Calling All Mac Users! Help us Fix Bugs!

Holy necro batman, you do realize when this is from, right?

Yeah, January, but when I searched the forum it seemed to be the only thread mentioning slow rendering on the Mac platform.

Just wanted to make sure that people realise that performance still sucks 7 months on. As I said, the version I downloaded from Steam last week was unplayable. I just got an update from Steam which is still unplayable.

If you want to give useful feedback you need at least say what OS X version you using because problem on your screenshot likely related to some old drivers (OS X drivers only upgraded with OS).

And yeah GT 8800 it's just not that powerful GPU for sure so you need to set everything to low and try to run game on some moons or metal planets first.

I'm running OSX 10.9.4.

Not sure what you mean about the GeForce 8800 being 'not that powerful' ... I can run all other Steam games - Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Day of Defeat, Counterstrike, Portal 2, Borderlands 2, Driver SanFrancisco in native 1900 x 1200 mode with no noticeable lag.

Like I said earlier, the GPU cooling fan isn't spinning up at all (which it does on all the above games) - its like the the game is using a software driver instead of the GPU.

Have attached both a process sample and file list for the Planetary Annhilation process.

To confirm, have tried with graphics settings set to bare minimum on everything, I'm still not getting most things rendered and the UI barely responding.

All those games aren't anywhere GPU-intensive as PA.

Though glitches you have are clearly not good thing so would be interesting to see if there anyone else have same problem on Mac.

I just downloaded PA as of about an hour ago~ And sadly cant launch the game....

I am on an 10.7.2 Mac
Radeon 6770m GPU
2.5GHz Intel I7

I'm Updating to 10.9.2 as I write this, but I thought it should be know that there is likely a issue

EDIT 2: This seems to have been fixed by updating to 10.9.2

For one, if you have integrated and dedicated, disable your integrated. Sometime the game won't know any better than to not use the dedicated. That would explain no fan spinup. And if you have amd integrated, the black textures.

Other than that, still post your hardware. Your hardware specs through the mac hardware specs capture thingy should support your claim to have newer drivers and such, it only benefits you to lay em on us.

Mac players can't update drivers. Updates only distributed with OS X upgrades.
So Mac model (+year) and OS X version it's usually enough info for troubleshooting.