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Installing BO3MacFix

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Emma edited this page Nov 16, 2024 · 2 revisions

1. Install Black Ops 3

You need to have Black Ops 3 installed from Steam on your Mac. Pirated copies of the game are not supported.

The game must be installed to an APFS, Mac OS Extended (HFS+) or exFAT filesystem. This is fine if installing to your Mac's internal storage, which will be APFS or HFS+. It can't be installed to FAT32 or NTFS external drives.

2. Install Wine

These are the recommended ways to install Wine for BO3MacFix. If you've stumbled across this page by accident, or if you can't use either of these for BO3MacFix, follow the official WineHQ documentation.

BO3MacFix requires Wine 8.10 or higher, any older version has not been tested and won't work. If you already have Wine installed, you can skip this step.

  • macOS Catalina and up (10.15+): Use Homebrew to install Wine Stable.
    1. Install Homebrew with the instructions on the website: https://brew.sh
    2. In a Terminal window, type brew install --cask --no-quarantine wine-stable

macOS High Sierra and Mojave (10.13 - 10.14) are currently unsupported. The patch will work without Wine for Network Password and security fixes, but custom maps will fail to load. Support will be added in a future update. Due to Steam dropping support for these two macOS versions, I won't be prioritising support as the game requires Steam to launch.

3. Install BO3MacFix

  1. Download the latest BO3MacFix release.
  2. Extract the BO3MacFix-1.0-beta.tar.gz file by opening it.
  3. Right click on Black Ops 3 in your Steam library, go to "Manage", then "Browse local files".
  4. Drag the "BO3MacFix" folder from where you extracted the file into the Black Ops 3 folder that just opened up.
  5. Double click on the BO3MacFix folder to open it, then right click on "Install_BO3MacFix" and click "Open".
    • If you get a Gatekeeper prompt, click "Open Anyway".
  6. Press 1 to install BO3MacFix into your game.

If all was successful, you should be able to launch Black Ops 3 from Steam and see the game launch immediately, without the Aspyr launcher, and on the menus you'll see the BO3MacFix version in the corner of the screen.

4. Set a Network Password (Optional, Highly Recommended)

Since Black Ops 3 has countless unfixed issues where other people can crash your game, the best way to avoid them is with a network password that stops anyone from joining your lobby or sending messages to your game. This is highly recommended if you are only going to be playing Zombies or Campaign with your friends!

  1. Right click on Black Ops 3 in your Steam library, then select "Properties".
  2. In the launch options field, type --password BLAH!, replacing "BLAH!" with a unique single-word passcode. You will give this to your friends, don't make it anything sensitive, or that you use elsewhere!

You must have the same password set as everyone else who's trying to join your lobby, and you will not be able to play with people in matchmaking (by searching for a Public Match for instance). You can still play with Windows or Linux/Steam Deck players, if they are using t7patch (at least v2.03) with the same Network Password set as you.

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