Freezing OSX Lion

[112wicked112]

Hey all,

I have a 2011 Macbook air and armagetron freezes up on me randomly. I'll be playing a game nine then it will freeze for 10 seconds and then for the next minute ii plays like I have 99999999 ping when in fact my ping is <90.

The laptop is running osx Lion and the graphics card is an integrated intel HD3000. The processor is a core i7 1.8ghz and all other games run smoothly with no freezing or anything.

What should i do to fix arma ?

Edit: This is using the newest version of arms for mac.

[Z-Man]

Freezes like that could be due to simple overload; our strict use of old style, shaderless, single textured OpenGL is not anything modern GPUs are optimized for. What FPS do you get, approximately? If it's > 100, you'll want to enable VSync somewhere in the graphics driver options, that will bring it down to a sensible rate that is less stressful for your hardware.

[112wicked112]

hmm... good point!

I get 350+ fps

There isn't a way to control the graphics options in OSX Lion though for the Intel HD3000.

Sometimes it even freezes on the menu


I'll try and record it to catch it

[Z-Man]

I'll try and record it to catch it

That won't be of much use, I'm afraid. It's clearly a hardware related problem, all the recording is going to show is that yep, there's a freeze.

You could try one of dlh'\s recent trunk builds, they offer the option to control the VSync behavior from within the game.

[Phytotron]

In order to adjust graphics settings for my card (ATI Radeon 9600), I had go download a separate, standalone utility. Might there be something similar for that Intel?

[Jonathan]

I believe ATI offered the only such utility. An in-game switch shouldn't behave differently, though.

[Phytotron]

Well, that's lame. The impression I've gotten is that Windows has a built-in way to configure the graphics card settings, is that right? Strange that Macs wouldn't, especially now that they have the Intels, and Intel won't release a utility. It could fit in the "Displays" system preferences. Oh well.

[Z-Man]

It's not builtin on Windows, it just so happens that every major manufacturer offers the setting in their advanced display configuration.

[112wicked112]

I'll try and record it to catch it

That won't be of much use, I'm afraid. It's clearly a hardware related problem, all the recording is going to show is that yep, there's a freeze.

You could try one of dlh'\s recent trunk builds, they offer the option to control the VSync behavior from within the game.

Ok, where can I find the setting in these trunk builds? and where are they located?

[Z-Man]

For Mac, they are here: http://generalconsumption.org/armagetronad/download
The last one is mirrored here: https://launchpad.net/armagetronad/+mil ... -universal

The setting is in System Settings/Display Settings/Screen Mode and called VSync. Put it to "Wait".