It should work fine on the second attempt. Close the program and wait a few seconds. This is a common issue with running MTGA in Wine. I tried to launch MTGA and I get some error that crashes the program! Just grab the MTGA window and wiggle it a little bit. I'm playing MTGA in windowed mode and, after switching to another program, it stops responding.Įverything is fine. Close regedit, exit Wineskin, and try running MTGArena again. From the "Registry" menu, choose "Import Registry File." and select the d3d.reg file you just created. In Wineskin, click "Advanced", select "Tools", and then click "Registry Editor (regedit)". Go to /Applications/ then right click/control click the Wineskin wrapper (MTGArena.app) and select "Show Package Contents". 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: REGEDIT4
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". 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. Note: You can find your screen's dpi on Apple Support or via DPI Love.
Wait for MTGA to install and ignore any warnings (hopefully you won't have any!).(You can actually read the text with the new installer!) To install, click the lower right rectangle and, on the next screen, click the "Accept and Install" button. For some reason, the text is broken for the installation prompts (it's fine in game!).Navigate to and select the Magic the Gathering Arena Windows executable you previously downloaded.If you complete installation of MTGA and are getting DirectX 11 errors, come back to this step and give these toggles a try. Note: If you have a newer Mac, you may need to click "Screen Options" and then uncheck "Auto Detect GPU Info for Direct3D" and check "Use Mac Driver instead of X11". Right click/Control click the Wineskin wrapper (MTGArena.app) and select "Open".Drag the custom Wineskin wrapper to your /Applications/ folder.If Wineskin ever gets around to updating, you can get the official download here.
Unfortunately, the Wineskin project is way behind and only supports Wine 2.x. Note: If you're like me, you may not trust unofficial Wineskin wrappers.
I'll update this Gist with 64-bit versions when they become available.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This will no longer work if you upgrade to macOS Catalina, as Wine and Wineskin are 32-bit.
I modified uhohohdear's instructions and then added support for Retina/HiDPI displays and instructions about how to update MTGA. The following instructions are heavily inspired by /u/uhohohdear. Installing MTGA on macOS using Wine, and making it look pretty!