Ot: Os 10.2.8

[K-Man]

I know a few of you have said this new OS update has improved their performance of Civ 3. Although I haven't seen any problems with it for Civ, I'm having big problems with another game I play fairly often...Diablo 2. I'm playing on a 1 Ghz Power Book, which used to run the game fine on all the highest graphics settings, and this was as recently as a couple days before upgrading my OS. Now that I'm in 10.2.8, all the graphics are screwed up, making the game very hard to play. If I take off all the enhancements, nothing happens. If I take off AGP texturing, the graphics return to normal, but the game lags very badly...rendering the game completely unplayable.

I'm not sure if anyone here plays Diablo 2, or has experienced similar troubles for other games with the new OS. What I do know is that there are many people here who know a lot more about Mac computers than I do. Is there a way to completely reverse an OS update, or do I have to re-install OSX from the cd and then just update back to 10.2.6 and stop there? I'm hoping there is a simple solution, but so far I haven't found it. I tried completely re-installing the game, thinking that maybe it just needed to be re-installed over the newer OS, but nothing changed.

Thanks for any possible help you can lend me.

 

[AlanH]

I'm sorry I can't help with the game problem. I do have a very old copy of Diablo, but it knows nothing of OS X.

If you have to revert to 10.2.6 and yuo don't have a backup then you'll need to reinstall 10.2 then apply the 10.2.6 combo updater. It's an 81 MB disk image. I imagine it's still available from Apple, as they have pulled the 10.2.8 updater off their site so that's still the latest version for most of us.

 

[Trixter]

I think AlanH is right. There's no nice way to revert to a previous OS version and any way to manually try it would result in A LOT more work (believe me, I've tried something stupid like that before) than reinstalling 10.2 and then applying the 10.2.6 combo updater plus reinstalling any third-party stuff you use.

If you really want to reinstall 10.2.6, you might be interested in point 5 of the workaround section of Apple's 10.2.8 ethernet-problems-support document, that you can find here . It sounds as if it could save you at least some small part of the reinstallation problems.

 

[K-Man]

Thanks to both of you. I've been swamped lately, but I will sit down soon and re-install Jaguar, and see if that does the trick. Here's hoping.