X³: TC and AP - Mac support thread

joe12sol · Post by **joe12sol** » Fri, 20. Sep 13, 21:45

When i finished the main plot and also reached a trade rank of 15, I attempted to restart a new game to obtained the plot of tormented teladi. I was able to only have that plot become unlocked once, that first time. When I restarted my machine the unlocked plots were once again all locked up. Any way to keep these plots unlocked?

phantomrock2 · Post by **phantomrock2** » Sat, 28. Sep 13, 16:27

Did we address the bug of the Troubled Corp plot stopping?
If so, then I am still not getting any messages to show up at SRS.

Sorry ladies & gentlemen but the game keeps crashing, screen goes all black
& I keep running into the strange occurrence of where my keyboard does not respond to any commands at all. Which happens after I have minimized the game & returned to it.

Also upon closer observation I see that I have a Tyr with a triplex scanner installed but when I undock from the station it does not show up in my freight list.

Upon re-editing this post the game had just crashed again. I'm not the one to complain but i spent an awful amount of time quitting & re-opening games on the 30th of Sept 2013.
Gee I wish I knew what was going & where to go to stop it from going on because the unexpected crashes are all too much to bear.

Please get the Bonus Pck for us MAC users up because with the previous MAC port before it was brought to Steam I could copy the Bonus Pack scripts & T from a PC & copy into the addon folder on the MAC & the Bonus Pack perks would show up. Now when I do this the game refuses to see what I have done & I have READTEXT or SS_WARE_etc, etc messages everywhere now.

6 OCT 2013
In the Build 13 I am still encountering the black screen while in The Moon sector

10 Oct 2013
Turned down some of the graphics & it's no black screen in The Moon
But the TC plot is still not working
Shady Business I have done
& My Achievements are not registering & now since the game save files are compatible on both platforms I know I have done most of them but they won't unlock. Don't tell me I have to start a whole new game.

10 Nov 2013
Used the PC Platform to start all the way over
Blazed through all plots...
Could not get any help with why the TC plot just ground to a halt
Transferred files to MAC & still stuck in Xenon Graveyard
When I had done this plot before with the utmost ease on MAC
If we are not going to make the Bonus Pack available on Steam for MAC then make it so that the game see the .pck & .xml & what not files if we choose to copy over to MAC. Give us a update or something.

matt9871 · Post by **matt9871** » Sat, 28. Sep 13, 20:22

A couple issues I've noticed.

On X3TC there is no option for the Suicidal Squid (DID) game start also there is no menu for steam achievements in the game so I assume they don't work.

On X3AP the game says there is a lack of a connection to Steam so I can't choose the DID option.

rgunnyon · Post by **rgunnyon** » Thu, 3. Oct 13, 19:05

I've run into two issues so far.

1) Galaxy map does not resize properly with F5 key. Window resizes, contents do not.

2) Launching boarding pods causes crash to desktop.
This is in both TC and AP.

I've emailed a save game and a screen shot

qwid · Post by **qwid** » Fri, 18. Oct 13, 15:53

Any update on installing bonus pack scripts?

joe12sol · Post by **joe12sol** » Sat, 19. Oct 13, 00:51

everything seems working great now. except the boarding pods problem in AP. and word on that?

Dark Stanley · Post by **Dark Stanley** » Sat, 19. Oct 13, 21:17

There is one more bug for me:

My unlocked gamestarts disappear every time I start AP. The only way to re-unlock them is to load a save that meets all prerequisites and keep playing until I gain a new fight-, trade-, or racerank and then save.
As I have already high ranks this is very time-consuming.
Is there any way around this without modding?

qwid · Post by **qwid** » Sat, 26. Oct 13, 03:48

timon37 wrote: Regarding the bonus pack it's probably best if you just give me a week to check what's the status of the steam DLC and enable it for mac.

Any update on this? Would love to be using bonus pack scripts.

Many thanks for any info.

joe12sol · Post by **joe12sol** » Wed, 6. Nov 13, 21:03

it has been awhile since build 13 went into effect. Any news on issues being worked on? mostly just those last 3 issues we all asked about, boarding pods, unlocked starts and bonus pack. The pods are most important for me.

Scaramander · Post by **Scaramander** » Wed, 13. Nov 13, 14:54

:roll:I have played x3 since the early x series started. it has been a real experience. recently switched to mac and played tc on pc in uk and mac in usa. now playing AP on mac only.
recently had a problem with my spring blossom being beaten up by my HQ.
posted to VP who have reported to contact egosoft for a fix. Am contemplating purchasing older games and replaying those on the mac, but wonder about the support issues.
how can I get updates/ fixes?

Post by **CBJ** » Wed, 13. Nov 13, 16:57

VP are no longer updating their port. If you are playing our version then we will issue updates for the Mac version when we do so for the PC, usually at the same time. Support for our version is available right here in this thread.

WingC3 · Post by **WingC3** » Sat, 16. Nov 13, 02:46

Hi all,
Been getting back into AP lately. Finally got my player HQ. I have 15 ships docked there and my Aran floating outside. I find that whenever I have the PHQ on screen my framerate drops staggeringly. Is that normal? Is it improved by having fewer ships docked at the HQ?
My framerate elsewhere is quite smooth.

Thanks in advance....

Post by **Alan Phipps** » Mon, 18. Nov 13, 14:51

It is not that normal behaviour, but without any of the info requested here, I really cannot help you further.

WingC3 · Post by **WingC3** » Mon, 18. Nov 13, 21:18

Running on macbook pro 15" mid-2010
Mac OS 10.9. 1st gen core-i7 2.67GHz, 8GB RAM,
Samsung 500GB SSD. Nvidia geforce 330M 512MB

X3:AP (VP) 2.5.1.
1280x720
Nostalgic Argon
Running bonus pack, Its cockpit mod. No other mods

Frame rate everywhere else is 30+

qwid · Post by **qwid** » Tue, 19. Nov 13, 02:26

How did you install the bonus pack?

EDIT:

Hacked my way through with a CrossOver trial extract. Got it working.

posed · Post by **posed** » Mon, 25. Nov 13, 20:16

I've played the beta release for a while now and found a bug concerning the wasp missile which is almost invisible now comparing to the VP Version of X3 AP or TC. I'm not sure if it is a graphic card issue (ATI Radeon 5770).
Thanks for checking out.

time-machine · Post by **time-machine** » Tue, 26. Nov 13, 11:02

Hi,
I'm on Mac OS X 10.9.
The game crashes directly after firing a boarding pod (no matter what kind of M7 I'm using an in which sector I am).

I scriptet different M7 and different M6 (and set them to owner "Enemy" or Boron an marked Boron as enemy). Then I scripted Marines and boarding pods. It said "boarding pods installed", they turned from grey and unusable to white. When I start them, the game crashes to desktop. I reinstalled the game, same behavior. The game doesn't ether say (no matter which missile an which ship) "this missile needs a hostile ship."

On windows it works great. The game says "this missile needs a hostile ship" and it fires the boarding pods.

I have no save game attached, because it also happens when I start a new game (no matter which game start I use, it happens with all of them). Started the game I jump to Terraner unknown sector 2 and created my ships. I tried it in a boron sector on game start as well, same problem.

I hope you can help me (and understand me, english is not my native tongue)

phantomrock2 · Post by **phantomrock2** » Tue, 3. Dec 13, 06:13

I am still afraid to play the game on the MAC platform for the reasons that I cannot use the Bonus Pck for the life of me. Even though I am hovering around just over .2 billion in credits which is nothing compared to the 13 billion I had before everything got so fuzzy... What's going on with the MAC version of AP there & all this silence could only mean that we are working on a MAC version of Rebirth

Is there anyone at Egosoft reading these posts

Horse Battery · Post by **Horse Battery** » Wed, 1. Jan 14, 01:34

Hello, I'm having a problemwith my X3: Albion Prelude copy I just bought on Steam to play on my Mac.

The Suicidal Squid scenario is unavailable with the error message "No connection to Steam is available at the moment. Please reconnect and try again." and I'm unable to obtain any achievement.

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Various information:

Mac OS version is 10.9.1
Steam seems to work properly
Other games does not exhibit similar issues
I've already tried to restart both Steam and the computer
I've already tried to check the game files in Steam
Mac OS' firewall has been configured to allow connections for Steam, I haven't been prompted for X3:AP
The computer is connected to a router, no inbound ports have been opened and outbound ports are not restricted
I'm not using any mod or script, it's a vanilla game

Let me know if you need additional details.

Post by **Alan Phipps** » Wed, 1. Jan 14, 10:46

Moving Horse Battery's post to Mac support thread.

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X³: TC and AP - Mac support thread

In X3AP 3.1...

mac support for x3 ap

Mac X3AP - PHQ Kills framerate when on screen?

additional info

Wasp Missile almost invisible

Usage of Boarding Pod causes crash

Still Afraid...

[Steam - Mac - X3:AP 3.1.13] No connection to Steam is available at the moment