OSX Performance beta 54497

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by bhorrock, October 1, 2013.

  1. bhorrock

    bhorrock New Member

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    Wanted to share some performance notes

    After load, first game startup with a 2 planet custom system and AI : About 7 minutes to start position.
    Some laggy but usable in game (for a beta)

    Second game in same instance: Pretty unusable. huge lag. zooming problems. wouldn't exit. Force killed game.

    Fair number of the following errors in the log
    [00:26:02.923] ERROR Could not create skeleton control of type: [procedural_aim] for unit: [Spinner]

    [23:12:48.623] INFO GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
    [23:12:48.623] INFO GL_RENDERER: AMD Radeon HD 6490M OpenGL Engine
    [23:12:48.623] INFO GL_VERSION: 2.1 ATI-1.8.19
    [23:12:48.623] INFO GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 1.20
    [23:12:48.623] INFO Gamma correct pipeline enabled.
    [23:12:48.712] ERROR Error compiling shader /shaders/prelight_material_batch_index.vs:

    Hope that helps.
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  3. cyborgdelta1

    cyborgdelta1 New Member

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    Just out of curiosity why would steam cause this problem wont the manual download be the same as the steam download?
  4. tulppaani

    tulppaani New Member

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    For me the graphics don't show at all when I start a game. The screen is completely black and only the resource bar and the player names are visible. And I'm not running the steam version.
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    They are not the same, unfortunately.
    Steam version have Steamworks SDK linked and on Windows it's just kills performance of many people and make loading time 50 times longer.
    I have completely no idea why it's happen, but this is fact and probably this as well affect OS X users.
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    SXX Post Master General

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    Please if you on Windows upload your DxDiag.txt
  7. bhorrock

    bhorrock New Member

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    Then one question... is game looks for you like that:
    https://forums.uberent.com/threads/should-it-look-like-this-mac-osx.52229/
    It's known problem with black textures on OS X with AMD graphics, but is it looks like that for you?

    If not, can you please make screenshot and upload it here?
  9. tulppaani

    tulppaani New Member

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    I'm a macintosh user.
  10. bhorrock

    bhorrock New Member

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    Initial impression is that startup on beta 54574 is much better. Seems more responsive too.

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