MOH:Allied Assault & Parallels

[antmit]

Hi

This looks to have been covered a bit in the early days, but not so much in the last few years.

I have a 2018 MBP with Parallels 16, and also my old copy of Medal of Honor:Allied Assault (and Spearhead), not to mention a heavy need for some nostalgia having seen a Twitch channel of someone running multiplayer the other day.

I have the Revival version of MOH installed now onto an XP and a Windows 8.1 VM on Parallels, but the old chestnut of it just crashing upon launch is still with me. It gets to the console screen, but then when the screen blinks to get the intro and main menu screen up, it crashes. OpenGL appears fine, as the console says that it is loaded. In the past, I managed to get it working by creating a Boot Camp partition, but I don't want to have to do this just to get a game working that's 20yrs old, and should be able to be played.

I've seen some posts from people saying they've got this working in their own Parallels VMs, and I was wondering if someone could show me how to do it. So far I've:

• installed DX 9 (and 10);
• tried to copy a relevant version of opengl32.dll to the main MOHAA directory, and back out again when it brought up more errors;
• tried to open MOH in windowed mode by trying to put a "-w" in the shortcut;
• tried to run it in various compatibility modes (more out of desperation than expecting it to work);
• etc.

Any help and guidance would be really very much appreciated.

Cheers.

 

[antmit]

Never mind, it worked. Even though I'm using an XP (as well as a 8.1) VM, and I followed these instructions to install the fix. As far as I'm concerned, it's the same as other things I'd tried, but all I know is that it's working.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MOHAA/comments/aoxkbo

 

[MacsRgr8]

I love firing up old games... nostalgia grows the older you get...

For great classic games like this I went 2 routes:

1. Porting Kit (https://portingkit.com/about)
2. Boot Camp (Windows 8.1 in my case)
For both I buy the games on GOG (https://www.gog.com/).

Using Parallels / Vmware usually works, but I do experince some issues in the past and kind of gave up on trying classic gaming through these apps.

 

[Richdmoore]

I love firing up old games... nostalgia grows the older you get...

For great classic games like this I went 2 routes:

1. Porting Kit (https://portingkit.com/about)
2. Boot Camp (Windows 8.1 in my case)
For both I buy the games on GOG (https://www.gog.com/).

Using Parallels / Vmware usually works, but I do experince some issues in the past and kind of gave up on trying classic gaming through these apps.

I just used porting kit (unreal 99 & unreal 2004) and it was great, as long as I followed the directions exactly in the notes area. I am very happy with it, as I know I could never do all the steps manually to play the pc games on MacOS.

I was surprised I haven’t heard more about it (especially now that some games like ut 99 says it even works with M1 Mac’s.)

 

[antmit]

Yep. Just entered my 40s and nostalgia for anything mid-80s to about 2007 is often on my mind. Thanks for the replies, which until now @MacsRgr8 I didn't realise you had done! It was only Rich's response that alerted me to it.

I made some very good friends during my online MOH days, and some I'm still in regular touch with 20yrs later. Sadly, one of the closest ones passed away a few months ago. I, along with the rest, have discussed again about renting a server (which bizarrely you can still do) and firing it all up again as a fitting way to remember him. The reason I mention this though is in reference to your comment about experiencing issues through VM. I did have the problem where whenever I would scope and fire, I'd lag out, a few seconds would go by and I was either dead, or had missed wildly. Pardon me, but I used to be very good and still play these kinds of games on the PS4/5. lol

I've recently upgraded to the M1 Max MBP, and hoping that MOH will install on the only VM I can use - Windows 11. That said, I've just looked at the Porting Kit website, and I'm going to give that a try first.

Thanks both.