Hoyle Casino crash in OSX VM

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Hoyle Casino crash in OSX VM

I am preparing to upgrade to Catalina (finally), but I know Hoyle Casino is a 32 bit app and will not work so I created a Mojave VM (10.14.6) using VMware Fusion (11.5.6) and tried to run it there, but it failed to open. No splash screen or anything. It just crashes before anything gets displayed on the screen. I suspect it has something to do with the emulated display because it runs fine on my iMac. Anyone know of a workaround to get this running in a VM like this?

VMware, macOS 10.14

Posted on Nov 5, 2020 8:52 AM

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Answer 1

dialabrain

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Nov 5, 2020 9:03 AM in response to michaelfjacob

FWIW, if Hoyle Casino requires accelerated graphics then you can't run it in a VM. Not in VMWare Fusion, Parallels Desktop or VirtualBox. You could dual boot Mojave and Catalina if you want to play it badly enough.

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Answer 2

Nov 5, 2020 9:11 AM in response to dialabrain

Good point. Do you know if there is a way to determine if an application requires accelerated graphics? I want it enough to go through the exercise of investigating this and setting up the VM. Those are pretty easy. I never set up a Mac for dual boot before. Not sure if its worth going that far.

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dialabrain

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Nov 5, 2020 9:22 AM in response to michaelfjacob

I'm sorry I don't know. The fact that it's crashing is a good indication. As far as dual booting, it's not difficult to set up but you would have to boot into Mojave any time you wanted to play.

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dialabrain

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Nov 5, 2020 11:10 AM in response to michaelfjacob

You're welcome. I'm glad you thought of looking through the crash report. :)

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Answer 5

Nov 5, 2020 11:07 AM in response to dialabrain

I actually read through the crash report and found the thread that crashed. It was calling glClear (CopyToScreen). Based on "gl" prefix of that function call, I'm guessing this is openGL which confirms the dependence on accelerated graphics. I guess the only option is the dual boot as you suggested. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Much appreciated!

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Hoyle Casino crash in OSX VM

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