I've searched these forums to see if anyone's had any success in running this game under "X" (I've got V 10.0.3) and most people have never been able to, and a few people always have been able too, I amstill no closer to sloving this mystery.
Acording to the read me that comes with the game, the OSX (Beta) version of the game varies form the Classic app in only one way, it does not use drawsprocket, as it was not available in the "PB" although it is now present in current versions of OSX (incl mine).
This is bourne out by the fact that when I try and run OSX Beta 4x4 a window appears on screen (white with a v/small black arrow in the top left ) I think this is because 4x4EvoOSXBeta (deap breath!) does not use Draw sprocket and so cannot switch screen resoloutions, and then after a second or two, crashes, or more to the point gets closed down by "X" for crashing (I wish my memory was as protected as X's, then I would't have to have my name written in my under keks/briefs/graments/pants to you yanks, in BIG letters).
The strange or not so strange thing is if I run the normal 4x4 app in OSX, the game goes through the intro pages, Graphics selection screen, & Quicktime movie perfectly, after this it briefly switches back to the desktop, then goes back to the game, which present sme with a blank, black screen, although I can hear the ingame music, and if I move my mouse around I can hear it "selecting different options on the screen, the same as I can if I press enter, so the games running, sort of, extremly badly anyway...
I really hope someone puts out a patch to get this game to work with the retail version of OSX, maybe for the version that will be installed as of MWNY, does anyone else agree with me?
If they could slap some extra tracks and trucks on a CD Iwould DEFFINTELY buy it, and I guess I'm not the only one, are you listening Macsoft!
This game is far to young & good to fade away if I wwas Macsoft I would bundle the above with the full version and rerelease it, this games got a lot more mileage in it (the PC versions just got a GeForce 3 patch!) although I don't actually know if Macsoft has obtained the rights to 4x4 along with the other God games (might not even be Macsoft it could be Macplay as I always get/the two confused, anyhow I hope someones got some tips, and yes I have tried the allow Frame Buffer thingy, unfortunatly.
Does anyone else agree with me & want to see this game continue, I would not say it's an AMAZING game, but for people who like & miss driving games on the Mac it is a GOOD game IMOSHO!
P.S I've been using OSX loads now I have it installed on my new iBook, and at times i's a little sluggish, but you don't know HOW much faster it seems than when I installed it on my Rev C strawberry blob, GODI LUV THIS OS, & it's just going to get better & better!!!.
Anyway one last thing I want to mention is that I want to get 4x4 working as after a lot of tinkering Q3A came to life in X, and it plaays great, so I want to do the same with 4x4.
Right I'm off to submerge my finger tips in ice cold water for a couple of hours, see ya!
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