mdmiles

To address a couple of things: 1.) I just reinstalled the Mac OS X on my machine to build this configuration with the SSD and additional HHD. Due to the limited space on the SSD (for the money), and the fact that my user folder is very large (I am a software developer and do a lot of graphics and other work as well - all of those files can take up a large amount of space), and generally any app that uses files from that folder never really touches more than one or at most a few of those files at any given time - other than maybe on initial load of the app, I do not want my user folder on the SSD. I am using the SSD for system execution and applications - with very few exceptions. I have no intention of moving my 100GB user folder back onto the SSD. If there is a way to make the game reference a preference file in an arbitrary location, I can set up a location on the boot drive (SSD) to do that. As this is a pretty new install, my permissions should be pretty clean. 2.) When I created/moved the User Folder to the HHD, I told Mac this is where I wanted it - in fact, I had the OS move it. I also created a symbolic link from the old location to the new user folder in terminal in case the standard user folder location was addressed. This should have (in theory, anyway) minimized the problem of locating the file in the new user folder. So, I am not sure why that would be a problem. 3.) I believe I found the preference files for both of the games in the applicable locations, but I did not see any useful information inside those files. And if I remember correctly, the ownership and grouping was correct for each of them - I will have to verify this though as it has been a few days since I have looked at it. I am not sure why the game would not be able to access them. I hope this answers some of the questions. Again, Thanks for all of the input. Hopefully we can come up with a solution.

I wonder about the permissions problem or location. The problem is that I do not know what the name of the config file is or where it is supposed to be located. If I know those things, I can go in and change the ownership and location. My OS X is English version (I am in USA). Any idea what file I should be looking for? Thanks!

Actually, this appears to be the case with the new Mac CM:SF as well as with CM:BN. I go into Options and change a couple of the graphics settings per my preference, but when I save the changes and exit the game, it appears to lose those settings: when I restart the game and go back into Options, the settings are returned to the defaults. Basically, even though my Macbook Pro is maxed out - and it is the top-of-the-line mid-2009 15-inch to begin with, I cannot even change the options to the suggested settings in your Mac performance guide that came with the game. Why might these games be doing that? Where is the configuration file that those settings are in? Do I need to change ownership, group, location, or manually modify the applicable config file? I do have a machine configuration that is different than the norm: I am running an SSD as the boot drive with a standard HDD where my user directory is located, but the game is installed on the SSD. Could the machine configuration be conflicting with the configuration of the game - this doesn't seem likely to me, but stranger things have happened. Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Well, it has been a long time since I have tried it, but I bought both the Mac version for me and the Windows version for my son. We tried to get hooked up over the wireless LAN at home, but never had any luck; they would not communicate. I may try again and see if it works now, but we were never able to get it to work. I bought the Mac hardcase edition and Windows download delivery when they first came out - I may have even pre-ordered it; I don't remember. It would have been around that time when we tried getting these to communicate. Did the game have trouble with this when first released? Was there a patch released that would have fixed it? Thanks for the reply.

Man! I just saw this and got excited - only to look at the article date and realized that that was eight months ago! I already have this for Windows, but I would love to be able to play it in my native/preferred OS environment! I hope they still do it! I love playing CMBN on the Mac! I just wish I could head-to-head with Windows users.

I have tried playing the demo this weekend with me running it on my MacBook Pro 2.8GHz, 8GB RAM, 500GB-7200RPM and with my son running the windows demo on Windows 7. We were unable to play against each other. We were able to connect and get into initial debriefing screen and to initial setup of units, but as soon as he clicked the red start button on the bottom right in the command panel, my mac version errored out to the desktop. Is this something that is fixed in the final release of the Mac game or will it be a problem. Are they going to be compatible for a Mac player to be able to play against a Windows player? Has anyone been able to successfully do it with the demo? Are there any additional steps I need to perform to get it to work? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Sweet! That is what I was hoping to hear! I have a MacBook Pro (2.8 - 8GB) as well and he is running Windows 7-64 also. Thank you for the information! And no. Wellsonian11 is not my son. :-)

I have a Mac, but I play these games with my son who has a Windows 7 machine. If I purchase the Mac version (which I would prefer to do), and he purchases the Windows version, will I be able to play against him in two player real-time mode? I would hope that if both are using the same communication protocol, they would work, but from experience, I know that this is not always the case. Does anyone know? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!