Heavensward : Mac Osx Tips (Improve Performance/FPS)

[Dilly2084]

Hi Sigg,

Sorry for very delayed response but school work and work been dragging me along :\

So the reason I have a mac to game on is that my PC blew up and I started to develop more on a mac both at work and for school - so graphics and configuring them for games is a bit of a new thing for me. The drivers you mentioned - were these the CUDA drivers on nvidia site?

I downloaded and installed and it seems to just run because now I see it in my system preferences pane but I don't see any options or anything like how Windows has it (expected? I'm not sure) pardon my stupidity :\

[Bishop81]

Hi Sigg,

Sorry for very delayed response but school work and work been dragging me along :\

So the reason I have a mac to game on is that my PC blew up and I started to develop more on a mac both at work and for school - so graphics and configuring them for games is a bit of a new thing for me. The drivers you mentioned - were these the CUDA drivers on nvidia site?

I downloaded and installed and it seems to just run because now I see it in my system preferences pane but I don't see any options or anything like how Windows has it (expected? I'm not sure) pardon my stupidity :\

Having owned a Mac before ... in general you don't install drivers.

Apple updates the drivers as they update the OS. You have no control over the drivers used.

i.e. Apple takes care of everything for you.

[Sigg]

Yes normally you don't have to install drivers, though for my Radeon i had to install driver manually because the auto "apps" mac updates was messing with it, didnt want to aknowledge it & was only recognizing the intel basic card, even had to go re-edit a text file & add a line : MBP 8.3,

I really don't know for Nvidia though, i just checked on their website & ended on a cudadriver .dmg file. I don't know if it has the same issue that i had with Radeon, & also had to use Gfxcardstatus to enable the radeon & still have to at the moment. Maybe try Gfxcardstatus it might solve your issue. Sorry for the late response. You might be able to check if it's active or not by going in Apple icon > about this mac > overview tab > system report > Graphics/Displays

[Sigg]

Having owned a Mac before ... in general you don't install drivers.

Apple updates the drivers as they update the OS. You have no control over the drivers used.

i.e. Apple takes care of everything for you.

Yes normally you don't have to install drivers, though for my Radeon i had to install driver manually because the auto "apps" mac updates was messing with it, didnt want to aknowledge it & was only recognizing the intel basic card, even had to go re-edit a text file & add a line : MBP 8.3,

I really don't know for Nvidia though, i just checked on their website & ended on a cudadriver .dmg file. I don't know if it has the same issue that i had with Radeon, & also had to use Gfxcardstatus to enable the radeon & still have to at the moment. Maybe try Gfxcardstatus it might solve your issue. You might be able to check if it's active or not by going in Apple icon > about this mac > overview tab > system report > Graphics/Displays

Sorry for the late response !