.

Repeat steps 0 and 1 under 'Installing MTGA' and trying unchecking 'Auto Detect GPU Info for Direct3D' and checking 'Use Mac Driver instead of X11'. If you're still having problems, use TextEdit to create a plaintext file (use shift+command+T to toggle between rich text and plaintext) with the following information:

Save this file as d3d.reg. Go to /Applications/ then right click/control click the Wineskin wrapper (MTGArena.app) and select 'Show Package Contents'. Open 'Wineskin.app'. In Wineskin, click 'Advanced', select 'Tools', and then click 'Registry Editor (regedit)'. From the 'Registry' menu, choose 'Import Registry File...' and select the d3d.reg file you just created. Close regedit, exit Wineskin, and try running MTGArena again.

I'm playing MTGA in windowed mode and, after switching to another program, it stops responding.

Everything is fine. Just grab the MTGA window and wiggle it a little bit. Everything should be back to normal.

Mac Os Catalina

I tried to launch MTGA and I get some error that crashes the program!

Again, the fix for this is already applied but I left the question in the FAQ, you should not have this issue with this wrapper.

This is a common issue with running MTGA in Wine. Close the program and wait a few seconds. It should work fine on the second attempt. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

If this really bugs you, here's a fix so that MTGA will launch perfectly every time:

  1. Right/control-click the Wineskin wrapper (MTGArena.app) and select 'Show Package Contents'
  2. Navigate to Contents/MacOS
  3. Rename 'WineskinLauncer' to 'WineskinLauncher.bin'
  4. Create a new plaintext file in Content/MacOS and save it as 'WineskinLauncher'

Note: If you're using TextEdit, make sure you've turned off the option to add a .txt file extension.

  1. Paste the following inside of the new WineskinLauncher file:
  1. In Terminal, run chmod 755 /Applications/MTGArena.app/Contents/MacOS/WineskinLauncher

There's an Arena update and nothing works anymore!

Yeah. It's annoying. You will need to download a new msi and reinstall.

  1. Either unzip the empty Wineskin wrapper again (MTGArena.app) or right click MTGArena and select 'Show Package Contents' and click 'Wineskin' then click 'Advanced', then 'Tools', then 'Rebuild Wrapper'. You should now have an 'empty' wrapper again. Exit.
  2. Double click the MTGArena and select 'Install Software'
  3. Click 'Choose Setup Executable'
  4. Navigate to and select the Magic the Gathering Arena Windows msi file you previously downloaded
  5. Install as above.
For

This image provides a ready-to-play Magic The Gathering Online (MTGO) for Linuxand macOS.

Join the 'WineHQ Players' clan! (Account > Buddies, Clan, Chat > Look for WineHQ Players and contact the captain, or send a mail to panard at inzenet dot org with your MTGO user name)

It is based on i386/debian:testing-slim and wine 5.6.

See https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=32007 for more information.

Installation

A necessary prerequisite is to install docker: https://www.docker.com/community-edition#/download.You do not need wine.

Linux

Open a terminal and install the run-mtgo script:

Make sure your user is in the docker group (command groups). If not, add yourself to the docker group:

You need to logout/login for the changes to take effect.

macOS

Support for macOS is still under test.Using Homebrew, install XQuartz, socat, and the GNU version of getopt.

Then restart your session (or reboot) and, install the run-mtgo script:

Important for macOS users: depending on your configuration the Docker image may not work properly. You can consider installing MTGO using Wine directly, following the instructions here: https://github.com/pauleve/docker-mtgo/wiki/macOS:-installing-MTGO-using-Wine

Usage

Run the docker image using the run-mtgo helper script

Depending on your configuration, you may want to adjust the resolution of the game, or even switch to desktop emulation which may fix some graphics issues.

It will launch a configuration tool prior to launching MTGO. There you may be interested in the Graphics tab.

Sound is disabled by default, but adventurous users can give a try to

do not hesitate to report issues.

To ensure running the latest docker image, use

You shoud consider updating the run-mtgo script as well by following theinstallation procedure.

See

for other options.

Troubleshooting

  • run-mtgo got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket:

Add yourself to the docker group:

You need to logout/login for the changes to take effect.

Mac Os Download

  • run-mtgo asks me to install .NET:

First, exit with Ctrl+C, then

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  • run-mtgo never exits, even after Ctrl+C:
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  • Access host files (import/export decks)