Will not run on my iMac.

[esteel]

I do not think my tweaks speedup the startup of nexuiz.. Sounds like some issue with compiling the shaders to me. Willis said something about a fix for this in 1.5.1. I myself never had problems with a long startup time so i have no idea if this does indeed help.

I think there are still some issues with the current 1.5.1 release candidate but you might try to download it and see if it does start faster then the current 1.5 version. It is also interesting to get a mac user to test this. But please notice its a release candidate some things might be broken (please report them here). And you will also NOT be able to join the online servers because of the version check. But a quick local try with 'instant action' or 'create game' should work fine..

Here you can download it:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=183317

[KadaverJack]

BTW did anybody else but /me notice that loading takes longer the bigger the RAM is ?

I haven't tested it (and i'm to lazy to remove half of my RAM just to test that ), but the loading times in 1.5.1 will nbe significantly better
I tested it yesterday: 1.5 needed 27sec to start, the 1.5.1 (svn build) needed 17 seconds.

[MacAttack]

The gfx card is a Radeon i think its 64MB.

[tChr]

The gfx card is a Radeon i think its 64MB.

It should be perfectly capable of running the game, but you might want to turn off some of the effects, like bloom, particles and Real-Time lights.

However this should not affect the loading time, and 10 minutes is.. well.. a lil much. Do you have lots of other stuff running at the same time? If you have nothing else running its a lil weird that it takes this long to load. Is it possivble for you to download an older version like 1.2.1 and try that? or the newest version (in development) as previously mentioned.

[MacAttack]

actually make that the geforce card cause the ati is in the new model.

[tChr]

actually make that the geforce card cause the ati is in the new model.

What I said still applies

[obi_wan]

nexuiz is running pretty fast on my 2 macs. (about 15 seconds) :
- G4 bi-1,42 // ATI Radeon 9000 pro 64Mo // 1Go RAM // osx 10.4.5
- G5 bi-2,7 // ATI Radeon 9650 256Mo // 2Go RAM // osx 10.4.5

The G4 shouldn't be more powerful than the iMac G5 1,8GHz...

Perhaps Panther is a problem ?
You could try running Tiger on a firewire disk... (means you've got a friend who owns tiger, and an empty external firewire drive...)

[MacAttack]

I might try running it on my brothers Powerbook G4 which has tiger.

[esteel]

Please do not forget to tell us about the results.. Might help in doing better