The following instructions are heavily inspired by @pauleve. I modified his instructions and then added details about how to make a shortcut and support Retina/HiDPI displays.
Installing MTGO (and Wine and Homebrew and Xquartz and ...)
Nov 13, 2017 How To Play Magic The Gathering Online (MTGO) On A Mac (Tutorial) Click to watch this video on youtube about how to play magic the gathering online on a mac! Oct 09, 2019 Wine. Wine is a compatibility layer that lets you run Windows applications from your Mac. Once again, you can play right from your Mac OS without rebooting. It’s also free to use. The downside with Wine is that there can be a lot of troubleshooting required — which was the case when we tried it.
Jan 22, 2020 MTGO docker image. This image provides a ready-to-play Magic The Gathering Online (MTGO) for Linux and 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:stretch-slim and wine 4.9. My personal computers have been all Linux for nearly a decade now. That being said - I have still kept copies of Windows around in virtual machines to allow me to use some Windows applications. My most commonly used Windows application is Magic the Gathering Online (or MTGO for short). Recently though Wine technology has advanced enough that we.
You may be asked to install Mono and Gecko. Install both.
Follow the instructions. The installation of .Net can take some time and may require you to install multiple versions of .Net (e.g. 4.0, 4.5, and 4.6).
Adding Retina/HiDPI Support
Playing MTGOOption 1: Launching through Wine Devel (the gross way)
Option 2: Creating a shortcut (the sexy way)
If you installed mtgo.exe elsewhere, replace
~ with the path to the mtgo.exe file.
Replacing
path/to/file with the path to wherever you saved the file and MTGO with the name of the file.
The following instructions are heavily inspired by /u/uhohohdear.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: ~~ WOTC just released a new executable that should work with these original directions. I updated the download link below.
Dependencies
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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
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.
You can now click 'Quit' and start playing MTGA! If you'd like to add Retina support, carry on.
Adding Retina/HiDPI Support
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!
FAQSI'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:
Magic The Gathering Online Mac
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.
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:
Note: If you're using TextEdit, make sure you've turned off the option to add a .txt file extension.
Magic The Gathering Online Download
There's an Arena update and nothing works anymore!
Yeah. It's annoying. You will need to download a new msi and reinstall.
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