Compatibility Problem with Macs
by Michael Kirby · in ThinkTanks · 08/12/2003 (2:06 pm) · 4 replies
I noticed MACMAN-FP may have had a similar problem (see Forum Thread: "Game will not start") but how he solved it wasn't listed.
I have two Macs, both hooked up to the interenet via DSL.
The first is an iMac 17" that's a G4, 800 MHz with 768 MB of ram running OS X 10.2.6. On this machine, Think Tanks runs fine.
The other Mac is a G3 bronze keyboard (Lombard) Powerbook, 400 MHz, 384 MB of ram (it also has 1 MB Level 2 cache, ATI Rage LT Pro
8 MB VRAM), also running OS X 10.2.6.
On this machine, starting up Think Tanks brings up a black screen, then a flash of the desktop with a white box with a couple of rows of dashes (--------), followed by a flash of white, then black. After that, nothing until pushing esc to force a quit out of the stalled program.
Could it be that Think Tanks is not compatible with a G3?
Doing a little digging, I did get these from the Console Logs (under system profiler), have no idea what they mean:
(from one try) Aug 12 13:33:14 Dash-Kirbys-Computer /sbin/autodiskmount[187]: disk2s2 hfs no no ThinkTanks1.1 /Volumes/ThinkTanks1.1
(this from another startup try) 2003-08-12 14:14:32.745 loginwindow[348] Could not find image named 'bang'.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Mike
I have two Macs, both hooked up to the interenet via DSL.
The first is an iMac 17" that's a G4, 800 MHz with 768 MB of ram running OS X 10.2.6. On this machine, Think Tanks runs fine.
The other Mac is a G3 bronze keyboard (Lombard) Powerbook, 400 MHz, 384 MB of ram (it also has 1 MB Level 2 cache, ATI Rage LT Pro
8 MB VRAM), also running OS X 10.2.6.
On this machine, starting up Think Tanks brings up a black screen, then a flash of the desktop with a white box with a couple of rows of dashes (--------), followed by a flash of white, then black. After that, nothing until pushing esc to force a quit out of the stalled program.
Could it be that Think Tanks is not compatible with a G3?
Doing a little digging, I did get these from the Console Logs (under system profiler), have no idea what they mean:
(from one try) Aug 12 13:33:14 Dash-Kirbys-Computer /sbin/autodiskmount[187]: disk2s2 hfs no no ThinkTanks1.1 /Volumes/ThinkTanks1.1
(this from another startup try) 2003-08-12 14:14:32.745 loginwindow[348] Could not find image named 'bang'.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Mike
#2
Thanks for the fast response.
Think Tanks has been installed onto the hard drive from the dmg and the dmg was trashed before attempting to start up the game,
The error log is weird; maybe I'll try a couple more launches and check the log to see if anything new gets listed.
(Bang isn't anything related to this computer)
- Mike
08/12/2003 (3:23 pm)
Clark,Thanks for the fast response.
Think Tanks has been installed onto the hard drive from the dmg and the dmg was trashed before attempting to start up the game,
The error log is weird; maybe I'll try a couple more launches and check the log to see if anything new gets listed.
(Bang isn't anything related to this computer)
- Mike
#3
clark
08/12/2003 (4:02 pm)
Hmmm...just looked at the log on my mac after mounting the drive and got similar results (all the "no no" stuff are just normal parameters passed to the disk mounting utility). So that's a red herring. I did notice that I have crash logs for think tanks down below that (the only reason I have those is that this is the dev machine -- no post-release crashes here :). Do you have a crash log? Maybe you can send me the log (support@bravetree.com). BTW, I'm guessing the "bang" line is unrelated to ThinkTanks (any disk mounting activity would appear in that same log).clark
#4
The G3 should be fine, but the Rage Pro may not. If I recall correctly, the Rage Pro may not have actual hardware OpenGL support. At best, it has rudimentary support, but not enough functionality to support the game. I know the Rage 128 works, but I don't know that I've ever tried on a Rage Pro machine on either Mac or Windows (though windows would have slightly better support for the processor...).
d
08/12/2003 (8:30 pm)
Michael - go to the ThinkTanks application, right click and "Show Contents", go into Contents, go into Resources, should be a logfile sitting there. Send that to clark, he'll forward it along to me.The G3 should be fine, but the Rage Pro may not. If I recall correctly, the Rage Pro may not have actual hardware OpenGL support. At best, it has rudimentary support, but not enough functionality to support the game. I know the Rage 128 works, but I don't know that I've ever tried on a Rage Pro machine on either Mac or Windows (though windows would have slightly better support for the processor...).
d
Torque Owner Clark Fagot
You can send us email at support@bravetree.com if you continue to have problems (but hopefully it's just a matter of dragging the folder to your harddrive).
clark