Mac User - weird red pixel lines all over screen

[AlexJust]

Sometimes when running the game the graphics will not work and show red lines and messed up graphics. Sometimes when moving my mouse it will fix the problem but once I stop moving it the graphics go back to the mess of red lines. My Mac runs on the up to date version of Catalina.

[olivander]

As a data point for the devs, I am *not* experiencing this problem, and I am on an early 2008 Mac Pro running OS 10.11 and with a NVIDIA GeForce GT 640.

[GlassDeviant]

Originally posted by alexjustice97:

Sometimes when running the game the graphics will not work and show red lines and messed up graphics. Sometimes when moving my mouse it will fix the problem but once I stop moving it the graphics go back to the mess of red lines. My Mac runs on the up to date version of Catalina.

Specs on your computer would help, like what model and what graphics card you have. The computer olivander has is pretty much the top of the line Mac for its time, using dual 4-core server/workstaion CPUs and he's clearly replaced the graphics card since the 640 came out in 2012.

Old computers, like 1 decade and more, are generally not capable of running this game, although most of the people I've noticed having problems are laptop users. Laptops are generally anaemic because unscrupulous companies often build very underpowered models for their time so they can be sold extremely cheaply, even when they are being labelled as "gaming" laptops (which is fine if the games you play are like Bejewelled or Candy Crush).

[César Augusto]

I too have this problem running the latest Catalina. I could only solve it by disabling fullscreen and playing in windowed mode. I have a 15-inch MacBook Pro from 2017 with the Intel Core i7-7700HQ (2.8GHz) and a Radeon Pro 555 GPU.

[GlassDeviant]

That seems odd, since you're basically running Linux, on an Intel CPU with a PC GPU.

[César Augusto]

Enabling "Open in Low Resolution" in the "Get Info" window of the app itself allowed me to run the game without issues.

[Sadboymommyissues]

Also having this problem, very annoying. Hope it's fixed soon.
I was able to get the game to run enabling "Open the low Resolution" in the Get info window