First, it’s worth understanding what’s included in all of these mac torrents. For the most part, you’re getting a “Thing That Lets You Play On A Mac By Fooling Skyrim Into Thinking It’s On A PC” and Skyrim itself. We’ll call the “Thing” a “Wrapper”.

The wrapper is pretty small, but relatively complex to create from scratch. Don’t even try it. It’s not worth your time.

These torrents all contain a wrapper (relatively small) and Skyrim (about 5 gigs of stuff). The wrapper is what’s important. Skyrim is not.

So, I promised you instructions on how to get Skyrim to work? Here’s the short, short version:

{WINDOWS PART}

Download a Windows version of Skyrim (not the mac version).
Download Windows XP
Download VMWare fusion
Install Vmware fusion
Install Windows XP in VMware.
Install Skyrim for Windows inside VMware.

*** NOTE *** : I wasn’t actually able to get passed the Skyrim game loading screen for Skyrim in Windows XP. It doesn’t matter. Your goal here is to install program files and enable add-ons. That’s all. ***

Install Skyrim for Windows patches inside VMware.
Install Skyrim for Windows mods inside VMware (i used Nexus’s NMM mod manager to manage the add ons)
Run SkyrimLauncher.exe and click on “Data” and make sure whatever mod you enabled are “on” / checked. You may need to read NFO files to figure out how to Ungrey the data option (it’s in an .ini file), but if you can’t figure it out, it’s not the end of the world. Install shit via NMM and you’ll be fine.

{MAC PART}

Download this or any other torrent that includes a Cider wrapper (or, if you can find it, a stand alone Cider wrapper, but i’ve not tested this).
Unzip/Unrar your Skyrim for Mac download if you haven’t already done so. Hopefully the torrent will contain an icon with system preferences and with the main Skyrim game.
Right click on the main Mac skyrim game icon and click on Show Package Contents.
Navigate to: Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim.
Delete everything that’s there (put it in the trash). Keep %USERPROFILE% if the folder exists (don’t worry if it doesn’t, it’s not that important).
Move C:\Program Files\The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim from your VMware machine over to Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim on your mac.
* If you didn’t add any mods, dont worry about this part*
Navigate to Contents/. You should see an info.plist file. Open ‘er up.
Under CedegaGameName, you’ll see a value called C:\Program Files/The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim/TESV.EXE. If you added a loader (maybe you installed SKYUI and you need the SLSK wrapper), change it. Mine reads: C:\Program Files/The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim/skse_loader.exe. * If you didn’t add any mods, dont worry about this part (end)*

You now have an updated Skyrim with whatever mods you want.

You should be able to simply double click on the skyrim game icon in your mac and play to your hearts content.

Worked for me. Hope it works for you.

1: If you want games designed for WINDOWS (!) Then don’t waste your time and money on Apple systems.

2: Spit in Steve Jobs Face

3: Get Windows 7 + Good PC Hardware

4: ???

5: Profit.

*trollface*

If iput Skyrim on windows using bootcamp would it work well?

Cheers

My problem is that I have to run Skyrim on a 800×600 resolution with the lowest display options to have “decent” fps (still not the best). I’ve been doing some research lately and found out that many people say that with my computer specs skyrim would run just fine on windows (using bootcamp). I even read some people run it on 1280 x 800 resolution with medium graphics and they still have good fps.
I’ve got the following questions:
Is this true? Does Skyrim run better on windows than on mac (using cider wrapper) having the same specs?
If it does, is there a way that I can use Skyrim mac application to install it on windows? (for example opening The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim.app package contents and copying those files into windows) Would this work? I ask this so that I don’t have to go through all the downloading and installing again on Windows just to see if it runs better.

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions

RUN ON ULTRA SETTINGS WITHOUT A GAMEPAD/CONTROLLER. IT WILL WORK BETTER THAN ANY OTHER SETTING INCLUDING LOW!

with a gamepad/controller, (which i unfortunately did not grab the genuine windows adapter) settings can be slightly choppy, but only because i have to use the damn GPC.

Anyone know that if i had the genuine wireless adapter that actually says Microsoft can I completely skip using gamepad controller or any other third party?