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EricTheRed
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Sep 2, 2008, 11:27 AM
 
Over the weekend I tripped over Baulder's Gate II in my closet and installed it onto my Mac Pro to see if it still worked. The game still played and was every bit as slow as I remember but sadly, now my Mac Pro is also slow. I do I "de-game" my Mac Pro and return to speedy computing?

FWIW, the game used the old VISE installer.
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Sep 2, 2008, 03:09 PM
 
Any new/unusual processes running?
     
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Sep 2, 2008, 05:17 PM
 
I didn't see anything new running in the activity monitor. At a loss about where to perform an exorcism, I reinstalled Leopard, restored from time machine downloaded the 560MB Leopard update (!) and I'm back up and running. Ordered a new 1TB HDD since I also discovered that my backup disk is trying to shell. I should probably start up as a single user and optimize everything now as well.

Anyway, I was at a loss at how to "de-game" my box without going to the jugular.
     
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Sep 2, 2008, 07:48 PM
 
You probably started running Rosetta

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Sep 2, 2008, 10:49 PM
 
Originally Posted by - - e r i k - - View Post
You probably started running Rosetta
As a matter of fact i do have Rosetta Stone. Is there is known problem?
     
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Sep 2, 2008, 11:57 PM
 
Originally Posted by EricTheRed View Post
As a matter of fact i do have Rosetta Stone. Is there is known problem?
No, Rosetta is the emulation layer that allows PPC applications to run on Intel Macs. It is known to suck up a lot of memory.

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Sep 3, 2008, 04:42 AM
 
Originally Posted by EricTheRed View Post
Over the weekend I tripped over Baulder's Gate II in my closet and installed it onto my Mac Pro to see if it still worked. The game still played and was every bit as slow as I remember but sadly, now my Mac Pro is also slow. I do I "de-game" my Mac Pro and return to speedy computing?

FWIW, the game used the old VISE installer.
Hmmm... it does not make sense thought that your mac would be slow even after closing, as Rosetta will only run when the application is running.

What are the specs of your Mac Pro - BTW?
     
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Sep 3, 2008, 01:57 PM
 
I thought I had the problem fixed when I did a fresh install of Leopard. I was wrong. And the problem continues. Something is using a pile of CPU cycles.

The specs of my Mac Pro are

Two dual-core Intel Xeon running at 3.0, 6GB RAM, X1900XT video card, 7300GT video card, 2x DVD burners, 3x internal 500GB HDD with a 1TB internal HDD on order.
     
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Sep 3, 2008, 02:29 PM
 
Can you do a screenshot of Activity Monitor with the processes sorted by CPU usage?
     
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Sep 3, 2008, 02:42 PM
 
Make sure you have all processes selected at the top of the window and arrange the processes by CPU.
     
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Sep 14, 2008, 03:43 AM
 
Window manager is chewing up clock cycles.
     
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Sep 21, 2008, 03:13 PM
 
Baldur's Gate is a PPC game, is it not? So you will have to run it in Rosetta emulation. Since it's only 2D it can't be that slow, I think...

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