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Black sky on Mac

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:52 pm
by Gotallofthatone
Hello,
Does anyone know how to fix a glitch with joining games that have dynamic skies.
Everytime I play in one my sky is always black.

Re: Black sky on Mac

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:53 pm
by terbal
play during the day

Re: Black sky on Mac

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 8:32 am
by Mwh65
Are you referring to one of our tournies ?

Re: Black sky on Mac

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 3:05 pm
by Gotallofthatone
It's every game that has dynamic sky pre-set in the game, including all the rounds that PGLS sets up in the tournies.

Re: Black sky on Mac

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 3:20 pm
by Mwh65
I seem to recall Mike (MiMiC) mentioning this previously regarding MAC's causing this.

I will get him to reply here.

Re: Black sky on Mac

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 4:02 pm
by MiMiC
Hi,

I am trying to chase down some information on whether this is a problem which the Mac beta testers are aware of and of any fix or reasoning behind it.

I did search on Perfect Parallel's forum on the subject, and found one or two reports. Elsewhere, Andrew Jones of PP raised the possibility that it may be memory related.

http://www.perfectparallel.com/topic/2434-black-skies/

Is it possible to give us the specs of your machine and hopefully I will have some more solid input to give once I hear back from a couple of messages I have sent out to those who should be 'in the know'.

Mike

Re: Black sky on Mac

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 4:51 pm
by Gotallofthatone
Hi Mike,

I've uploaded a screen shot of my computer specs. Hopefully something can be determined by the information listed.

Thank you for your help,
Wayne
Screen Shot 2016-11-16 at 10.47.18 AM.png

Re: Black sky on Mac

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 9:25 pm
by MiMiC
Hi Wayne,

Something I have heard from someone who had the same issue a year ago....

Try switching the control for pause render from what you have at present to whatever it is not. That seemed to be the issue which sorted it out for them.


Mike

Re: Black sky on Mac

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2016 1:06 pm
by MiMiC
Hi Wayne,

Thanks for the specs. Looking at that card, I see it has a limit of 512mb of onboard memory. I wonder if that could be at the heart of the problem, with PG being graphically intensive, and a 'skybox' being a large aspect of the overall load which would be amongst those last to be loaded into memory.


Mike

Re: Black sky on Mac

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2016 1:11 pm
by terbal
wayne dosent get a black sky when we set up a game thats not a tourney game. is it the dynamic sky?