[Mac] Low performance

[Dandie1992]

The thing is aswell. When the terrain_no fix worked, fair enough the land was black but the game run fine! Borders and everything was there. All I needed was some colour and the game is absolutely fine. I don't need the terrain view more than I need the political view.

 

[Svampen]

The -forcedlc switch should work.

That did the trick. Thanks!

 

[Disease]

That did the trick. Thanks!

where do i do what with that line? o

 

[DominusNovus]

Another Twittersphere update I've got.

@cmvbrielman asked Johan on the same late September patch tweet about the new national ideas "And for those of us Mac users with Nvidia cards?"

Johans reply "i'll check with the coders.. If it runs smooth on linux with same card, its most likely drivers"

That was me.

 

[eroskos]

Adding my info to aid diagnosis and fix.

MacBook Mid2010
2.4 Intel Core 2 Duo
8GB 1067MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256mb -- I feel dumb for not noticing this is under spec
OSX 10.8.4

Current settings.txt

force_pow2_textures=no
language="l_english"
graphics=
{
size=
{
x=1280
y=800
}

min_gui=
{
x=1280
y=720
}

refreshRate=0
fullScreen=yes
shadows=no
shadowSize=2048
multi_sampling=0
anisotropic_filtering=0
gamma=50.000000
}
sound_fx_volume=44.000000
music_volume=43.000000
scroll_speed=50.000000
camera_rotation_speed=50.000000
zoom_speed=50.000000
mouse_speed=50.000000
master_volume=100.000000
ambient_volume=50.000000
combat_sound_random=6
mapRenderingOptions=
{
draw_terrain=yes
draw_water=no
draw_borders=no
draw_trees=no
draw_rivers=no
draw_postfx=no
draw_sky=yes
draw_bloom=no
draw_tooltips=no
draw_hires_terrain=no
draw_citysprawl=no
draw_shadows=no
draw_reflections=no
draw_ambient_objects=no
moving_units=no
}
camera_speed=50.000000
camera_tilt=100.000000
centered_zoom_in=yes
lastplayer="Player"
lasthost=""
debug_saves=0
autosave="YEARLY"
autosave_tocloud=no
difficulty="LUCK_NONE"
outliner=
{
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 }
outliner_open=yes
messagelist_open=yes
windowmovetime=0.200000
hints=yes
custom_mapmodes=
{
0 1 4 3 2 5 }

 

[eroskos]

So we'll just have to cross our fingers for 10.9 then? And what if 10.9 don't support newer versions of OpenGL?

It was stated several times on this forum by devs that EU4 would have the same system reqs as CK2. Of course you take for granted it won't matter if it's PC or mac. It was just a couple of weeks before the release that the VRAM req. simply doubled for mac.. Without a clear announcement.

I'm just lucky i never sold my old PC..

OSX Mavericks will support OpenGL 4.1, according to Apple's Developer Preview from June. http://www.geeks3d.com/20130611/apple-adds-opengl-4-support-in-os-x-10-9-mavericks/

 

[unmerged(65679)]

From my side I run the 1st version rMBP 15inch. Even on Ironman it has run quite nicely for me. Having said that its been playing up recently for unknown reasons. I'd load the game and it would be god awful slow when previously it was fine. A reset normally fixed such things.
Now it won't even load and i'm unsure if its 10.8.5 OSX just released that has done it or not. So i've deleted EU4 and am re-downloading. But its a shade buggy on a mac yes.

 

[Dandie1992]

about to download Mac OSX 10.8.5 and see if that makes a difference. I'm pretty clueless when it comes to technology at the level those on here are discussing but I still hold a fools hope that 10.8.5 does something.

 

[greghueners]

I haven't read through the whole thread, but the problem doesn't seem to be the computers, it is something with the game. I have bootcamp and the game runs fine on the window's partition, but is unplayable on the mac side.

MacBook Mid2010
2.4 GHz intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB

 

[eroskos]

I haven't read through the whole thread, but the problem doesn't seem to be the computers, it is something with the game. I have bootcamp and the game runs fine on the window's partition, but is unplayable on the mac side.

MacBook Mid2010
2.4 GHz intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB

I'm pretty convinced from the conversation in this thread that the superior PC performance is due to DirectX and the move to OpenGL 4 in OSX Mavericks will help. I'm also prepared to be wrong!

I did the Wineskin technique on my MacBook and it certainly ran better though I only had a chance to play for about fifteen minutes.

 

[eroskos]

I don't think 10.8.5 will do anything unless I missed something in the notes. I'm going to try it out later tonight though. In the meantime, I'm just gonna have to wait until the end of Oct when 10.9 comes out. MORE WAITING. grar.

 

[Exiled_Noble99]

Hey, i got a friend that has some major performance issues with his mac. He has met the requirements, but it still lags like crap.

 

[Dandie1992]

Any word of progress coming in 1.2?

 

[Exiled_Noble99]

Yea, any feedback?

 

[Exiled_Noble99]

Got a call from my friend. It works great now. Thank you paradox.

 

[AndrewT]

Got a call from my friend. It works great now. Thank you paradox.

It works now because of ... ? An update to OS X 10.8.5? Because 1.2 isn't out quite yet. There are many performance fixes in 1.2, BTW
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?723720-1.2-Stability-amp-Performance-fixes

 

[EUTony]

That bit about optimization when trees/rivers/etc. disabled looks promising.

 

[Exiled_Noble99]

I dont know what happened but my friend got it to work. Ill see what he did later.

 

[unmerged(65679)]

A poster above mentioned waiting for OS 10.9 as opposed to the current 10.8.5. Whats supposedly going to be the big performance leap between the 2?

 

[AndrewT]

A poster above mentioned waiting for OS 10.9 as opposed to the current 10.8.5. Whats supposedly going to be the big performance leap between the 2?

See post #126.