Problems with Mac
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 1:22 pm
Hey guys,
first thanks for a great, great game! Since there are still some flaws, especially with the mac version, here's what I've experienced so far:
Full-Screen Problems
As you may know, MacOS X handles Full-Screen applications as a separate "window" so you may still have access to all menus and corners. Since I get this right, Anomaly Warzone 2 starts as a windowed application, making use of the "Full-Screen" OS X Feature? (fullscreenapp.jpg)
Problem now is, that "Active Corners" and the taskbar are not disabled, so if I'm moving around with the mouse and hit my lower right corner, the screen turns off or I'll start the "Mission Control" when scrolling top-left corner. Also, while hitting the top of the screen, my Taskbar shows up, allowing me to "window" the game (taskbar.jpg)
This not only disrupts the gameplay every time I hit the top or any corners, it also seems to influence the performance, since popping-up the taskbar drops the FPS immediatelly.
Performance Issues:
I don't know if it's because of how you handle the fullscreen, but the performance on my Mac is very, very poor, even though the settings are on "low" already. Since I can only choose between "high, medium, low" quality, there's not much to experiment with to find out, what actually kills the performance, but running the game via Bootcamp in Windows on the same Mac, I can play on "high" almost smoothly (I play on medium, though).
Mac Specs:
27" iMac, late 2009
Processor 2,8 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB
Software OS X 10.8.3 (latest)
first thanks for a great, great game! Since there are still some flaws, especially with the mac version, here's what I've experienced so far:
Full-Screen Problems
As you may know, MacOS X handles Full-Screen applications as a separate "window" so you may still have access to all menus and corners. Since I get this right, Anomaly Warzone 2 starts as a windowed application, making use of the "Full-Screen" OS X Feature? (fullscreenapp.jpg)
Problem now is, that "Active Corners" and the taskbar are not disabled, so if I'm moving around with the mouse and hit my lower right corner, the screen turns off or I'll start the "Mission Control" when scrolling top-left corner. Also, while hitting the top of the screen, my Taskbar shows up, allowing me to "window" the game (taskbar.jpg)
This not only disrupts the gameplay every time I hit the top or any corners, it also seems to influence the performance, since popping-up the taskbar drops the FPS immediatelly.
Performance Issues:
I don't know if it's because of how you handle the fullscreen, but the performance on my Mac is very, very poor, even though the settings are on "low" already. Since I can only choose between "high, medium, low" quality, there's not much to experiment with to find out, what actually kills the performance, but running the game via Bootcamp in Windows on the same Mac, I can play on "high" almost smoothly (I play on medium, though).
Mac Specs:
27" iMac, late 2009
Processor 2,8 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB
Software OS X 10.8.3 (latest)