Open rails running on a Mac which has a conversion program

[LionelDave]

My friend has a MAC which has a program to run windows programs.
He has loaded OR and the demo route and every thing seems to work OK except when you run the demo route. You can see the engine and every thing in the engine. but looking out the window all you see is messed up garbage (streaks spots and other objects that make no sense) If you try an outside the engine the whole screen is a mess.

The external map of the route works ok.

Is there any fix for this problem?
To me it appears that some video drivers are mess up but I don't know how to fix them.

Any ideas will be appreciated by me and my friend. BTW I can't get him to get a real PC.

Thanks for any help you can give me.
Dave

[EricF]

Running in CrossOver or Wineskin/WINE? It won't have full support for video hardware. It's fine for older games; might even make MSTS run OK with some tweaking. But Open Rails needs the XNA framework and access to modern video drivers which isn't going to work as well.

A Mac with an Intel processor can run Apple's BootCamp, which can automatically (and non-destructively) partition the hard drive to allow you to dual-boot Windows. (What version of Windows is supported depends on how old the Mac is.) I did this for years with a 2009 Mac Mini. Just booted into Windows, will full drivers and hardware support for MSTS and Open Rails.

Admittedly, Apple's support for BootCamp has been spotty for the past couple of years, but it's still out there and still works. Apple uses Intel onboard and AMD graphics, which should be fine for Open Rails, although troublesome for MSTS. Open Rails performance on Mac hardware running Windows will be acceptable, although not outstanding. Most recent Apple hardware is two to three years out-of-date in relation to PC hardware of the same age.

[LionelDave]

Thanks for the information. It's what I figured it would be.

Dave