age of empires 3/ gameranger help on OS X 10.9

Question

Level 1

21 points

age of empires 3/ gameranger help on OS X 10.9

Hey all,

I'm running OS X 10.9 and i tried to play Age of empires 3 online with gameranger and apparently since the 10.9 update, gameranger doesnt work. So my question is, is there an alternative to gameranger where i can play Age of empires 3 online? If not, is there a way to maybe make a partition on my drive to run 10.8 on it and install and use gameranger on that partition? Anything will help! I dont really want to have to downgrade my whole laptop to 10.8, i was hoping i could do it on a partition of my drive or something. Thanks!

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), Age of Empires 3/ Gameranger

Posted on Oct 11, 2014 3:29 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Eric Root

Level 10

685,221 points

Oct 12, 2014 2:02 PM in response to alexjcanha10

You can create a new partition on your hard drive using Disk Utility/Partition. Use the //// at the bottom right of the current partition to make empty space at the bottom. The select the space and click the +. Chose a name, click the Option button and select GUID. Then format if Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Hit Apply.

If that is all you are planning to do on that partition, ~30 - 50 GB should be more than enough.

Download Mountain Lion and point the installer at the new partition. Then run the combo update and then any other updates.

10.8.5 Combo Update

Reply

Answer 2

alexjcanha10 Author

Level 1

21 points

Oct 13, 2014 5:17 PM in response to Eric Root

Thanks!

Partitioning my drive will erase everything on it correct? And if i dont have many files on my drive, i can back everything up onto a flash drive right? (I recently lost everything on my laptop so i dont have many files on it)

Reply

Answer 3

Eric Root

Level 10

685,221 points

Oct 14, 2014 8:28 AM in response to alexjcanha10

It will erase only the new partition. What you have should be okay, but do a backup just in case as oops do happen. You should be doing a regular backup anyway. Hard drives do fail.

Yes on the flash drive.

Reply