Mac Issues – troubles start playing

[Kutzematze]

Left-Mouseclick and mouse-over recognition do not work with my MacBook Pro.


Hi there,

after loading the game, everything seems fine. First I get an update-history-window, after that I get the menu, I can do the settings, I can start a new game, I get the missions introduction-note. After quitting this I am standing in front of my "new" office.

Then the issues start:

I can move the mouse, so the camera moves (way too fast – you hardly can control, where to look).

But the gameplay does not react on leftclick, nor does it recognize the item to grab while mousover. I saw in a letsplay on YT it normally does change the curser and ask for clicking.

So I cannot get rid of the waste in front of the office-door – and continue playing, or in other words, even start playing. The only thing I can do is moving the camera (way to fast). I CAN do rightclick, changing the tool (while having just one at this stage – my hands).

But leftclicking is impossible. It ist possible in the menu and in the settings though.

After continuing gameplay returning from menu, all the same. No leftclick, no mousover.

Exactly same issue with the build-in trackpad of my MacBook (exept for the camera movement is not as fast as the mouses and I can control it a bit better). So the leftclick and mousover is not a problem of the mouse itself. I even tried two different devices.

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Plus: The game starts only in 'House Flipper (Open-GL) version'. The "default version" crashes shortly before loading is finished.


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Computer-Setup:

Macbook-Pro late 2013 15 " Retina
IntelCore i7
8GB Ram
Mac OS 10.11.6
Graphics Intel Iris Pro 1,5 GB

Apple Magic Mouse
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Thanks for your help in advance.


Greetings Manuel

[Abhorrent Mu]

yeah, the same, just sell it the way it is, and buy another house

[StarSarah]

I am having the same problems, cannot play! How do you sell the office?

[Hubert]

Yep. I'm having similar issues
I even ordered a new mouse on Amazon and updated my MacOS, thinking that might fix it. lol.
This morning I sent them emails via their website with my play log and the various issues we're facing. Right click works, left click works except to place, buy or remove items. A single click is actually picking up items. Oh and all the tools I earned yesterday disappeared. I'm able to play in either the regular or OpenGL versions, but having the same issues in both versions.
I'll post a reply here, when they get back to me. Fingers crossed it's fixed by morning.

[schuylerdade]

I had the same problem and I ended up returning the game because I was afraid of getting outside of the return window for a game I couldn't make work. (Same computer as OP, but earlier OS.)

[Zeok Zai]

Same problem here

[Liz]

This is actually a lag issue.

At first I thought left click wasn't working at all outside of the menu, but after it worked a few times, I realised it's just really slow to respond.

I messed around with the settings to reduce lag (textures ultra low, reduced resolution, etc) and now left click works every time.

It's painfully slow. I might return this game for now and give them a few months to make fixes before I buy it again.

I'm using a 2016 macbook pro FWIW.

[Matthew4744]

2017 Macbook Pro
2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Intel HD Graphics 630 1536 MB
I can't even play the game fluntenly

[Kutzematze]

Originally posted by PaxCoffee:

This is actually a lag issue.

I messed around with the settings to reduce lag (textures ultra low, reduced resolution, etc) and now left click works every time.

It's painfully slow. I might return this game for now and give them a few months to make fixes before I buy it again.

TY. Well, if it is a lag issue, it's still ridiculous. Playing on ultra low. That's what you really want on a high performant computer. Of course I reduced the resolution aswell to about 1400x1000. Then set the other settings to medium, anti alaising off and so on. Still nothing.

Originally posted by NightviewHK:

2017 Macbook Pro
2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Intel HD Graphics 630 1536 MB
I can't even play the game fluntenly

This is even more ridiculous.
This is a top-up-to-date MAC with high performance.

I replied in a different post, where they had the same issues.

And one of the devs answered kind of like this: we are sorry for your issues, but we concentrated to develop and optimize House Flipper for PC and MAC in the first place. And a MacBook is a notebook, and notebooks often have not the performance, like desktops have.

(So a MacBook is apparently not a MAC.)

Haha.

A MacBook is a MAC. And a Dell- or HP-Notebook for example is a PC.
That does not depend on the case.

I have a iMac 27'' in my homeoffice. Most of it has similar or comparable components as the MacBook. And it is a desktop.

(I did not try it there, as it is my working-computer plus the OS is older than required.)

Let us talk in plaintext: They are selling a game as completed and well-engineered. But it is not more than an early beta or early access-version.

Look at the whole discussion-thread. It is very telling. Problems, issues, more problems. And it's getting obviously even worse with the patches.


I returned the game for now as PaxCoffee suggested. TY for that.

It did not even last 5 ninutes and I had my money back.

I guess thats for a reason: I might not be the first and for sure not be the last.
And Steam is already bugged about that many returns :-)))


So, maybe another time later again, when the devs did their homeworks. The game would have been nice to play. But it surely is not what we call a "game-changer" or "must have".


Greetings Manuel

[St2TX]

Same response from developers here - game was intended for mouse play only, not touchpad use. Game was not meant for laptops.... things that you would think would have been mentioned in the requirements, not as an afterthought when things don't work right. Not impressed!

[brittrobinson09]

Wish i would of read this thread before i excitingly bought the game hahaha

[Seasonalfrostbite]

I wish I read this before I purchased but i'm getting my money back, this is clearly one of those stupid game developers who used a short cut to get a program to run on a mac, the same reason why the sims 3 ran so terrible on a mac because instead of rebuilding the code for it to run on mac they clearly used a short cut one of those really stupid cross over programs which IS SO LAZY and does NOT run the same.

[Seasonalfrostbite]

Game developers need to stop using short cuts to get things running on a mac, i am TIRED of lazy game developers, u cannot use shortcuts to run things on MAC OS U have to rebuild the game to fit mac needs not use short cuts. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/why-mac-gaming-is-still-dead/

[Goodracer]

The game works on my '15 Macbook Pro but on Bootcamp.... need to tone graphics settings down to 1280p but it isn't bad. Hope this helps

[Hubert]

Developers never responded to any of my emails - did see same note/thread from them saying it was made for MACs not laptops and that it should be played on leopard OS - lol Leopard was from like 5 years ago.
I did reduce all my graphics etc down to basic settings and it now works 50-75% but super slow. I gave up on it last month.

[Kaws]

I have top of the link macbook pro 2019 and I found the performance to be bad. Clicking the mouse and it pausing a second and also locking button input so if you were moving it'd keep moving were the worst. So I booted up Parallels and it runs fine. This is rather sad.