Re: [Enigma-devel] Re: Mac performance problems on some levels

[Raoul]

Hi Sidney,
>>
>> After finishing 1.01 without any urgent error reports being posted I
>> would like to address some remaining tasks. We did receive several
>> reports concerning serious performance problems with a few levels that
>> seem to be Mac specific.
>>
>> The most common level is "Bright Dots" (Enigma III#38). Please read
>>
>> http://www.mag-heut.net/blackball/index.php?act=ST&f=9&t=703
>>
>> Taztunes did report the same problem for "Deserted Island":
>>
>> http://www.mag-heut.net/blackball/index.php?act=ST&f=14&t=775
> Sorry for the delay in getting a PPC trunk build to test with, but I
> have it now.
>
> Results with Bright Dots:
>
> Runs fine on my 2GHz Intel Core Duo MacBook with 2GB RAM running MacOS
> 10.4.9 in all three versions of Enigma, 1.0, 1.01 and trunk
:-)
> Note in that thread about this, the last comment was from someone with
> an Intel Mac with twice the cpu power and twice the memory as mine who
> still had the slowdown problem. So raw power or Intel platform is not
> the issue.
>
> Enigma 1.0 and 1.01 were unusably slow on a 1.25GHz PPC eMac with
> 768KB RAM
>
> The good news is that Enigma trunk ran perfectly fast on it.
>
> I could not find Deserted Island to test and I can't seem to access the
> forum message about it:
>
> "The error returned was:
>
> You do not have permission to view this topic"
If you really can't download if from here:
http://www.mag-heut.net/blackball/index.php?act=ST&f=14&t=775&s=681c6496684476f0297d3526e9b62ac7
you should speak with illmind about your rights in the forum ...

I attached a version. But it's nothing really special, just another
level with many actors,
but on different screens, most of them never interacting with each other.
You could also play "Mountain Climbing" in 1.01.


-- Raoul

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