How To: Install Terraria in Mac OS X (Video)

It's start to finish, starting with the Windows 7 installation and config, as well as the Steam, Direct3D, .NET and XNA installs.

Edit: Here's the game running on basically, the lowest end x86 Mac you can get:

The title should be, "How To: Install Terraria in Virtual Machine(Video)

It's fine, and I know lots of people wanted this guide, so very nice!

Regardless if it is a VM or not, it was made in OS X and runs in OS X.

I added this to my post about a Terraria port for Mac, Good work!

At least title the thread that it was uses VM.

Fine, It's How to install Terraria on a Mac, such a pointless argument you feel like carrying on with.

It's a pointless argument but still a legitimate gripe since there's a pretty big difference between having a game actually function straight up on OS X compared to needing VM software, a copy of Windows and the time to install it.

Pointless argument ? It's a HUGE deal. Installing a game on a VM slows the game down considerably. Just look at the video, it's not even PLAYABLE.

If you have an x86 Mac and a copy of Windows, and you're going to use up as much space as a regular Windows install creating a VM, why not just install Windows via Bootcamp and run Terraria natively in the first place? It'd run better and it's probably slightly easier to do.

Because you need to shut down OS X and go into Windows. I'd rather keep my smexy IRC & Twitter clients in OS X.

If you even bothered to take notice of the annotation midway through it, it says I have an Intel GMA 950, which even in Windows, XNA apps crash when using the GMA 950 for graphics. And the default Terraria frameskip causes that horrible lag.

I'm uploading a video of it in my other VM. (the "Windows 7" one, frameskip off) See the OP.

Not at all, first realize he's filming, which wrecks even the best computers usually, and then read his post above. Suboptimal environment + video capture == bad, generally. But without it, game runs at a constant 40+ FPS.

Should post this on the facebook wall, lots of people asking about playing on mac there

This bears well for the latest MacBook Pro line up then, if GMA can run it, I should be fine. Thanks for the heads up!

Might want to try monoxna, it's a cross platform XNA implementation which runs off Mono (I believe.)
http://code.google.com/p/monoxna/source/checkout

Outdated and doesn't support XNA 4.0, I think.

I just used bootcamp to run Windows 7 and Terraria worked just fine.

Using something like Parallels didnt work.

The only problem i get using a Mac running Windows in each time i go from Fullscreen to Window mode in Terraria it resets my screen resolution which can get annoying but at least i can play this awesome game =)

Stay away from Parallels, it's a hog. VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox are better alternatives, if you ever plan to use a VM.

I just installed VMWare Fusion and I get a better FPS in Terraria than in VirtualBox. Odd.

I wish I would have seen this when I first got Terraria. I spent 7 hours bashing my head in trying to get it to work. I finnally did through Parralells.

But the strange thing is, on two seperate computers it WILL NOT run on bootcamp, but will in parrallels.
Which, kind of sucks, becuase running in a VM results in higher cpu usage.
if anyone has figured out how to make it run in bootcamp, hit me up. I kept running into a "direct3d" error, which according to google searches, meant my video card didnt support it.