OSX users - better hold out on Snow Leopard for now

[merlijn]

Apples new OS has hit most stores by now, and it claims to give a large performance boost to your Mac. When it comes down to Nexuiz (or OpenGL in general), performance is much worse than in 10.5.8. Phoronix did a nice little benchmarking test, where Nexuiz' FPS was halved by upgrading to 10.6.

Let's hope Apple fixes these problems soon with an updated build, but if you like to game on your Mac - you might want to postpone the upgrade until that fix is out.

On my old macbook I also ran the bench1.dem in Snow Leopard / latest Nexuiz SVN and got a grand total of 3.33 FPS.

[MC SE7EN]

I was gonna ask about that. I really want SL, but I don't want Nexuiz to slow to a screeching halt...that sucks. I may get it anyway and just wait for them to start playing nice....

[Yoda almighty]

I am not going to be able to get it anyway. I am probably just going to get it when I get my computer for college in a year. hopefully all the kinks will be worked out by then.

although so far, this is the only problem I have heard about so far. most of the people

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

You could create a small Linux partition for just Nexuiz.

[MC SE7EN]

Oh my gosh. I could... that is totally a possibility. I wouldn't mind being able to use the linux Makefile on the SVN either...hm...

EDIT: I'm downloading Ubuntu now. My friend uses it and he loves it, so I figure it can't be that awful. I may create a Linux partition if I upgrade to SL.

I'm still kind of iffy about it though...

[Lee_Stricklin]

Oh my gosh. I could... that is totally a possibility. I wouldn't mind being able to use the linux Makefile on the SVN either...hm...

EDIT: I'm downloading Ubuntu now. My friend uses it and he loves it, so I figure it can't be that awful. I may create a Linux partition if I upgrade to SL.

I'm still kind of iffy about it though...

Ubuntu is a pretty noob-friendly operating system, the thing that makes it hard to use at first is the fact that it's DIFFERENT. I started using Ubuntu about a year ago and now I don't think I'll ever go back to Windows and I recently loaded it up on my mom's mini tower and she loves it. It's also possible to get most Windows and DOS programs to run on it using tools like WINE, DOSBox, and PlayOnLinux.

[MC SE7EN]

Well, I successfully dual-booted Ubuntu and Leopard! I don't like Ubuntu that much though. My trackpad speed sucks and if I change it, it changes on my OS X side as well. My mouse works fine though. Finally got the wifi working... at school, not my house though... hopefully it'll start working there too.

Only one issue: I can't start Nexuiz. Which Linux file am I supposed to run? I tried them all and it said there was no application for executable files... Help?

[halogene]

there should be a file called "nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh" and a file called "nexuiz-linux-glx.sh" directly in your Nexuiz folder that you extracted. Double-clicking on them should prompt you if you want to execute it. If it is not executable, you will have to set the executable flag for the files. But I think on my installation it worked out of the box...

Edit: you might try running them from the terminal to check for error messages. Just open the terminal, navigate to the installation folder and enter

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./nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh

...or of course the glx one, if that is running faster for you.

I hope this helps?

[MC SE7EN]

there should be a file called "nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh" and a file called "nexuiz-linux-glx.sh" directly in your Nexuiz folder that you extracted. Double-clicking on them should prompt you if you want to execute it. If it is not executable, you will have to set the executable flag for the files. But I think on my installation it worked out of the box...

Edit: you might try running them from the terminal to check for error messages. Just open the terminal, navigate to the installation folder and enter

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./nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh

...or of course the glx one, if that is running faster for you.

I hope this helps?

Hm, I think I tried both of those two, but I'll try again. Thanks.

[halogene]

Anyway, that's how I start Nexuiz on my Ubuntu. Ok, I set up a starter on the desktop for convenience, but it runs the "nexuiz-linux-sdl.sh" file... I'd be surprised if it doesn't run on your system. If it doesn't run at all maybe run them from terminal as suggested and post the error message that should be there.