Recent content by Brad Oliver

Right, that has the Nvidia 8600 in it, so it doesn't shock me.

Wait, a G5 iMac with a Radeon 2600? Do you mean an Intel iMac?

Maybe so, but the only extant leaderhead problem *now* is with the class of Nvidia cards I mentioned and only when AA is enabled. If you know of another case, speak now or forever e-mail Aspyr support. ;)

Vtable alignment optimizations in C++ classes (as passed through a DLL interface) is the main issue, specifically when a mod adds methods or members to the C++ classes that pass through the DLL interface which the main app does not know about. We do also have changes to deal with visibility...

This Friday (Sept. 11) is my last day. Here's what I can tell you: progress is slow, but somewhat steady. One of our engineers has written either a beautiful or hideous hack to work around the main issue[1], but it's not 100% solid yet, and he's had a hard time tracking down the remaining...

It happens specifically on Nvidia G80-class cards (the 8600/8800/9400/9600/GT 1xx/GT 2xx) when AA is enabled. I took some time last week to investigate and believe I finally have this fixed, although I don't know if we have enough (any?) other fixes to warrant a patch yet. As a general rule...

The full magnitude of this hadn't occurred to me until now because we simply link against a slightly-modified Win32 SDK that Microsoft provides and don't think twice about it. But in essence, we'd either have to also provide our customized Win32 SDK headers (which might run into...

The readme is wrong. We updated to 1.185 for the Mac 3.19 patch, and it works for me.

Yes, a buggy Radeon driver. ;-) Immediately before or after the panic, check kernel.log (you can inspect it in the Console app, in /private/var/log) and look for something about the ATI driver. It'll probably look like so, followed by a bunch of numbers: Sep 5 09:20:23 intel-imac kernel[0]...

Yes, provided the PC is running BtS 3.19. Warlords and vanilla have, of course, been fine for some time. :)

I *think* when we're running fullscreen, we have to manually deal with the OS screenshot keys which is why it's silent and jpg - we're doing it ourselves. Don't quote me on that though; it's been years since I looked at that code in our library.

My suggestion would be to contact Aspyr support to give them a sense of the scope of the issues as they affect you. I've let the developer on Civ4 now know of the issues I've seen reported here, but if our support department hears a lot of noise about them, that helps them to prioritize the...

Well, it's possible that once they got started they realized what a nightmare PPC support would be. ;) To give an example, OpenGL drivers for PowerPC have not seen a lot of love, so they lag Intel drivers in features and performance in many cases. They also no longer see any bug fixes -...

It's my understanding that we're going to push the Mac 3.19 patch live some time today, so check our site this evening or tomorrow. This patch was mainly focused on PC parity and getting it done relatively quickly because of the multiplayer mismatch, so don't freak out if some of the known...

It's in our QA department now, so I don't imagine it'll be much longer, perhaps a few weeks in the worst case?