Garrulous Glaahk Apollyon Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I've got a nice shiny new Macbook with 1 GB of RAM. I also have a new Intel iMac. I used to have a 400 Mhz iBook with 192 MB RAM. I've played Avernum 3 on all three (separate downloads) and they pretty much run at the same speed: slooooow. By slow I mean there's a slight delay when I click, and any graphic that is supposed to move fast (javelin, firebolt, other spells) moves with about the speed of dial-up internet download. I play it with no other apps running, I turn off background noises and special effects, I try different resolution configurations, I try running it out of full screen mode... nothing works. Avernum works fine, Avernum 2 is slightly slower, and Avernum 4 is awesome. Why would Avernum 3 run slow on my Mac's, and can it be fixed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Did you check preferences? There is a setting for machine speed although the default should be ok and the same for all the games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Rent-an-Ihrno Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 often colliding software components can cause problems like that. try using diskwarrior or conflictcatcher to check your hd. but then, thats quite improbable if its the same on all 3 macs. what else... uh... having the game installed on an almost full hd or hd-section could be the cause. ah, what do i know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Apollyon Posted August 11, 2006 Author Share Posted August 11, 2006 Quote: An article from TidBits on Conflict Catcher:Wanted: Conflict Catcher for Mac OS X Here's the good news. Mac OS X doesn't suffer from the same sort of conflicts that Mac OS 9 did. You will seldom, if ever, find that installing a new piece of software causes some other program to act in an unnatural, demon-possessed fashion. Apple promised that level of reliability, and they delivered. I've also noticed that playing Starcraft on my Mac's, the movie cut-scenes run slower than I would expect. It's not the CD either. Am I the only one with this problem? So is there anyone out there with the same problem? EDIT: I'm gonna try running A3 in Parallels, Win XP Pro. Theories anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Apollyon Posted August 11, 2006 Author Share Posted August 11, 2006 Okay, now that I'm on my MacBook, I created a quick party and ran to the bandit cave to test out the speed of the game in XP (which I can already see by walking around that it's much better). By far the slowest action in OS X was Bolt of Fire, so I tested it on a bandit. BAM! Flew across the screen like lightning and he crumpled to the ground. Then I got semi-excited and I opened up A3 in OS X and try Bolt of Fire on a rat... Still slow. I don't understand it. And I thought these games were made for Mac... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Jeff is a self-taught programmer, which is a nice way of saying he's not very good at it. Sometimes things that work OK on his computer act a little funny on other people's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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