OS X CivIII Trouble-Shooting

[President iGreg]

1. One thing I have recently noticed is that sometimes the population number box on a city will not display its number. It will be a solid color & will usually last several turns, & then the number appears again. Anyone else notice this?

I'm playing Civ III in OS 10.2.5.

2. With the update patch and OS 10.2.5 it has speeded up a bit, although it still could be faster (particularly in the closing of the message boxes which seem to want to stick around for a bit even after you click to close them). Turning Aqua stuff off doesn't effect this.

[dojoboy]

Re: OS X CivIII Trouble-Shooting

Originally posted by President iGreg
1. One thing I have recently noticed is that sometimes the population number box on a city will not display its number. It will be a solid color & will usually last several turns, & then the number appears again. Anyone else notice this?

This simply may be that your city's population is declining. When a city has a food shortage, the population # box becomes a solid color (you can faintly see the current population # however).

I'm not experiencing any slowness under 10.2.5 at the moment. You did say you had quartz rendering turned off?

[President iGreg]

Ah, that might explain the solid colored boxes.

MacSoft Tech support wasn't any help. They wanted me to try playing the game in Mac OS 9 and tell them what I see, yada yada yada. I don't use 9 anymore.

The slowness in message box clossing is intermittant. Like I said however, overall since going to OS 10.2.5 the game is faster than before.

[Agathon]

Have you turned off Quartz text smoothing? That tends to speed things up.

[President iGreg]

I've tried that. See my first post. I called it Aqua by mistake. I meant Quartz. OS 10.2.6 has improved game-play speed quite a bit. However, some of those message boxes do like to hang a bit. Quartz on or off has no effect.

P.S. Don't ask me why, but the disappearing population number issue I had has apparently vanished. Strange. The numbers are now always visible.

[Startaff]

Don't know if this issue's been dealt with before but...
When CivIII is on I have no way to get at the finder, dock or whatever else.
It's running on a brand new iBook 900MHz with 10.2.4

[CivPatriot]

have you tried CMD-Tab to switch between your active applications?( i think its CMD(the one with the apple logo on it)-Tab, not at my mac right now so i forgot). but that should allow you to switch between your active applications(and bring up the dock, though i'm not sure how well it will look, sometimes programs that go full screen do not like the dock all of a sudden popin up, which is what CMD-tab will do).

[FlameFlash]

Originally posted by Startaff
Don't know if this issue's been dealt with before but...
When CivIII is on I have no way to get at the finder, dock or whatever else.
It's running on a brand new iBook 900MHz with 10.2.4

Hide it... that's what I always do.

Just hit command-H and then from there you can leave it in its little window or shrink it to the dock.

[Panag]

hi ,

http://www.atarisupport.com/faq/civ3_mac.asp

have a nice day

[Startaff]

Originally posted by FlameFlash


Hide it... that's what I always do.

Just hit command-H and then from there you can leave it in its little window or shrink it to the dock.

Correct answer!

"Hide" does work.
"Command+Tab" does not (differently from usual programs)