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 August 29th 2009, 02:54 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: August 29 '09 Member No.: 13,113  |
I've just upgraded to Snow Leopard and started up all my programs in turn to reenter registration information if needed and check for compatibility issues.
There were several games among them. Most seem to work fine (or at least they start up fine): Age of Empires III American McGee's Alice™ Apeiron X Bubble Trouble X Command & Conquer Generals Command and Conquer - Red Alert 3 Command and Conquer 3 Deimos Rising Doom 3 Dungeon Siege Halo Heroes of Might and Magic V Jade Empire Special Edition Kitty Spangles Solitaire Myth II Neverwinter Nights On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 1 & 2 Oni Pangea Arcade™ Prince of Persia The Two Thrones Quake 4 Quake3 Warcraft III WingNuts 2 XIII One application seems to be broken under 10.6 though: it's the great RPG 'Freedom Force'. Here is the error as reported in the 'FF.err' file: PYTHON: 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback glob: Undefined error: 0 glob: No such file or directory glob: No such file or directory cpu time = 0x0000041b : 0x01f6e652 cpu time = 0x0000041b : 0x01f8714e System processor count is 2 MacPLay no longer exists, but the port was made by the OmniGroup at the time. So maybe a patch is not out of the question? Let's hope so anyway. I'd hate to see that game remain incompatible. Best. |
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August 29th 2009, 09:23 AM
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Heroic  Group: Members Posts: 328 Joined: August 24 '01 Member No.: 369 |
QUOTE(Enyale @ August 29th 2009, 09:54 AM)  I've just upgraded to Snow Leopard and started up all my programs in turn to reenter registration information if needed and check for compatibility issues. There were several games among them. Most seem to work fine (or at least they start up fine): Age of Empires III American McGee's Alice™ Apeiron X Bubble Trouble X Command & Conquer Generals Command and Conquer - Red Alert 3 Command and Conquer 3 Deimos Rising Doom 3 Dungeon Siege Halo Heroes of Might and Magic V Jade Empire Special Edition Kitty Spangles Solitaire Myth II Neverwinter Nights On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 1 & 2 Oni Pangea Arcade™ Prince of Persia The Two Thrones Quake 4 Quake3 Warcraft III WingNuts 2 XIII One application seems to be broken under 10.6 though: it's the great RPG 'Freedom Force'. Here is the error as reported in the 'FF.err' file: PYTHON: 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback glob: Undefined error: 0 glob: No such file or directory glob: No such file or directory cpu time = 0x0000041b : 0x01f6e652 cpu time = 0x0000041b : 0x01f8714e System processor count is 2 MacPLay no longer exists, but the port was made by the OmniGroup at the time. So maybe a patch is not out of the question? Let's hope so anyway. I'd hate to see that game remain incompatible. Best. I've not had much time to go through my games yet but you can add 4x4 Evo, Wolf ET, RTCW, and Virtual Grand Prix 3 to the OK list. Rosetta is needed for the PowerPC ones of course. I doubt we will see any patches for the old MacPlay titles, it didn't happen for FAKK2, Giants, NOLF2, AVP2, TRON 2 or SOF2 - they all either don't work of have serious issues since around 10.3. |
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August 29th 2009, 07:46 PM
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 Notorious Group: Members Posts: 207 Joined: December 27 '01 Member No.: 1,258 |
While it is not an ideal solution, you can play the steam version of Freedom Force in Crossover. Works great. You can get FF1 and 2 (the one that never made it to the mac) for a nice $7.49. You'll need the RC1 of Crossover Games 8, as 7 does not work in SL. You can get it at the Codeweavers support forums. I think the final version is supposed to come out Sept. 1.
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September 2nd 2009, 03:09 AM
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 Fan Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: March 25 '03 From: Paris / London Member No.: 3,632 |
How did you get Red Alert 3 working ? My copy launches fine but crashes when before entering any map.
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September 3rd 2009, 01:38 PM
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Fan Group: Members Posts: 40 Joined: October 18 '04 From: Arkansas Member No.: 6,540 |
What about Star Wars: Empire at War?
I finally got a new Intel chip mac (been living on a G4 for years) with Snow Leopard and I want to finally get this game. But I'd like to know if anyone has tested it out on 10.6 before I buy. Thanks! |
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September 4th 2009, 02:53 PM
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 Verbal Windbag Group: Members Posts: 4,482 Joined: August 23 '05 From: over there Member No.: 7,719 |
QUOTE(Stark Rhavyn @ September 3rd 2009, 09:38 PM) What about Star Wars: Empire at War? I finally got a new Intel chip mac (been living on a G4 for years) with Snow Leopard and I want to finally get this game. But I'd like to know if anyone has tested it out on 10.6 before I buy. Thanks! Works perfectly fine for me – I just tested it for some quick wasting of Rebel scum. (Now I just have to make myself stop whistling the Imperial March...) -------------------- "We do what we must, because we can."
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September 7th 2009, 08:23 AM
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Verbal Windbag Group: Members Posts: 4,482 Joined: August 23 '05 From: over there Member No.: 7,719 |
Okay, I found one casualty on the weekend: Fallout (1) does no longer work. The screen turns black and remains so, though the game is obviously running. A pity.
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September 9th 2009, 09:47 AM
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 Legendary Group: Members Posts: 1,158 Joined: March 20 '03 From: Denmark Member No.: 3,613 |
Heroes Of Newerth runs fine.
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September 11th 2009, 10:05 PM
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Notorious Group: Members Posts: 166 Joined: March 19 '08 Member No.: 10,964 |
Has anyone with a X1600 or X1900 upgraded to Snow Leopard and tried playing KOTOR?
http://www.brad-oliver.com:8081/~boliver/b...ves/001099.html Brad mentioned that the problem with poor performance with KOTOR and ATI HD2000 series GPUs and up in Leopard is that HD2000 and newer drivers no longer include support for ATI_text_fragment_shader. http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging...ties/index.html Well, it looks like it was a sign of things to come as Apple has dropped support for ATI_text_fragment_shader completely even in the X1000 series drivers in Snow Leopard. It makes me think that I might just hold off to buy a new MacBook Pro when the Nehalem refresh comes around rather than upgrading my X1600 MacBook Pro to Snow Leopard. Apple has also eliminated support for various iterations of the NV_register_combiners and NV_texture_shader extensions from all nVidia drivers in Snow Leopard, which might be the cause of some problems for nVidia owners and older games. |
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September 12th 2009, 01:18 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: September 12 '09 Member No.: 13,843 |
On my new MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard Age of Empires III (latest patches applied) suffers odd display flickering issues from time to time and CONSISTENTLY (e.g. every time) freezes about 40 minutes into the game (just when things get intense).
Anyone else see this? Is this a know issue with a fix on the way? I hope so! |
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September 12th 2009, 02:01 PM
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 Purdy Mouf Group: Members Posts: 617 Joined: February 23 '05 From: Miami / Homestead Member No.: 7,091 |
QUOTE(billworld @ September 12th 2009, 03:18 PM) On my new MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard Age of Empires III (latest patches applied) suffers odd display flickering issues from time to time and CONSISTENTLY (e.g. every time) freezes about 40 minutes into the game (just when things get intense). Anyone else see this? Is this a know issue with a fix on the way? I hope so! Sounds like a driver problem. Are your drivers up to date? Also did this happen before Snow Leopard? Oh and welcome to the forums. These guys should be able to help ya out 
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September 15th 2009, 12:40 PM
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Fan Group: Members Posts: 40 Joined: October 18 '04 From: Arkansas Member No.: 6,540 |
I just tried out Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns.
Seems to work just fine under Snow Leopard! Though, for some reason it wouldn't let me choose the biggest aspect ratio on my 24" iMac. I don't know about online play though. I haven't been able to play that game online in years anyway. GameRanger just made it way to complicated. |
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September 16th 2009, 11:45 AM
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Fan Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: September 11 '08 From: Bristol, UK Member No.: 11,615 |
QUOTE(Janichsan @ September 7th 2009, 03:23 PM) Okay, I found one casualty on the weekend: Fallout (1) does no longer work. The screen turns black and remains so, though the game is obviously running. A pity. I can report that Fallout 1 works perfectly for me. I'm on 10.6.1, with a late 2008 unibody MacBook Pro. |
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September 17th 2009, 11:34 PM
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 Official IMG Spambot Greeter Group: Members Posts: 2,525 Joined: June 3 '06 From: Melbourne, Australia Member No.: 8,659 |
I know this is rather off-topic, but my grandparents have been given a Macbook (white edition with 9400). Leopard was installed on it, when I opened it up and got it ready. As it was only bought very recently, Snow Leopard has been bundled with it.
Because of that, I am not sure if I should have Snow Leopard installed on it, or not? The reason for my thinking is because SL is only a few weeks old at the most, and Leopard was released in 07', would it be worth it installing it now, or waiting until a few of the bugs, and errors and other little things have been ironed out? This brings me onto the next questions… Has anyone found any (rather larger) irregularities or errors or anything bad happening with the OS update? Are there any other bad things that have happened from upgrading to SL? If not, what are some of the less obvious good things that you have found from upgrading? Thanks, Liberator. -------------------- |
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September 25th 2009, 09:30 AM
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 Feral Interactive Group: Developer Posts: 696 Joined: December 1 '03 From: London, England, UK Member No.: 4,854 |
QUOTE(The Liberator @ September 17th 2009, 10:34 PM) I know this is rather off-topic, but my grandparents have been given a Macbook (white edition with 9400). Leopard was installed on it, when I opened it up and got it ready. As it was only bought very recently, Snow Leopard has been bundled with it. Because of that, I am not sure if I should have Snow Leopard installed on it, or not? The reason for my thinking is because SL is only a few weeks old at the most, and Leopard was released in 07', would it be worth it installing it now, or waiting until a few of the bugs, and errors and other little things have been ironed out? This brings me onto the next questions… Has anyone found any (rather larger) irregularities or errors or anything bad happening with the OS update? Are there any other bad things that have happened from upgrading to SL? If not, what are some of the less obvious good things that you have found from upgrading? Thanks, Liberator. I would go with Snow, the Leopard to Snow upgrade can be buggy (from our support issues) so in terms of low maintenance going forward I would get everything on Snow Leopard working instead of putting off and then potentially having issues in the upgrade. I don't quite know what goes wrong but a few people get crashes on our games after upgrading but if they make a new user all is fine so something left over in the user library can sometimes go wrong but I don't know what. Just my 2 cents worth. Edwin -------------------- |
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September 25th 2009, 10:44 AM
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Official IMG Spambot Greeter Group: Members Posts: 2,525 Joined: June 3 '06 From: Melbourne, Australia Member No.: 8,659 |
Okay, thanks.
Liberator. -------------------- |
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September 25th 2009, 01:42 PM
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Verbal Windbag Group: Members Posts: 4,482 Joined: August 23 '05 From: over there Member No.: 7,719 |
QUOTE(Vulpine @ September 16th 2009, 07:45 PM) I can report that Fallout 1 works perfectly for me. I'm on 10.6.1, with a late 2008 unibody MacBook Pro. In full-screen or windowed mode? I'm coming to believe that I the problems I experienced are basically the same that plague SMAC (lacking support for 256 colour screen modes in SL). -------------------- "We do what we must, because we can."
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 November 3rd 2009, 12:55 PM
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 Fan Group: Members Posts: 16 Joined: August 23 '09 From: Barcelona Member No.: 12,819 |
Neverwinter Nights ot compatible, since its first installation disk error arises because.
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November 3rd 2009, 02:25 PM
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Verbal Windbag Group: Members Posts: 4,482 Joined: August 23 '05 From: over there Member No.: 7,719 |
QUOTE(tomy @ November 3rd 2009, 07:55 PM) Neverwinter Nights ot compatible, since its first installation disk error arises because. Hm, the game itself works (when it's already installed). -------------------- "We do what we must, because we can."
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