Some odd problems I've been having with Descent 3, Summoner and Red Faction

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3 total messages Started by Eric Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:02

#89595

Author: Eric
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:02

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I realize these are all kinda� oldish games, but these bugs are 
absolutely mind numbing, especially the D3 one.

First off, if I try to run Summoner or Red Faction above 640�480, 
whether in 800�600 or 1024�768, the game quits on launch and dumps me 
back in the Finder. I've tried all of the settings and none of them seem 
to have any effect, but RF runs fine at these resolutions on my 
brother's computer.

Also in regards to Summoner, whenever Summoner plays a cutscene, the 
audio slowly goes out of synchronization with the onscreen action, and 
then cutscenes always end a few seconds before they're supposed to (even 
before the entirety of the audio is through playing, and even during the 
narrated slideshow-ish chapter dividers. This didn't use to happen on my 
last machine (a �Quicksilver 2002� 733Mhz G4.)

In Descent 3, attempting to play online with PXO doesn't seem to do 
anything; as running the game, selecting a pilot, clicking on the 
�Multiplayer� button (thus summoning the multiplayer dialog), and double 
clicking on the �Parellax Online� or �TCP/IP� items or selecting either 
and clicking �OK� results in nothing but the multiplayer dialog 
vanishing and leaving me at the main menu. The single player part works 
beautifully though.

I'm running version 1.30 of Summoner, 1.42 (OpenGL) of Descent 3, and 
1.2 of Red Faction. My machine is a 1.25Ghz Power Mac G4 booted under OS 
9.2.2 with 1.25GB of RAM and a GeForce 4Ti with 128MB VRAM. Also, has 
anyone heard anything about what happened to the enhanced/OS X port of 
Descent 3 that Duane Johnson was working on? Thanks for any help.





               Eric,

Re: Some odd problems I've been having with Descent 3, Summoner and Red Faction

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Author: Lueder Hoppe
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:56

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"Eric" <er...@surfvh.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:eric-32A7DA.00022822032006@sn-ip.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net...
> In Descent 3, attempting to play online with PXO doesn't seem to do
> anything; as running the game, selecting a pilot, clicking on the
<snip>

Visit www.planetdescent.com and head for the download section. Keep your
eyes open for a tool called "vortex". This is a must for D3 multiplayer
since PXO is down. I�m not shure if you will find a mac version, anyway...

Lueder

Re: Some odd problems I've been having with Descent 3, Summoner and Red Faction

#89597

Author: Eric
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 04:22

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In article <dvr3gs$i1f$1...@news1.ewetel.de>,
 "Lueder Hoppe" <Lueder...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Visit www.planetdescent.com and head for the download section. Keep your
> eyes open for a tool called "vortex". This is a must for D3 multiplayer
> since PXO is down. I�m not shure if you will find a mac version, anyway...

Thanks! I forgot that PXO was dead.

                                 Eric,

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