Fledgling Fyora Schneider Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Snow Leopard 10.6.1 on the new 15-inch Macbook Pro. All pixels black. Has sound. Recognizes ^[. Then this. <img src="http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f354/MGauldoth/screen.png"/> (Aaargh whatever just go here.) Nothing helped. Not even a solid reboot. A redownload. Ridding the folder of the funky Meta-f. Putting the folder in ~/Applications. Putting it in /Applications. Putting it in /. Nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Locmaar Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 The error dialog says Geneforge 5. Are you sure you are trying Avernum 6? The latter worked for me with Snow Leopard on two different machines during beta testing. edit: I just checked on Geneforge 5 and there are some graphics issues (colored squares around virtually everything that moves. Which version of which application did you actually download? edit2: and even that glitch is fixed in GF 5 v 1.0.4. You should mail Jeff about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Spidweb Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 It mistakenly says Geneforge 5. This will be fixed in v1.0.1. First, the obvious question. Is the game being played from a hard drive you reformatted? If so, is there any chance at all that it is case-sensitive? Also, try playing Geneforge 5. Let me know if the graphics there are working. That will help me to troubleshoot the problem. - Jeff Vogel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora Schneider Posted November 21, 2009 Author Share Posted November 21, 2009 Yes, my fs is Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled). How ignorant of me. This is my first Mac. I never thought the OS used to depart so much from the tradition. Geneforge 5 gives exactly the same error, with the correct icon this time. I'm not thrilled at making my Terminal feel like cmd.exe. UNIX has been case-sensitive for eons immemorial and I'd not like to change it now. So what do you think, Mr. Vogel? Will you support UNIX geeks or must I create a new partition solely for Spiderweb games? UPDATE: It's weird. I put the game in a partition of Mac Extended case-insensitive fs, with or without journaling, and one of FAT. In no case did the game work. It's the same black screen and error message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila rampancy Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 I've also had issues with running other games on Case-Sensitive formatted volumes. I think I remember that Giants: Citizen Kabuto didn't like Case-Sensitive volumes, and I think I also remember reading that COD4 doesn't like them either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora wrc Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 I just fixed this problem for myself. Early Call of Duty games had the case-insensitive issues as well. COD4 is perfectly happy using the right system calls. In at least enough instances to matter, Avernum 6 uses full pathnames of files, not relative pathnames. This means if you have a case-insensitive partition or DMG that you keep the game on, but it is mounted on a case-sensitive filesystem, it still won't work. Here's my specific situation, and how I fixed it. I keep case-sensitive games in a DMG .. call it "Games". It is normally mounted in the filesystem at /Volumes/Games Everything under Games is case-insensitive. The root filesystem is case-sensitive. So, when Avernum 6 tries to access something like /volumes/games/avernum 6 ƒ/avernum 6 files/graphics/g1520.png ...it fails. As far as OSX is concerned, Volumes and Games needs to be capitalized. Everything after that is case-insensitive. So, I have created a directory in the root of my filesystem called "/volumes". OSX knows this is different than the system-default "/Volumes". I create a symbolic link under /volumes called "games". It points to /Volumes/Games. That way, when the program tries the full path, all lower-case, it ends up in the right spot. In a console/shell: mkdir /volumes ln -s /Volumes/Games /volumes/games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Man, that's a good trick. I mean, it's not exactly the most practical workaround to recommend to everyone, but that's clever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora wrc Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 It's worked so far. I can save/reload games. I'm keeping my fingers crossed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fledgling Fyora wrc Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 I've gotten to the point where an Avernum spymaster is sending me on an assassination, so I think this fix is a win. If anyone is using case-sensitive root filesystems in OSX, this seems to get around the issue when mounting other filesystems (virtual in my case) in the tree. -Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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