Another catch is that you have one global Wine version that all programs are using and what works for one program might break another one. Of course compatibility varies from program to program. It is important to note that Wine is not an emulator, thus programs can run at near native speed (in theory at least). Wine is a compatibility layer for Windows programs to run on non-Windows operating systems. Thus, anything we can do with the Windows version we can do here as well. What GoG is selling you is the Windows version wrapped up in its own Wine environment.

System Shock 2 is a Windows game and it was never ported to Mac OS or OS X in its lifetime.

The rest of you, read this guide carefully, I will go into detail explaining what we do and how accomplish it, and I won't be repeating myself. Those of you who are already proficient in the use of Wineskin can just skip this guide and go straight to the Windows instructions It is meant for users who are new to Wine and running windows software on OS X. This thread is meant as a guide one how to apply mods to GoG's Mac version of System Shock 2.

Tech specs for modded system shock 2