Does anyone else have a slow playing game--meaning everything moving slowly. It might be my computer, since the same thing happened in Book 1.
I have a 13" Macbook 2.2ghz, 4G ram, 10.6.3. It is 2 years old with shared video, before the new video updates. I played the demo on a much more inferior PC, just before the mac version came out and the game played flawlessly. i expect more from mac's.
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Re: Slow play
Try restarting - I'm playing mine on a similar system (though with 10.5.8 & 2.4 GHz), and I'm not finding it slow.csharp0 wrote:Does anyone else have a slow playing game--meaning everything moving slowly. It might be my computer, since the same thing happened in Book 1.
I have a 13" Macbook 2.2ghz, 4G ram, 10.6.3. It is 2 years old with shared video, before the new video updates. I played the demo on a much more inferior PC, just before the mac version came out and the game played flawlessly. i expect more from mac's.
But sometimes you just need to do a restart to "flush" the system and the memory, so see if that does the trick...
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Re: Slow play
I've been using my Mac G4 10.4 (I think) for beta testing. It was pretty slow in towns and high light sources for Book 1 but book 2 only had mild slow down in forests for some reason. My laptop it went so fast I'd over shot something I was aiming for!
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Re: Slow play
If your Mac is "taking advantage" of intel integrated graphics, that's likely your problem.
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Re: Slow play
Intel would have you believe their graphics chips are good for gaming, when the exact opposite is true.
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yeah, the intel shared video sucks and i've been losing faith in mac's because of their stupid choices. Anyway, restarting my computer and the game helped. now the game plays beautifully. thanks for the advice.
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Re: Slow play
Also, there are issues with memory and video in OS X 10.6.3. I saw some notes that a 10.6.4 release may be imminent to help deal with this, but since the last update I've had to regularly restart my machine, and MS Word and Quicken both make it go really batty with slowdowns.
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Re: Slow play
I found that having anything else running that uses video will really slow the game down. Most other programs can work with the game, but for some reason it slows when disconnecting from the Internet.