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Flightgear 2.0.0 keeps force quitting on OS X Tiger

Postby Useydess » Wed Feb 01, 2023 5:02 am

Hi so i recently got FlightGear for OS X Tiger for a old power mac G4 i have and when i try to start it up it will go into the loading screen then force quit on me, im presume its due to a hardware limitation, anyone know why this might be happening or what the best way to optimize the game for running on this low end hardware

Specs:
OS X tiger 10.4.11

Dual 800 MHz PowerPC G4 2MB 1.3 Cache per Processor

1.5 GB SDRAM

Nvidia GeForce2 MX with TwinView with 64MB of VRAM

any help would be much appreciated
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Re: Flightgear 2.0.0 keeps force quitting on OS X Tiger

Postby wkitty42 » Wed Feb 01, 2023 11:48 am

firstly, FGv2.anything is hugely out of date for support so it is very doubtful there will be much assistance forthcoming...
secondly, those old FG versions pulled scenery and data from long defunct and no longer existent servers... the data that was pulled from those servers is just not accessible to those old FG versions any more...

with that said, what does the FG log file say? it may contain information about the crash that might point us more directly to the reason for the exit...

FWIW: i'm not sure that GPU has enough video memory being only 64MB...
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Re: Flightgear 2.0.0 keeps force quitting on OS X Tiger

Postby TheEagle » Fri Feb 03, 2023 8:16 pm

Uh, first thing I'd check the RAM usage during startup of FG - from my experience 1.5 GB will never be enough … ;) I'd suggest you just get a new laptop !
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