OS X troubles
 

I am having trouble running the demo on an Apple computer. I run the application, the screen goes black for a second, and then it cuts right back to my desktop. My laptop is no powerhouse, but I wasn't expecting to get cut short this early. I can run Warcraft III on max settings and was hoping to at least run this game on minimum settings. What's up?

Specs:
OS X 10.4.8
1.2 GHz
256MB RAM
iBook G4

Re: OS X troubles
 

Can't say what's wrong without some more info. Try running it from the terminal and see what it says. Start Dominions 3 with this command for max debug output (-dd = exrta debug info):

Dominons3.app/Contents/MacOS/dom3 -dd

Maybe I got something wrong there, but I'm sure you can correct my typos.

Re: OS X troubles
 

Thanks for the -dd argument. Here's the output I got after the program launched and then immediately shut down:

-------------------------
----- DOMINIONS ---------
-------------------------

Version version 3.00 (demo) (300)dbglevel 2 m68k_endian
datapath='.'
confpath='/Users/Mysterio/dominions3'
savepath='/Users/Mysterio/dominions3/savedgames'
modpath='/Users/Mysterio/dominions3/mods'
temppath='/tmp/dominions3_26342'
-- InitGLStuff --
Init OpenGL extensions (Extensions are disabled)
Renderer (ATI Radeon 9200 OpenGL Engine)
Vendor (ATI Technologies Inc.)
Version (1.3 ATI-1.4.18)
supported_ARB_vertex_buffer_object = 0
supported_ARB_multitexture = 0
supported_EXT_texture_env_combine = 0
supported_SGIS_generate_mipmap = 0
supported_ARB_texture_compression = 0
supported_GLX_SGI_swap_control = 0
domdata_path = .
Max texture size = 2048
CreateTexture ./guiborder2.tga alpha 6
N?got gick fel!
myloadmalloc: can't open ./guiborder2.tga
N?got gick fel!
myloadmalloc: can't open ./guiborder2.tga
flushopengl
mem ok
DeinitPrint
Abort trap

Re: OS X troubles
 

Looks like it can't find guiborder2.tga

Doing a "ls Dominons3.app/Contents/Resources/*.tga" should show you that file or something is wrong. Maybe you started it from the wrong directory? You can't start it with "./dom3".

Re: OS X troubles
 

ls Dominions\ 3\ demo.app/Contents/Resources/*.tga

Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/background1.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/dustsky1.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/expl_white.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/guibar.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/guiborder1.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/guiborder2.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/guiborderthin.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/guihbar.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/guihead.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/mapbg.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/poisonsky1.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/skybox1.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/tile.tga



As you can see, I think everything is there...

Re: OS X troubles
 

bump

Other specs can be found here:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2123

Why, O, why won't it run at all?

Re: OS X troubles
 

Are you running out of memory?

Re: OS X troubles
 

That's what I first thought, but running the game through the terminal gives a weird message at the end:

CreateTexture ./guiborder2.tga alpha 6
N?got gick fel!
myloadmalloc: can't open ./guiborder2.tga
N?got gick fel!
myloadmalloc: can't open ./guiborder2.tga
flushopengl
mem ok
DeinitPrint
Abort trap

Something wrong with my comp and *.tga files?

Re: OS X troubles
 

Write this at the terminal and post the result.

ls

ls Dominons3.app/Contents/Resources/

Edit: oops, didn't see that you had already posted that.

Re: OS X troubles
 

Here are a few things I would try:

Run Software Update and update any OS items that might need updating.

Turn off any virus or spyware software you might have running in the background.

Uninstall and reinstall Dominions 3.

Hope one of these helps http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif