[Gilgamesh]

Well just got GH3, first thing I did was download the patch for it. Once I started up the game I went to the options to change the settings.... I could change all the options for the video settings with the exception of the graphics quality which is set to low and grayed out. I'm running the game on a MacPro with the X1900. I also got Boot Camp on it, so for the heck of it I installed it on the Windows side and sure enough that option I could set to High quality. Anybody know what's up with that.. is it a driver issue with the gpu card...

[bobbob]

Ask Aspyr why they didn't implement high quality in the Mac version.

[Cobra]

Hmmm... that is pretty odd, I don't have that problem. It's also the 1st i have heard of it, you may need to submit a support ticket with Aspyr as something is definitely amiss.

[AussieMacGamer]

Cobra, on February 10th 2008, 09:45 PM, said:

Hmmm... that is pretty odd, I don't have that problem. It's also the 1st i have heard of it, you may need to submit a support ticket with Aspyr as something is definitely amiss.

What graphics hardware are the both of you running. i had the excact same problem. maybye you just need a hot popsnizzle computer to run the high setting on Mac OS X.

[Cobra]

I'm using a iMac 24" 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo which has the 7600GT built-in.

[AussieMacGamer]

Cobra, on February 11th 2008, 07:04 AM, said:

I'm using a iMac 24" 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo which has the 7600GT built-in.

there you go. your running a more powerful system than me.

[teflon]

but not a more powerful system than a mac pro with a X1900 in it... not by a long shot. So there is indeed something amiss here.

the only thing I can think of is that there may have been an OGL extension added to 10.5 which wasnt in 10.4 that is required for high quality mode. Other than that I cant really think of anything. Got the 1.1 patch??

[Cobra]

I would say there are only two possibilities then, it could be due to the OS version as teflon pointed out, or a ATi+OS X thing.

[teflon]

well, what OS is everyone running in then?

[calroth]

MacBook Pro, Core Duo 2.16GHz, Radeon X1600 Mobility. Mac OS X 10.5.1.

The only graphics option I'm given is "Low". (I probably wouldn't want anything higher, it's only 30fps even at that setting.)

It won't let me go online either (it works OK on my PC), but that's something I'm just going to hope magically cures itself.

[Janichsan]

calroth, on February 11th 2008, 10:55 AM, said:

MacBook Pro, Core Duo 2.16GHz, Radeon X1600 Mobility. Mac OS X 10.5.1.

The only graphics option I'm given is "Low". (I probably wouldn't want anything higher, it's only 30fps even at that setting.)

Makes sense, since the x1600 is the low end for this game.

The networking issue does not make sense, though. Do you have any firewall up and running?

[AussieMacGamer]

calroth, on February 11th 2008, 08:55 PM, said:

MacBook Pro, Core Duo 2.16GHz, Radeon X1600 Mobility. Mac OS X 10.5.1.

The only graphics option I'm given is "Low". (I probably wouldn't want anything higher, it's only 30fps even at that setting.)

It won't let me go online either (it works OK on my PC), but that's something I'm just going to hope magically cures itself.

i have the excact same hardware

[Cobra]

Well it's not the OS then as I'm also using 10.5.1

Janichsan, on February 11th 2008, 08:10 PM, said:

Makes sense, since the x1600 is the low end for this game.

That may be it.

[teflon]

well, the original issue was with the X1900, and Gilgamesh hasnt got back on which OS version hes running, so it could still be the OS in his instance. Since everyone else is on 10.5.1, and X1600s cant do it while the 7600GT can, Ive quite simply deduced that the X1600 is simply excluded from the option. But that may be completely seperate from any issue with the OS.

[Cobra]

My question is has anyone with an ATi card been able to run the game on high?

[Gilgamesh]

Sorry for not checking in... I had contacted Aspyr's support via email, they had suggested a few things (run Disk Utility, uninstall and re-install 2 times, and set up a new User account and load game thru it), none of these suggestions helped out. They asked me to send them a copy of my System Profile, which I have just gotten around to. At the time I was running 10.5.1, then I updated 10.5.2, but the graphics option still remained set to low. In a way, I wouldn't want to set it to high since the game stutters a lot on some of the larger venues of the game... it just sucks that Vista runs the game a whole lot smoother with everything maxed out, specially since I'd rather be playing the game in OS X, which is where I spend most of my time in... I think it has to do with ATI, the PC side keeps getting a bunch of updates for X1900 which actually improved gameplay a lot on my Mac... on the OS X side... well not much love thus far.

[bobbob]

teflon, on February 11th 2008, 10:14 AM, said:

Ive quite simply deduced that the X1600 is simply excluded from the option. But that may be completely seperate from any issue with the OS.

It doesn't look like a hardware feature is missing, so it's either the OS or the game that is broken.

[GlendaAdams]

bobbob, on February 14th 2008, 01:07 PM, said:

It doesn't look like a hardware feature is missing, so it's either the OS or the game that is broken.

I can't remember off the top of my head this option & video card specfically, but I know we had to disable some options on certain video cards due to instabilities in OpenGL. As Apple updates OpenGL and things become more stable, we're always keeping an eye on things to see if we can enable those options in patches. The Leopard Graphics update with 10.5.2 looks like it has many fixes that will help GL, so we're looking at it now.

Glenda

[Cobra]

This option I believe was added in the 1.1 patch along with a few others but I don't think there is any documentation on them to be honest and I honestly can't see a difference when I change it between high and low, and also don't know what the physics option dose either.

Sounds promising,
I was worried Macs users may of been in the same boat as Linux users for a moment there were if you want to do proper gaming you need an nVIDIA card since the Linux ATi don't fully utilise their video cards.