Are Intel based Mac users still having problems?

[Caarrie]

As far as i know Trymm has yet to rebuild the Intel mac part of the client to try to fix this.

[vedrit]

i dont mean to sound rude or anything, becuase i know the devs and every one is doing all they can, but maybe it would be a good idea to take the MAC version down for a little while to fix some major problems (Like the freezing, and problem I, and others, by the look of it, am experiancing).
I have a little experiance in making games, but if any help is needed, i would help out

[Trymm]

i dont mean to sound rude or anything, becuase i know the devs and every one is doing all they can, but maybe it would be a good idea to take the MAC version down for a little while to fix some major problems

From what I can see, the the major problems (i.e. system freeze) are hardware specific. There ARE macs on which the current client works. Thus, I do not think it is a good idea to take it down. If you are having problems with "black polygons" or "everything is black", i.e. problems with the lighting, then I hope (*crosses fingers*) that this has been corrected now. As to when an update will be released for that I do not know. If you are too impatient to wait for the update, start the client from the command line using the option --fullbright to TURN LIGHTING OFF, or alternatively use --relight to RELIGHT THE REGIONS. If you are REALLY impatient, feel free to look at this too:

http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=27528.msg334807#msg334807

but be aware that this is not official, and might not work. It also relies upon the fact that you have downloaded everything from the official release first.

[vedrit]

How can it be hardware, when it has worked in the past? And no, im not having a problem with the "black polygons", just the freezing.
If it IS just hardware, then I guess it is up to the individual to try and get things working, as there is really nothing any one else can do, aside from what help they may have. *Sigh* I hate MACs...(No offence to anyone that loves them, I just prefer PCs.)

*EDIT*
I used another character, and the same thing happened when I tried to go between Hydlaa and the magic shop. I think that area should be checked. Also, if its possible, could I get my chars, i dunno....teleported back to Hydlaa?

[Trymm]

How can it be hardware, when it has worked in the past?

I did not mean to imply that there is something wrong with the hardware. I just ment that the current client does not work well with all combinations of hardware. Even if previous versions of the client did work, that does not mean the current one should.

[Unnamed_Source]

*Sigh* I hate MACs...(No offence to anyone that loves them, I just prefer PCs.)

You have an Intel mac, why don't you dual boot or erase the Mac OS completely and turn it into Wintel box. It's entirely the same thing as if you would have gotten a High end Dell or HP, just with the added Apple Kernal allowing you boot the Mac OS. Windows and all assiciate programes will ignore it.

[ponder]

*Sigh* I hate MACs...(No offence to anyone that loves them, I just prefer PCs.)

You have an Intel mac, why don't you dual boot or erase the Mac OS completely and turn it into Wintel box. It's entirely the same thing as if you would have gotten a High end Dell or HP, just with the added Apple Kernal allowing you boot the Mac OS. Windows and all assiciate programes will ignore it.

Yeah and then you have to pay for a Windows XP license.  Better do what I did and install Fedora 7 dusl boot.

[vedrit]

(Totally off topic, but o well.)
It wasnt my desicion to get a mac in the first place, but my room-mate. I just use it cause, if anything happens, its not my computer that goes down, lol.

So, is there any way, anything short of deleting the char, to fix this prob?

[Caarrie]

there is no fix right now and as far as i know deleting your character will not help this

[aeris311]

Really, the biggest problem is that few (if any) of the programmers actually HAVE or even use macs.  I know two of the mods for this chan don't, although they're all attentive and try their best to help us cope.  I'm also having a straight away freezing problem when I log into the server, if i'm lucky it'll last half a minute before the game freezes.  I'm using an intel macbookpro with an ATY radeon graphics card (no I did not get that wrong).  Although I'm no programmer I think the wide variety of graphics cards used in macs causes the problems in getting a client that works for everyone.  How many of you with the freezing problem have an ATY radeon card?  Hopefully the census of system specs will help SOON.... (hasn't played the game since the update......)

thanks to the team for your relentless efforts though

[Caarrie]

Really, the biggest problem is that few (if any) of the programmers actually HAVE or even use macs.  I know two of the mods for this chan don't, although they're all attentive and try their best to help us cope. 

Both Cha0s and Dfryer use macs and Dfryer is the mac dev that made the release.