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[UmarOMC1]

DiRT: Showdown $19.99 as of this writing

[ikir]

8,99€ On italian store right now (50% discount)... very temped.

[henryfakesmile]

the game is fun as hell... anyone would like to play together feel free to PM me and lets play together on game center!!!

[henryfakesmile]

GOD DAMN IT!! all iMac players are unable to buy the game because of the mac app store screwing up things ( however i could buy it on macbook pro retina & mac pro so it only occur on the iMac )
and here is the official respond from the developer ... god this game is just so much fun crashing & racing around!

• 
  Hi,
  We have set exactly one requirement on the game: that the graphics card has to support OpenGL 4.1.
  We followed the description in Apple's technical document here: https://developer.ap...748/_index.html
  and set the sole requirement:
  <dict>
  <key>gl-renderer</key>
  <string>( version >= 4.1 )</string>
  </dict>
  If this results in App Store labeling your card as unsuitable for the game, then it's an issue on App Store's side, as s own capabilities tables show your card as capable of supporting OpenGL 4.1: https://developer.ap...l/capabilities/
  We will contact AppStore about the matter, but if you could contact them as well, if might make them react more promptly.

[JaguarGod]

Well, i have to admit that I'm a little disappointed in the game. I am very happy to be able to get the game on my Mac. But Feral does such a great job with the Codemasters racing games and the difference in the performance is bad. Great performance and even FFB with wheels . I can run F1 2013, Dirt 2, Grid 2 and others on ultra settings on my Mac Pro, but this game I have to use much lower settings? Very strange. There's no FFB either. I guess I should not compare what Feral does porting to what Virtual Programming does, but it's pretty clear that Feral is awesome. I do like the fact that VP ported the game and I can play it on my Mac for just $10. I just wish it was better.

[macdude22]

JaguarGod, on 30 November 2014 - 04:39 PM, said:

There's no FFB either. I guess I should not compare what Feral does porting to what Virtual Programming does, but it's pretty clear that Feral is awesome. I do like the fact that VP ported the game and I can play it on my Mac for just $10. I just wish it was better.

I have not had a pleasant experience with VPLD in the past few years. It seems like anything that has been ported with their eON technology is badman. Witcher 2 can be run on high in windows on my mac pro but on OS X even on the lowest settings is unplayable.

[JaguarGod]

I received a reply from VP about the FFB......

"No. In current version of the Mac port of the game FFB support is not present. We expect to include it in the future update, at the same time when we update the HID interface used to contact joysticks and gamepads in general to new version of Apple's API."

[UmarOMC1]

macdude22, on 30 November 2014 - 04:54 PM, said:

I have not had a pleasant experience with VPLD in the past few years. It seems like anything that has been ported with their eON technology is badman. Witcher 2 can be run on high in windows on my mac pro but on OS X even on the lowest settings is unplayable.

That's what makes their ports crap and make me not want to buy anything they port?

[henryfakesmile]

UmarOMC1, on 02 December 2014 - 12:52 AM, said:

That's what makes their ports crap and make me not want to buy anything they port?

UmarOMC1, on 02 December 2014 - 12:52 AM, said:

That's what makes their ports crap and make me not want to buy anything they port?

JaguarGod, on 30 November 2014 - 04:39 PM, said:

Well, i have to admit that I'm a little disappointed in the game. I am very happy to be able to get the game on my Mac. But Feral does such a great job with the Codemasters racing games and the difference in the performance is bad. Great performance and even FFB with wheels . I can run F1 2013, Dirt 2, Grid 2 and others on ultra settings on my Mac Pro, but this game I have to use much lower settings? Very strange. There's no FFB either. I guess I should not compare what Feral does porting to what Virtual Programming does, but it's pretty clear that Feral is awesome. I do like the fact that VP ported the game and I can play it on my Mac for just $10. I just wish it was better.

because its being ported by  
Virtual Programming Ltd , their games tend to have low performance because all of em arent native osx port

[DirtyHarry50]

The App Store update to fix Dirt Showdown so that it will save progress still has not landed as of this morning. They told me they had submitted a fix already on October 13th to the App Store. This seems a rather long time for them to approve something. Oh, well.

[Frigidman™]

You mean well after a YEAR from this game being released VP finally got around to an update that may or may not work still?

Heh.

[DirtyHarry50]

Well, I don't honestly know at what point the saving became an issue or if it was from the start. It runs fine. It just won't save your progress so unless they fix it I wouldn't bother myself. I trashed what I had and am waiting for an updated version. I keep bugging them about this as I posted in the "VP Strikes Again" thread here. Ten days for the App Store to approve a game patch seems a bit much and made me wonder if some issue had cropped up so I put in a ticket asking them about that.

[Jan]

The game is down to 1,99 € on the Mac App Store again. Pulled the plug, got screwed again by VP. On first launch, it immediately crashed to the desktop after a few seconds. Now the game keeps freezing a 2015 Retina iMac soon after the menu screen. It's only been two bucks, but even that's too much for a game which won't even start. I cannot believe how fraked up everything VP got in the last few years.

[DirtyHarry50]

Yep. If it's by VP - it ain't for me!