My working theory is that it has to do with the 3.7.4 executables having been compiled for 10.11.5. I am not sure if they are runnable on older versions of OS X.
I'm doubtful this is the issue although not sure. The FSO 3.7.4 .app metadata (Info.plist file inside the app bundle) lists the minimum system version as 10.7 (Lion).
The high quality intro is the ogg cutscenes.
AFAIK there are no high-quality versions of the FS2 cutscenes. The ogg versions are just the retail cutscenes re-encoded in Ogg Theora format.
well what happened is I tried installing it at first with the FSO and it worked and the installation itself worked but the wxlauncher did not help.
What do you mean by "did not help"? Can you be more precise? Please provide as much details as you can.
I tried a fresh install, the package wouldnt extract
Which package wouldn't extract?
so I restored the old one and I downloaded the windows standard in the same folder. It worked at least for 1 min, didnt try it for longer, just wanted to see if the graphics have changed
What do you mean by Windows standard?
Goober, can you guide me step by step how to do this. I am new to Mac (less than 2 months)
Open the Terminal app: First open Spotlight search by clicking on the magnifying glass icon near the upper-right corner of the screen. In the search box that comes up, type "terminal.app" (without the quotes). Then double click on the "Terminal" option that comes up on the left sidebar of the Spotlight window.
After the Terminal window comes up, type the following command
Note that you can click on the "[Select]" link next to the "Code:" label to quickly select the entire command. You can copy it by pressing Command+C. Then click on the Terminal window and paste the command in by typing Command+V. By Command+C I mean press the C key while holding down the Command key. The Command key is the key with a clover leaf-type symbol on it that is directly to the left and right of the space bar.
ls "/Users/Patrick/Games/Freespace 2/b55876d428e24717ba53d3ee258201ee/innoextract-1.4-osx"
The ls command is the OS X equivalent of Windows's dir command.
If the file exists, you'll get this message in the Terminal window:
/Users/Patrick/Games/Freespace 2/b55876d428e24717ba53d3ee258201ee/innoextract-1.4-osx
If the file doesn't exist, you'll get this message in the Terminal window:
ls: /Users/Patrick/Games/Freespace 2/b55876d428e24717ba53d3ee258201ee/innoextract-1.4-osx: No such file or directory
Now try checking if the second file Goober mentioned exists on your machine. Copy and paste this command into the Terminal window:
ls "/Users/Patrick/Downloads/games/Freespace 2 (GOG)/setup_freespace_2.exe"
If the file exists, you'll get this message in the Terminal window:
/Users/Patrick/Downloads/games/Freespace 2 (GOG)/setup_freespace_2.exe
Similarly, if the file doesn't exist, you'll get this error in the Terminal window:
ls: /Users/Patrick/Downloads/games/Freespace 2 (GOG)/setup_freespace_2.exe: No such file or directory
If both of those commands work, then you can try running innoextract with the FS2 GOG installer in a temporary folder like Goober says.
mkdir FS2TempFolder
This creates the temporary folder. I just made up the folder name.
cd FS2TempFolder
This changes directories so you are now working in the temporary folder you just created with the previous command.
cp /Users/Patrick/Games/Freespace\ 2/b55876d428e24717ba53d3ee258201ee/innoextract-1.4-osx .
This copies the innoextract executable into the temporary folder.
cp /Users/Patrick/Downloads/games/Freespace\ 2\ \(GOG\)/setup_freespace_2.exe .
This copies the FS2 GOG installer into the temporary folder.
./innoextract-1.4-osx --quiet --list setup_freespace_2.exe
This runs the innoextract (installer extractor) on the FS2 GOG installer.
We can figure out where to go based on what happens from there.
To remove the temporary folder after you're done with it:
cd
This switches directories to your home folder, which is the folder you start in when you open the Terminal app.
open .
This opens your home folder in OS X's Finder, which is the OS X equivalent of Windows's Explorer. You can then drag the FS2TempFolder to the Trash.
You can paste the messages displayed in the Terminal into a post here by clicking on the Terminal window and pressing Command+A (which does a Select All), then copying and pasting with Command+C and Command+V like you did with copying and pasting commands into the Terminal window.
I'm gonna see if I can reproduce these installer issues. I am using a Mid-2015 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11.3.
EDIT: Goober, are you sure setup_freespace_2.exe is the right name of the GOG installer file? I just started downloading the latest FS2 installer off of GOG and it says the file name is setup_freespace2_2.0.0.8.exe.