PlaneShift

Support => Mac OSX Specific Issues => Topic started by: Shinyuuki on July 20, 2005, 12:07:46 am

Title: really REALLY weird thing happening after startup (loading) screen
Post by: Shinyuuki on July 20, 2005, 12:07:46 am

First off I followed Chaos\'s guide, even though I downloaded the stuff today, I ran all the update stuff he said to run.
Anyway after loading I got a screen that was the begining screen where i\'m guessing you can make a character, connect to the server and all that jazz.  The problem is where text should be are a bunch of white/beige boxes and the cursor is so slow it doesn\'t actually move most of the time, but every other 10 seconds if you click it\'ll sort of shift it\'s position.  I took a screenshot but it saved in PDF.  

If anyone can tell me how to get it to a jpeg so I can upload it that\'d be good.  

If anyone can tell me how to get to the page where I can turn off the sound and turn down all the graphics to make it smoother (or just work), and how to get there without using the psclient.app that\'d be great

If anyone can tell me what\'s going on and how to fix it that\'d be awesome

here\'s my comp information, and unless my comp came with a graphics card I dont\' have one.
Machine Model   Powebook G4 (version=11.3)
System Version Mac OS 10.2.8 (6R73)
Machine Speed 500 MHz
Bus Speed        100 MHz
Number of Processors 1
L2 cache size              1 MB
RAM                 512 MB

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Post by: Cha0s on July 20, 2005, 02:17:05 am

First, your comp definitely came with a graphics card, but it isn\'t very good (like mine :P ). Second your processor and RAM are a bit low for the game (ok, very low. It barely runs on my 667 TiBook with 1024 MB RAM). Third, I\'m not sure how the game runs on the Powerbook in 10.2 as I always run it in 10.3. Fourth, I don\'t turning down setting will fix this problem. One thing you can try is seeing if there is any output in the Console. You can do this by opening /Applications/Utilities/Console(.app), clearing the log, and then copy/pasting the output into a forum post. If it is really really long, you may want to email it to me and/or dfryer.

If you can get OS 10.3 or 10.4, try installing those and giving it a shot. Whatever you do, tell us how it goes.

P.S. To convert that PDF to a JPEG, get a copy of GraphicsConverter at http://lemkesoft.com .

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Post by: Shinyuuki on July 20, 2005, 03:06:11 am

Not being too smart, I\'m not sure what you mean by \'clearing the log and posting the output\'.  from console I can \'open log\' or \'clean\' among other things...I\'m not sure what you want me to do, sorry...

anyway I\'ve got that picture converted, and you can see what it\'s looking like for me at this link:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/samphil/PlainShift.jpg

thanks

Edit: the link proving that I can\'t spell \"plane\" :P...

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Post by: Cha0s on July 21, 2005, 12:58:32 am

With the log, all I mean is that you \"clean\" it and then open Planeshift. Once it finishes loading, flip back to the log, select all the stuff in the it and copy it. Then paste it into a forum post. If there isn\'t anything helpful in there (I\'ll tell you after I see it ;) ), you\'ll have to wait for dfryer to drop by, as I\'m not sure what the problem is from what I\'ve seen so far.

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Post by: Shinyuuki on July 21, 2005, 09:33:27 pm

I\'m gonna email it too you...it\'s pretty long.

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Thanks for the email.  Apologies in advance because I know double-posting is frowned upon generally but I just want dfryer to know I\'m still here (assuming he got the foreward of the log from cha0s).

Thanks for everything so far :D

Cha0s\'s edit: posts merged ;)

My edit: at least I know you\'re still here :D

PS. do you know if the developers and/or artists would appreciate some freelance concept art (done for free)?  I\'m not a super-great artist but I\'m decent, and if I could help at all in that field do you know who I\'d need to contact?

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Post by: hramrach on August 08, 2005, 05:52:51 pm

Problems with displaying fonts are common on other platforms as well. It is usually graphics card/driver incompatibility with CrystalSpace.

You can determine what graphics card you have in Apple Profiler (in apple menu choose \"About this mac\" and press \"More info\").

I suspect that OS X 10.2 may be the problem.

Also a 500MHz cpu is not much.

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Post by: dfryer on August 10, 2005, 03:47:26 pm

The combination of boxy letters and really slow frame rate would indicate to me that crystal space and your graphics card don\'t get along, so the model of your graphics card + the amount of VRAM it has would be most helpful right now.

Unfortunately, the answer might be that you just won\'t have the muscle;  A Geforce2MX with 32MB VRAM is pretty much bottom of the line (that\'s what I use) and it gets you about 0.5-5 fps in the Hydlaa Plaza.