We haven't seen that here but I'll ask someone to have a look see if it's something in your settings. Do you have anything none standard (like a FFB plugin from 4 years ago installed?)
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We haven't seen that here but I'll ask someone to have a look see if it's something in your settings. Do you have anything none standard (like a FFB plugin from 4 years ago installed?)
Edwin
We haven't seen that here but I'll ask someone to have a look see if it's something in your settings. Do you have anything none standard (like a FFB plugin from 4 years ago installed?)
Edwin
I do have the FFB kext installed. I will play around with a few things to see if something is conflicting. Hopefully I can get the wheel to work with FFB installed. Maybe it is something simple that I am missing.
We can reproduce it with the FFB kext installed (wheels work great without the old KEXT from 10.6 installed), it could be the FFB kext is starting to show it's age (it's been 4 OS releases since it was supported). However next time we're in the wheel code we'll take a look. If it's simple we'll look at fixing it however I do think at some stage that kext is going to no longer work
Edwin
I do think at some stage that kext is going to no longer work
This is a huge concern of mine going forward as I find driving games without the forcefeedback ruin the experience. It really needs someone to write a modern driver - I'd swap my logitech wheel for any brand that gave forcefeedback support.
Somehow they managed to get FFB working in recent versions of Wine (now works in R Factor with Crossover) without me installing any Logitech software so maybe an enterprising programmer could use that code for inspiration.
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You can find it here.
It's about the fact that OS X Mavericks and Yosemite (Mountain Lion was not affected) have an issue regarding the (officially unsupported...) Radeon 7950 in a Mac Pro 3.1 ('08).
It seems that two kexts are slowing the card down.
I have removed the mentioned kexts and it really does work (best to test by running Unigine's benchmark apps).
We can reproduce it with the FFB kext installed (wheels work great without the old KEXT from 10.6 installed), it could be the FFB kext is starting to show it's age (it's been 4 OS releases since it was supported). However next time we're in the wheel code we'll take a look. If it's simple we'll look at fixing it however I do think at some stage that kext is going to no longer work
Edwin
I think you might be right about the kext which would be heartbreaking! I simply can't play without FFB and I really don't want to play racing games on the PC.
Yeah that makes two of us at least - Feral bringing the F1's, GRID's and DIRT's, not to mention others like your own Auto sport driving were finally making the Mac really great for racing fans something I'd wanted to see happen for years only for Logitech to drop support and then no one else taking over the market and offering a Force feedback wheel solution...
I'm also not really interested in buying and maintaining a Windows install or investing in one of the consoles when my Mac has been doing a great job for games it's a real shame.
This gives me a good reason not to upgrade my good ol' 08 Mac Pro to Yosemite (got a '13 iMac 27" for that).
No issues running 10.9.5
So according to the Feral twitter page Dirt 3 'should' be on Steam in the next week or two.
In the meantime can anyone tell me how Dirt 3 performs compared to Grid 2?
Or at least how we can expect it to perform compared with Grid 2?
I know the system requirements and they seem to be virtually the same... but can we expect Dirt 3 to be more intensive or less or the same when it comes to graphic requirements?
Thanks
In the meantime can anyone tell me how Dirt 3 performs compared to Grid 2?
Or at least how we can expect it to perform compared with Grid 2?
I know the system requirements and they seem to be virtually the same... but can we expect Dirt 3 to be more intensive or less or the same when it comes to graphic requirements?
Thanks
Great to see this now out - just picked it up on Steam and played for around an hour or so.
It was also a huge relief that despite the pre-game window not showing any controller connected my Logitech Formula Force EX wheel was seen in the game control settings screen and the Force Feedback is still working
I did recently move my wheel to it's own port on my USB 3 PCI-E card so this may be part of it. This was because after the 10.10.2 update (I think it was then) it started moving on it's own outside games - I used to have it connected via the hub in the Apple keyboard. I changed the port after spotting USB errors in the console.
It was also a huge relief that despite the pre-game window not showing any controller connected my Logitech Formula Force EX wheel was seen in the game control settings screen and the Force Feedback is still working
I did recently move my wheel to it's own port on my USB 3 PCI-E card so this may be part of it. This was because after the 10.10.2 update (I think it was then) it started moving on it's own outside games - I used to have it connected via the hub in the Apple keyboard. I changed the port after spotting USB errors in the console.
Edwin,
It looks like the PC version of Dirt 3 has the same issue with steering wheel. You can read about it here...
Has Feral looked into this anymore?
It looks like the PC version of Dirt 3 has the same issue with steering wheel. You can read about it here...
Has Feral looked into this anymore?
Yes we've known about it since the PC bug was revealed on the Steam forums, quite likely the PC bug might effect the Mac hacked drivers as well. Once the PC bug has been fixed we'll integrate and see if that fixes the bug or if the Mac issue isn't related to the PC bug.
[Update] Initial testing indicates that fixing the PC bug means the unsupported Mac FFB support for wheels will also be fixed. We'll look to implement this fix inside the next patch for DiRT 3.
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Hi Bodie,
The Mac App Store version has split screen multiplayer only - It does not have online multiplayer.
However, the Steam version has online multiplayer as well as the split screen multiplayer. The Steam version is out now and I have bought it... although I haven't had a chance to play it yet.
Hi bmac, and thank you!
I think in that case it might be best if I purchase it on Steam, then.
Thanks for the heads up
Hi bmac, and thank you!
I think in that case it might be best if I purchase it on Steam, then.
Thanks for the heads up
The Steam version also allows you to play against Windows players not just Mac players.