Performance, Weird Shaders...

by asdfdasfadsfconorndjksfhakjdshfjadsk on 12/15/2007 08:38, 16 messages, last message: 12/16/2007 21:16, 1485 views, last view: 04/21/2024 13:26

Hi, I got Sauerbraten for my Mac (MacBook Pro) and I run it at 1280x720x24. No AA, shaderdetail 3, water stuff on, no bloom (and if it is on it takes about 5 fps away).

I get really bad performance and really weird wall shaders.

If I run it under Windows on the same computer, I am getting 150-200 fps on the same map with bloom, shaders, 1440x900x32.



Specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2Ghz
2GB Ram
nVidia GeForce 8600m
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.


Here is what it looks like:

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/7997/screenshot125840ea3.jpg

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by steve_e on 12/15/2007 12:34

I have no idea, mate, but it looks pretty ugly.

Impressed with the performance of the Mac laptop under Windows - colleagues at a local Uni all use macs and run Windows and swear by them - I wouldn't believe them, but perhaps it is true that the Windows emulation runs really well on the Mac.

Hope you get your problem sorted. Cheers.

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by Hirato Kirata on 12/15/2007 12:52, refers to #1

If he's running windows under mac at such high performance, he's much more likely running it through bootcamp than parallels, VMWare or any of the other virtual machine programs.

I don't know what your problem is either, but the 8*** series is known to be rather unstable

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by SanHolo on 12/15/2007 14:59

I have no idea what causes this, on my MBP with a Radeon X1600 it runs perfect. But a quick note: Why do you chose to not run it with native resolution?

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by MovingTarget on 12/15/2007 15:26

It seems to be a shader problem... do you have all the latest drivers?

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by absinth_grrr on 12/15/2007 19:27

>It seems to be a shader problem... do you have all the latest drivers?
Mac OS X has all drivers included, they are updated with system updates and can't be updated manually

i suspect this problem comes from the 8600m drivers, apple has had bad problems with the drivers for the latest ATI/nVIDIA revision, hopefully a future system update will cure this.

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by James007 on 12/15/2007 22:06

I myself run windows natively on my mac, runs just like any other pc running windows(if not better ;).

My brother also has trouble with the shaders, his new mac runs leopard. when i turn the shaders off the game runs fine.

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#7: Bootcamp.

by asdfdasfadsfconorndjksfhakjdshfjadsk on 12/15/2007 22:53

I am running Windows XP SP2 through BootCamp.

And turning shaders off still gives me horrible performance.

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by CC_machine#10932712341 on 12/15/2007 23:51, refers to #1

it's not emulated. it IS windows, because the new Macs are x86s, the same architechture as a windows PC, i.e. PCs!

your mac is a PC, hehe :D

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by James007 on 12/16/2007 00:46

ok....
i am going to give Sauer a try on windows(on my mac).
and correct, windows is not emulated on the macs. windows runs natively :P

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by James007 on 12/16/2007 01:31

i tried sauer in windows xp, the frame rates were high but i was getting these odd lag spikes every few seconds. It didnt look as good as when i played on mac, and some of the levels seemed new to me. In one of the rpg maps there werent any people or enemies....(there are when i play on my mac)

i think my drivers and every thing are pretty up to date. i have played nextgen games on windows so idk.

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by Hirato Kirata on 12/16/2007 02:58, refers to #10

The reason the monsters don't show is probably because you forgot to run sauer with the -grpg tag.

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by eivets2 on 12/16/2007 18:52, refers to #5

I have the very same machine and the latest official version of sauer runs just fine. Same speed as on a similar windows machine.

I also use 10.5

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by eivets2 on 12/16/2007 18:52, refers to #5

I have the very same machine and the latest official version of sauer runs just fine. Same speed as on a similar windows machine.

I also use 10.5

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by eivets2 on 12/16/2007 18:52, refers to #5

I have the very same machine and the latest official version of sauer runs just fine. Same speed as on a similar windows machine.

I also use 10.5

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by eivets2 on 12/16/2007 18:52, refers to #5

I have the very same machine and the latest official version of sauer runs just fine. Same speed as on a similar windows machine.

I also use 10.5

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by jbuk2k7s cookie has gone on 12/16/2007 21:16, refers to #15

Try not to click the submit button 4 times.

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