Curious Artila b Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 I'm running the newest versions of the avernum trilogy on a Mac running 10.4.9, and the game speed is ungodly slow, even just moving my party takes a noticable amount of time. Is this something that can be fixed in any ways other than the settings in game, which help a little, but not as much as I'd like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 When the Intel version of Tiger was updated to 10.4.8, something was modified in Rosetta which made the Avernum games terribly slow. Jeff is aware of the problem. Whether or not we will see Universal versions of the Avernum trilogy remains to be seen. In the meantime, the games run fine in emulated Windows under Parallels or VMWare, and you can always run them in a BootCamp partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Spidweb Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 A number of people have had this problem. However, it's not universal ... the games run fine on my Intel Mac. At this point, unless Apple straightens out whatever they did to Rosetta, the only thing that would fix the problem is Universalizing all three games, which would take a considerable amount of time. So right now, I'm waiting to see what Apple does. Sorry I can't be of more help at this point. - Jeff Vogel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Too bad! I can't play A1-3 at all. But it is cool watching a fireball travel across the screen in slow motion. I would think that this speed problem is also discouraging people from buying those games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I upgraded to 10.4.10, and the problem still exists. I think it's reasonable to assume that if Apple were going to do something, they would have done so already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Xaiya Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 If you can, you can try an earlier version. If not...join the windows side, we can see outside. Being serious- with a windows xp, you can try the windows version. Maybe the windows version wont be so slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Good news! The games run fine in the OS X 10.5 beta (Build 9A499). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan La paix Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 How did you acquire the beta? Did you go to that conference or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Thralni Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Well how do you think? (Or at least I presume that) he got it illegaly, by using a torrent. For a very long time already you could have downloaded it, you know... The reason I didn't do it, was that I'd rather await a stable version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Given Tyran's known affinity for Apple, I'd conclude he's got an Apple Developer Connection before assuming illegal downloading. Granted, that's rather expensive, but maybe Tyran has deep pockets and a deep appreciation for Leopard. —Alorael, who wishes he had deep pockets too. Not just for Apple, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Spidweb Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 "Good news! The games run fine in the OS X 10.5 beta (Build 9A499)." There are many ways to get an advance copy of an OS. After all, Apple and Microsoft strongly encourage developers to get such advance copies to ensure that necessary software does not explode on release. If whatever in Rosetta broke the Avernum games in 10.4.8 becomes non-broke in OS X 10.5 it will make me a very happy person. - Jeff Vogel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 I just upgraded to 9A500n, and the games still run fine. There is a slight problem though. Leopard doesn't allow applications to create files in the root hard drive directory. The installer should probably be changed so that the game ends up in the Applications folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila SoItBegins Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 I don't have any problems-- but I'm a rabid adherent of the old architecture, still unchained and unmastered. It will rise again-- I swear it. It will rise again!!!!! ...heh-heh. Sorry. ...what? ...hey, the sign said 'Leave Sanity at Door'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Ming Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Quote: Originally written by Tyranicus:When the Intel version of Tiger was updated to 10.4.8, something was modified in Rosetta which made the Avernum games terribly slow. Jeff is aware of the problem. Whether or not we will see Universal versions of the Avernum trilogy remains to be seen. In the meantime, the games run fine in emulated Windows. Wow, that's really unfortunate considering Jeff put so much time into modernizing these games...just to have an OS revision mess with his work yet again. Let's hope it works in 10.5! - Says Ming who uses Windows but wants as many people as possible playing these games cuz they're so cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Did you read my posts at all? It does work with 10.5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Ming Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Quote: Originally written by Tyranicus:Did you read my posts at all? It does work with 10.5. I thought you were still on 10.5 Beta. I see that you are using a more recent built. I've seen many things reverted in beta builds, which is why I commented. But I'm not a Mac user so I can't say whether or not that kind of thing holds true with Macs. Isn't Leopard 9A527 out now? Just to developers, perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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