[OSX] Unofficial Path of Exile port - 30/12/2018 status update

First off, I want to thank Julus for such a great port!

I know a lot of people have asked this, but I honestly don't know what to do anymore. I'm experiencing a ton of lag when playing (using 4.0.1). Yes, I have restarted my laptop. Also, I know that GGG has acknowledged this, but I don't think that windows players are experiencing as much lag as I have been, otherwise they would not be playing. The game literally becomes unbearable to play. I have no programs running when I'm playing PoE, my internet is completely fine, and I have reinstalled the entire game completely.

I'm using a mid 2012 macbook. Anyone have any ideas? Could this be a wine issue or is it really just an issue that GGG has to fix?

Sorry for asking a question that has constantly been asked.

Thanks!

Little Issue here. When using Command+Tab (Like Alt+Tab) while using fullscreen the game sets into windowed mode and locks like that. No biggie only that the Mac Menu Bar cuts off the top 20 pixels and making the game a nuisance. Is there a known way to bring the game back into full screen after using Cmnd+Tab?

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walrus123 wrote:

Little Issue here. When using Command+Tab (Like Alt+Tab) while using fullscreen the game sets into windowed mode and locks like that. No biggie only that the Mac Menu Bar cuts off the top 20 pixels and making the game a nuisance. Is there a known way to bring the game back into full screen after using Cmnd+Tab?

Change the resolution and then click 'Revert'.

Hi Julus I have been happily playing path of exile on my mac using your awesome port.. BUT I have been having a bit of a problem... When I try and launch path of exile it stays at Checking Resources! I have left it for over an hour! Any help from any one would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

I have already patched so why would it do it again? Thanks

thank you a lot for a wine wrapped PoE OS X port.. running like a charm on my early 2011 MacBook Pro ... few hic ups but those are WINE issues that will hopefully be fixed in the future.

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edwardm84 wrote:

So not sure if this has been touched upon yet in this thread but I have verified that on my mac (and I assume others), under 3.6, 3.7, 4.0 and 4.0.1, voidbearers often cause DC or lagspike issues where they do not on a pc.

I highly recommend if you are a summoner not to use spectre skill on voidbearers (which sucks because they're good pets), and instead opt for the archers as your ranged spectres. Unfortunately, as a summoner (a poor build choice to use on a mac port, i know), I'm relegated to only soloing docks and can't really team with anyone who does a lot of skills with a ton of pixel effects (2 hand marauders=good, cold witches=bad).

Act 3 altogether is very choppy under Wine for less powerful computers. Hence I use Bootcamp for Act 3 and do the others under Wine.

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xportal wrote:

Can't download "Download Links v4.0.1 - Recommended"

Works fine for me.

Ah. This corroborates highly with what I've been experiencing. Docks lags terribly because of voidbearers, Act 3 in general spikes erratically- and act 2 seemed fine.

Still, this is a step up from my Parallel's PoE. Managed to get to 48 nicely before seriously hitting a wall in the Docks (I've died at least 20 times due to framespike lags-- given up on levelling. Now I'll just run the other areas.

But where else to go, if not Docks? :(

Continuing on this issue, rather off-topic but I'll mention this nonetheless.

So I just did Docks with my new Summoner, under Bootcamp Win7. There are quite serious problems there too. Whenever I cast Summon Skeletons, some tiles on the terrain go all black (aka glitching). Then whenever Voidbearers were in sight my FPS instatnly dropped below 10, making progress very dangerous. For my summons, I used 4 Zombies, 5 Skeletons and 2 Spectres. No Spectres were Voidbearers.

Could be ATI/AMD driver issues, could be game issues, could be something else. I did install AMD Catalyst drivers (for HD 2000 Series) just before playing. Maybe I should get rid of them and see if Apple's Bootcamp drivers do better.


EDIT I just did a similar run under Wine. And guess what. No glitches/missing tiles, sligthly less choppy performance overall. I don't know what to say...