The easiest solution is probably going to be to run the game in windowed mode by adding the '-d' parameter to the game shortcut (assuming you can even do such a thing in OS X, I'm not really sure how exactly it launches Windows programs through Wine). The GOG installer might install or invoke some sort of 640x480 8 bit color compatibility resolution which is why the game works at that resolution, however when you set the game to higher resolutions there is no 8 bit color mode available so you get a black screen.

TA runs in 8 bit color (256 colors) which I really doubt OS X supports anymore. If the base, unmodified game gives a black screen at anything other than 640x480, that's a problem with the GOG release itself and/or OS X in general. If original TA works and only Esc gets the black screen, it's probably a problem with Esc's custom ddraw.dll, you can try deleting this file and it might fix the issue, but you will lose some advanced features of the mod like line drawing and marking, but if you just play offline it's not a huge issue. Does it work at a lower resolution? (you can set Esc to 640x480 just for testing to see if it loads, just don't click on the commander or the game will crash)Īlso, does it work at native resolution without Esc installed? You need to narrow it down and find out if the black screen is a problem with Esc or a problem with the OS X version of TA in general.Īlso, black screens often point to video resolution output problems, remember TA runs in 256 colors so if your drivers don't support 8-bit color at high resolutions (I'm not sure how Macs work with regards to this, but they really aren't known for backwards compatibility and supporting legacy stuff like Windows) that could be the source of the problem.

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