Schneider

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.

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.

It does not help.

I don't mind a little lag but what makes the game unplayable is the fact that mouse and keyboard events become Poisson when the dialog screen is open. I have no idea how many times I have to click on the dialog option before it takes effect and I dare not quadruple-click it lest it skips the next one.

Progress: outside the store room at the start of the game.

Symptoms: slowing down when characters other than the PC move; keypress and mouseclick have a chance of having no effect in inventory screen and during conversations.

OS: MS Windows XP Pro sp3 (5.1, Build 2600)

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz

RAM: 512 MB

Monitor: IBM9521

Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Model: 684434J

BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 for IBM NetVista

DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

Graphic Adapter: NVIDIA VAnta/Vanta LT

DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC

Display Memory Size: 16 MB

Bios Information: Version 3.05.00.10.57

Vanta Timing Mode: Auto-Detect

Hardware Acceleration: Full (Geneforge 5 cannot display images when hardware acceleration is nil)

Main Driver: nv4_disp.dll

Version: 6.14.0010.4523 (English)

Date: 7/28/2003 14:19:00

WHQL Logo'd: Yes

Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys

VDD: n/a

DDI Version: 7

Vanta OpenGL settings:

Support for enhanced CPU instruction sets: Enabled

(Disabling this and Geneforge 5 displays rectangles in place of characters)

Unified back/depth buffer: Not Used

Quadbuffered stereo API: Disabled

Overlays: Disabled

Texture memory: Not Maximized.

Conformant OpenGL texture clamp behaviour: Disabled

Default Color Depth: Always use 16 bpp

Buffer-Flipping Mode: Auto-select

Vertical Sync: Always off

Anisotropic Filtering: Disabled

Vanta Direct3D settings:

Fog table emulation: Disabled

Texture Anisotropic Setting: 2x (Lag increases when it is at 0x)

Mipmap Detail Level: Best Performance

PCI Texture Memory Size: Use up to 63 MB of system memory for textures in PCI mode

Refresh rate: controlled by applications

Sound device:

Name: Intel Integrated Audio

Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086DEV_2445SUBSYS_02451014REV_1;

Manufacturer ID: 1

Product ID: 100

Type: WDM

Driver Name: ac97intc.sys

Version: 5.10.0000.3523 (English)

Date: 8/17/1002 20:20:04

WHQL Logo'd: Yes

Provider: Microsoft

Hardware Sound Acceleration Level: Full

(All tests passed)

dxdiag settings:

DirectDraw Acceleration: Enabled

Direct3D Acceleration: Enabled

AGP Texture Acceleration: Enabled

(All tests passed)

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