![]() ![]() Since that game offers no form of autosave, I’ve lost several hours gameplay already, just in the first week that I’ve been playing it. Of those that don’t, that I’ve managed to escape from so far, the spindump profile indicates deadlocks in the AI code. Sometimes these hangs are so hard they require a hard reset of the entire computer. Ugh.Įven once you get it running, you’re then faced with periodic hangs. Turns out it is allergic to Perian – a Quicktime plug-in providing playback support for a variety of esoteric audio & video formats – and said plug-in must be uninstalled in order for it to run. Once again we get the crash-on-launch mini-game as soon as it’s installed. Please draw a schematic diagram indicating how the hell any of this makes any sense.Īnd the latest crashtastic game I’ve come upon is Company of Heroes. That’s right, any time I want to race around the virtual streets of San Francisco in a crappy 70’s muscle car, I have to not only screw with my system-wide language settings, but disconnect my graphics tablet. Even if you can get it to launch at all, it will then not accept any input of any kind while you have a graphics tablet plugged in. The fun doesn’t stop there for Driver: San Francisco, oh no. How the hell did they ship a game that won’t even launch if you dare not speak American English as your preferred language? It’s especially bizarre when you consider that Ubisoft, the publisher of Driver: San Francisco, is headquartered in France. Both these games will crash at launch if you have anything other than “English” as your first language in System Preferences. Take Driver: San Francisco and Rage, for example. ![]() Unfortunately, performance appears to have come at the cost of reliability. For example, it’s rare now that I run a game at less than native resolution, with other graphics settings at or near their maximums, on my 27″ iMac. DRIVER SAN FRANCISCO AUTOSAVE MACInterestingly, this seems to be less of an issue as of the last couple of years – whether because the games are being optimised better or Mac hardware is just better able to keep up with them. DRIVER SAN FRANCISCO AUTOSAVE WINDOWSPorts from Windows versions would often run significantly slower for no apparent reason. The age-old sore point of Mac gaming has been performance. ![]()
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