Request for QA Mac testers

I'll give the launcher params a try. Anything fancier will have to wait until tomorrow - have to get organized for a class I'm teaching this evening...

BTW, celebration on increased frame rate was premature - most was due to a (side-effect?) change of quality from Auto to Fastest. Forced it back I'm once again at 4-5fps aat the same view.

 

@Undone The launcher params 'worked', but what it does is force the intial window size to 1920x1080 rather than do any scaling. Video menu then offers that window size plus the whole screen option as in the one above. About to try the same trick with full screen set.

@Undone With full screen set, the launcher params are ignored and I end up at 2560x1440 with no other menu options.

 

Like so:

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Is that what you expected to see? It's not how SotA was behaving pre-R48 (and the new Unity version) - it would use the specified resolution within the bounds of its window, IOW, it scaled.

 

@Undone Eureka! - maybe. I tried setting the 'Open in Low Resolution' flag in the Info window for both the Launcher and the embedded Sota app. That gets a different behavior, which is scaling - but doing it wrong. See the following:

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Notice that it did come up in a lower resolution, just got it rather wrong - X axis is way too wide. Fonts are also funky. Nonetheless - this is more like how it was behaving pre-R48, just bugged.

Hypothesis: Unity started 'respecting' the Open in Low Res flag in the last release, but got it somehow wrong. It forces Sota to 'system resolution' if the flag is NOT set - which is how it is behaving in my first screen dumps. If the Low Res flag is set, then it takes what's set in the params, but gets it wrong. (And I have no idea why that should behave differently on your systems than mine. I might give my old MacBook Air a try again just to see what happens - if it doesn't melt...)

That's all until late tonight or tomorrow.

 

Some, but of course it's pushing fewer pixels. See my new post for something closer to how it used to behave.

 

Did some testing this evening. So far, I'm not seeing any real difference in performance. Seems about the same FPS with or without metal. I do get some occasional glitches, where a tree will flash white for a frame, or get some odd multi colored patterns on a texture for a frame, but thats about it.

I did run into one odd issue. My MacBook Pro 15" has both integrated and dedicated graphics. When I first ran the client with metal, the graphics were horribly washed out. After a few attempts and some fiddling I was able to get it to go away by deactivating the automatic graphics switching in System Preferences to force it to use the dedicated graphics.

System Specs:
MacOs: 10.13.1
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2 GB / Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

 

@Undone One support for my theory above: Yesterday, I tried going back to R48 and forcing the same resolutions as above (able to do it thru the menu, rather than launcher params) and ended up exactly the same situation with low-res but wrong aspect ratio window. This was WITHOUT Open in Low Res flag set. In QA version I got that effect only when setting the Low Res flag in the finder. I think Unity changed something in how/whether they handle that OS X level setting.