Game unplayable after new Mac version update – Train Fever

Game unplayable after new Mac version update

Brightlands100 — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:35:36 +0000

As the title says. After a Steam auto update to the latest version for my iMac the game is unplayable. The mouse cursor is very slow to move across the screen and often freezes. Zooming in and out is slow and jerky. The game crashes after a couple of minutes and the error message reports ‘A graphics issue’.

The game worked perfectly well before this update. Any advice please?

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Brightlands100 — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:43:47 +0000

Still waiting guys….. I’d appreciate a response from support please. My graphics details are as follows:-

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M:

Chipset Model:NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M

Type:GPU

Bus:PCIe

PCIe Lane Width:x16

VRAM (Total):512 MB

Vendor:NVIDIA (0x10de)

Device ID:0x0fd5

Revision ID:0x00a2

ROM Revision:3707

Displays:

iMac:

Display Type:LCD

Resolution:1920 x 1080

Pixel Depth:32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)

Main Display:Yes

Mirror:Off

Online:Yes

Built-In:Yes

iMac info

Model Name:iMac

Model Identifier:iMac13,1

Processor Name:Intel Core i5

Processor Speed:2.9 GHz

Number of Processors:1

Total Number of Cores:4

L2 Cache (per Core):256 KB

L3 Cache:6 MB

Memory:8 GB

Boot ROM Version:IM131.010A.B05

SMC Version (system):2.9f5

I’ve recently upgraded to Yosemite

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FX2K — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:48:42 +0000

Whilst you wait a dev reply… which I hope you get….what in game graphics settings do you have?
Have you tried (for testing of course) setting everything to its lowest, including textures and colour depth?

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Brightlands100 — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:33:46 +0000

At least someone replies. Thank you!

To be honest I haven’t tried lowering my settings as they have been running well up to now. But it’s a good idea and I will try lowering them. Thanks again.

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Brightlands100 — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:42:22 +0000

Thanks FX2K. I dropped the settings back to low and at least the game is now playable with no crashes. It’s not as smooth as it was though and considering the last update was to fix performance issues it’s done no favours to users on the Mac version. I hope that this can be fixed in a future Mac-specific update.

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FX2K — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:47:57 +0000

For what its worth, I play with low textures/colour, no ambient occlusion and low geometry.. My system is high end PC and handles every AAA game I throw at it with ease… just not Train Fever lol… they still have some work to do in that respect, at least I hope they do.

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Brightlands100 — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:26:48 +0000

This is still a problem. Just played for less than 5 mins with all graphics settings on low and got the frozen screen followed by the software quitting with the graphics error message to send to Apple.

What puzzles me is how some problems on this ‘Support’ forum get a response and others do not. Even if a solution is not immediately available, a simple ‘we’re looking into this’ would be appreciated. But no reply at all makes me very annoyed.

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FX2K — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:12:57 +0000

I might be wrong, but it seems to me like somebody has taken a week off. Mikael hasn’t appeared recently.
/forums/user/mikael/replies/

And Mr Urban doesn’t post much:
/forums/user/urban/replies/

No doubt they would tell you to check you have the latest video drivers installed, but IMO, its much more than just that.

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Brightlands100 — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:34:27 +0000

I think it is more than video drivers. OSX updates the drivers itself and since Yosemite is brand new then I guess that there’s nothing to update. I give up until I see some response or update.

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zahcim — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:26:44 +0000

yep – again – same problem here with 2014 15″ retina mac book max

only steam streaming from my PC game rig in the cellar makes my working day on the mac 🙂

cheers

zahcim