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by **MacAttack** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:56 am

Hi guys,

A friend of mine told me about Nexuiz the other day and so i decided to try it(Seeing as its open source and everything). I downloaded it, that was fine. I unzipped it, that went without a hitch. I went into the Nexuiz folder on my desktop and dragged it into my apps folder. I opened the Nexuiz again and looked for the mac .app file. I clicked on Nexuiz-SDL and it switched into full screen mode. The screen stayed balck for a while and didnt show any signs of life. this was a problem. i could see and move my cursor but i couldnt see anything else. Does anyone know what is wrong or what i have done wrong?

PS I am using an iMac G5 1.8Ghz with MacOSX 10.3.9.

by **Urmel** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:00 am

I ain't got no plan about macs, but that sounds like You logged onto a server with a special map who have to be downloaded from somewhere else first.

Did You install the 1.5 or the 1.21?

by **KadaverJack** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:18 am

You didn't get a screen like this:

by any chance?
If you did, try starting Nexuiz with "-basedir /path/to/Nexuiz/data".

If your screen stays completely black, can you start Nexuiz with "-condebug" as parameter and post the logfile (~/.nexuiz/data/qconsole.log on Linux, i think this is also true for MacOS)?

by **MacAttack** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:21 am

No i didnt get a screen like that. Does anyone know how to install it properly on mac cause it doesnt tell u on the website.

by **tChr** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:24 am

If you use 1.5 please not that the startup time can be... extreme

On my Athlon64 3200+ with 1GB ram it takes almost 30 seconds to start. Have you tried just waiting for a while?

by **MacAttack** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:33 am

I have tried waitng a while. My iMac has 1.25Gb of RAM.

by **KadaverJack** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:34 am

MacAttack wrote:No i didnt get a screen like that. Does anyone know how to install it properly on mac cause it doesnt tell u on the website.

Just unzip it and run the Nexuiz-SDL.app... There isn't much you could have done wrong... A common problem for windows users is, that sometimes winzip doesn't create subfolders, but if you have a directory "Nexuiz/data" with a "data<realeasedate>.pk3" in it, you've done everthing right.

by **MacAttack** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:38 am

It finally loaded after about 10 mins of black empty screen. This is a complete pain in the ass.

by **KadaverJack** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:50 am

MacAttack wrote:It finally loaded after about 10 mins of black empty screen. This is a complete pain in the ass.

Sorry to hear that...
What kind of graphics card does your mac have? A quick google search came up with two alternatives: Radeon 9600 or GeforceFX 5200. Both cards a bit slow with Nexuiz but afaik it's possible to play with them if you turn everything down (i got Nexuiz running quite well on a p4 1.8GHz, with 512MB RAM & a Geforce 2MX).

You can try esteel's low effects settings, that should speed things up a bit

http://www.forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?p=90

by **Urmel** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:02 am

GF5200 is running well, also the Radeon 9600 and other low value cards if You don't enable too many effects.

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

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