Mac OS X Snow Leopard

[Vladimir Dunner]

I recently upgraded to OS X Snow Leopard and downloaded the most recent version of Viewer 2. The login screen is fragmented and frozen, including the login boxes. The system requires a Force Quit to close it. I would be grateful for helpful advice.

[Nya Raymaker]

first: for some reason I see your post twice, you might want to check on that

and second: I think this is some explanation, though no help to you: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-21121

[Katarina Malthus]

Yeah, I don't bother trying to play any games on my Macs while running OS X. Even with similar hardware and the same video hardware, driver support is iffy and the performance just isn't there. As far as I'm concerned, buying a copy of Win 7 is part of the cost of owning a Mac.

[Nemurimasu Neiro]

That bug report is related to bugs in an old OS update, and they seemed to always cause crashes, not hangs.

[Nemurimasu Neiro]

Not true. OS X runs everything just fine for me. I have more trouble with Windows bugs when I try to run Windows-only stuff than I do running Mac stuff.

[Belladonna Doune]

I'm running Phoenix on my MacBook Pro w/ Snow Leopard and having no problems other than the occasional crash on a high lag sim.

[Vladimir Dunner]

Thank you for your replies. I installed the Beta Viewer and SL is functioning properly.

[JPatrick Maltese]

Go Back to OSX 10.5.8; No hangs, freezes, crashes or Viewer 2! NO Problems!

[Trinity Travesty]

Hi Vladmir,

I am using Phoenix on a very new Macbook Pro and not having too many issues - it does overheat a lot and screen can freeze sometimes, causing a force quit by me but in general its pretty cool and I prefer it over windows XP on my old laptop.  Maybe give Phoenix a shot?

[Vladimir Dunner]

I am running OS 10.6.5 on an iMac 24 and the Beta Viewer looks like it is functioning properly.

[Vladimir Dunner]

Thank you, Belladonna. If I have further trouble, I will try Phoenix.

[Vladimir Dunner]

Thank you Nya, I did indeed post it twice by error. And whatever was in the way under Viewer 2 has now been resolved by the Beta viewer.

[Patio Plasma]

I'm running a 4 year old Mac Book Pro 2.33 GHz intel machine with OS 10.6.5 Snow Leopard using viewer 2.4 I'm having no problems at all with SL.

Except that system 10.6 uses the new quicktime 10.0 as a default , and quicktime 10.0 does not work with SL streaming media. I'm still trying to find out how to get the new OS 10.6 to use the old Quicktime 7 when running SL.

I also suggest installing SMC Fan Control which will allow you to turn up the internal cooling fans on the MAC to full seed while running SL so you don't cook your machine, I also use a fan-cooled pad under my machine.

Keep cool.

[Katarina Malthus]

My experiences playing games under OS X say otherwise. Rather blasé, defensive reply. Then again, I run bootcamp as opposed to parallels, so I suppose that probably accounts for a lot of the conflicts you have that I don't. Driver support has been unquestionably lax since they started disallowing 3rd party drivers under the Mac OSes, there's no questioning that either. I see a ton of difference in game performance between the systems I have running GTX 285s under windows and under OS X, so that's true as well.

I think you answered what you wanted me to say, as opposed to what I actually did.

[Vladimir Dunner]

Thank you Patio. Your information on Quicktime and SMC Fan Control is valuable for future reference.