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mikeydangerous
Nov 2, 2008, 07:33 PM
I just got a hold of Portal, but I'm having an odd issue with it: The game will not draw everything. Sometimes the boxes are invisible, and I just got to the level with the little motion sensing machinegun bots, but all I can see are their laser sensors, I can't see the bots themselves. I've tried changing the video settings, lowering the resolution, or details, but no luck.

I'm on a MacBook running OSX 10.5.5 with 2GB RAM and a 2GHz Core 2 Duo.

Any ideas?


Eidorian
Nov 2, 2008, 07:35 PM
Is this on the GMA 950, GMA X3100, or the 9400M G?
mikeydangerous
Nov 2, 2008, 07:42 PM
Sorry, forgot there were new MacBooks out. It's an older one: Intel GMA 950.
Eidorian
Nov 2, 2008, 07:44 PM
You might want to try the latest video drivers from Intel. The GMA 950 has random success playing Source based games.
mikeydangerous
Nov 2, 2008, 07:56 PM
I'm not running Portal in Windows, I'm running it in OSX straight.
Eidorian
Nov 2, 2008, 07:58 PM
I'm not running Portal in Windows, I'm running it in OSX straight.Crossover or a virtual machine? You need to elaborate a lot more then you already are. I don't want to keep asking small questions.
mikeydangerous
Nov 2, 2008, 08:05 PM
No Crossover, No virtual machine, No Parallels, No Bootcamp, No Windows at all. I'm running Portal for OSX.
Mackilroy
Nov 2, 2008, 08:15 PM
That's impossible. There's no such thing as Portal for OS X.
Eidorian
Nov 2, 2008, 08:16 PM
That's impossible, there's no such thing as Portal for OS X.I'm a little stumped as well. It's THIS game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(video_game)) right?
mikeydangerous
Nov 2, 2008, 08:29 PM
That's it. Portal, of the Orange Box. Native in OSX as a Cider port. Info says:
"Cider 5.3 Mac experimental Transgaming Technologies Inc. 2006"
Eidorian
Nov 2, 2008, 08:31 PM
That's it. Portal, of the Orange Box. Native in OSX as a Cider port. Info says:
"Cider 5.3 Mac experimental Transgaming Technologies Inc. 2006"So where did you get this copy of Portal? It sounds like you're just running Steam via Crossover.
mikeydangerous
Nov 2, 2008, 08:32 PM
Never mind, finally found the answer elsewhere. Apparently the short draw distance is a known issue. The game isn't even supposed to work on this chipset anyway. Oh well, I guess I'll have to go with BootCamp.

Thanks anyway guys
Mackilroy
Nov 2, 2008, 08:37 PM
Ah, did you run it through a copy of Cider to see if you could play it natively? But yeah, not much point in playing it on the GMA 950 anyhow.