Mac testers needed

[Sebioff]

Hey,
we've got an update that improves some things for Mac users, but would like to make sure it's working properly before releasing it to everyone.
If you're playing on a Mac, could you please right-click on Parkitect in your Steam library and select Properties -> Betas -> select "experimental" from the dropdown list?

Then simply start the game and let us know if it's crashing or not (or if you're noticing any other problems, but if the game runs at all everything else should be fine). Please also include your macOS version and which type of Mac hardware you're using.

You can put the "Betas" property back to "default" afterwards. Thanks!

[Sebioff]

引用自 randalc：

After posting the above I went back to the released version to get the "E" update that fixes the weeds. I was shocked at how much worse the graphics are and went back to the experimental version. Are you going to release the E update for this version also? Is this using Apple's Metal?
I have not had the hang loading the title screen since posting the above, and the game is loading quickly. The only bug I consistently have is the unassigned shopkeeper wandering around, maybe I deleted his shop before he got to it? As long as it keeps working I will stay on this version. Thanks for the improvements!

Yes, it's using Metal (to bring the graphics up to par with the Windows/Linux versions). The main problem is that some Macs apparently are still using an older macOS version with very early Metal drivers that tend to crash a lot :/
We might simply try to make this the default version soon and see how many Mac error reports we get.

[GT]

Can I just say that the engine update available on the experimental version is amazing work! Thank you so much. The game used to lag and wasn't enjoyable to play. Now it looks great and runs so smoothly. Even more so on my new machine. No issues as of yet but I will be playing a lot more now. Also glad to see the issues with the scaling of the logos at the start and UI scaling has been fixed.

macOS Catalina 10.15.3
MacBook Pro 16" (2019)
16GB 2667 MHz DDR4
AMD Radeon Pro 5300M 4GB

[nick]

Since the move to Metal everything is a lot smoother and way more enjoyable. Great work on getting it ported so quick!

Tested on MBP 16"

[leonwpotter]

Hi, I've been unable to properly play the newest and experimental versions on my MBP.

When playing the newest version, the FPS was super low so I lowered the resolution and turned off temporal anti aliasing and even went in window mode and the game would crash after a few minutes in the first campaign scenario.

For the experimental version, the game will not make it past the logo loading screen before crashing.

Specs are:
2016 MBP 13"
MacOS Sierra 10.12.6
2.9 GHz Intel Core i5
16GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Intel Iris Graphics 550 1536MB

Any help would be appreciated in regards to whether I should update to a different OS or what settings I could use.

[randalc]

The last update seems to have removed the experimental version. Is it coming back? The downgrade in graphics is pretty severe and I would rather use it, weeds and all.

[Sebioff]

Do you mean the experimental version doesn't show up in the Betas tab anymore, or do the graphics look downgraded when using the latest experimental version?
(The latest experimental version isn't labeled "Experimental" in-game, but it's still supposed to have all of the visual upgrades)

[randalc]

The graphics look like the old version. It shows in the tab. I tried installing the normal version and then went back to experimental. Each time I got a small, I forget but under 10 mb download, and both versions looked the same.

[randalc]

I just launched the game again and it looked like the experimental version. This afternoon the colors were faded and the edges were more jagged/high contrast, the horizontal lines were shimmering much worse, it was surprising. Is there something else that may have caused this? Maybe it and Steam needed re-starting, sorry to bother you if it was only my system.