Freshly installed GOG version of Jagged Alliance 2 has poor performance, especially after applying 1.13 patch. This is a short how‑to to increase performance of game and fix some bugs.
Jagged Alliance 2.app/Contents/Resources/game/Jagged Alliance 2.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/Program Files/GOG.com/Jagged Alliance 2/
Jagged Alliance 2.app/Wineskin.app
Advanced
→Tools
→Utilities
→Command Line Shell
cd ..\..\Program Files\GOG.com\Jagged Alliance 2\
JA2_113_FullRelease_English_7435.exe
and JA2_113_UpdateForRelease7435_English_7609.exe
)zPatch.bat
Wineskin Winery.app
Jagged Alliance 2.app/Wineskin.app
againAdvanced
→Tools
→Wrapper Tools
→Change Engine used
and select newest engineNow with new update of Wineskin engine, game will at last run smoothly, but will flicker hardly. To stop it:
Jagged Alliance 2.app/Wineskin.app
for the last time Advanced
→Tools
→Utilities
→Winetricks
settings
tree and enable (tick) ddr=gdi
option
For some reason, Option
key is not working at all in Jagged Alliance 2 under Mac OS X. Instead, cmd
key works as alt
, so if there is a game shortcut that requires pressing Alt + X
, you actually need to press Cmd + X
.
This causes some shortcuts to be unusable, because they are reserved for Mac OS X. Specifically, cheat for scrolling through item list (by using Alt + W
) does not work, because Cmd + W
is reserved by system to function as keyboard shortcut to close window. To force mapping of Option
key to Alt
key, do the following:
cd
) Jagged Alliance 2.app/Contents/Resources/game/Jagged Alliance 2.app/Contents/Frameworks
touch .Xmodmap
(will create .Xmodmap file)open ‑e .Xmodmap
keycode 66 = Alt_L Meta_L keycode 69 = Alt_R Meta_R clear mod1 add mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R
Backspace
key to Delete
key (so you don't have to press Fn + Backspace
to imitate it) and key left to Backspace to End
key (so you don't have to press Fn + right arrow
to imitate it), add also these lines:clear Mod2 clear control keycode 59 = Delete keycode 32 = End add control = Delete add control = End
xev ‑event keyboard
in terminal and pressing needed keys. Complete hotkey names‑list is avaliable on Xmodmap keysyms list