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stuepfnick said:
Believe me, there is a BIG bug in the UT2004 Demo. On Single Processor Macs it runs with maximum the half frame rate, try this:

Open home/library/application support/unreal tournament2004/System/

and edit the UT2004.ini file just with Textedit.

Change:
Channels=6
CacheSizeMegs=32 (your VideoRAMsize)
VARSize= 32 (again)

at OpenGL (not Direct3D ;-):
LevelOfAnisotropy=0

and if you want:
Use16BitTextures=True

These was just small tweaking! Now to work around the bug you MUST turn off audio, to get 2 or 3 times the frame-rate as before (indoor runs very smooth now on my 800Mhz iMacG4, all effects, high resolution, etc.)

THIS IS IMPORTANT (ONLY single-CPU Macs!:
The same file as before:
Open home/library/application support/unreal tournament2004/System/UT2004.ini

UseSound=False

At the Engine.GameEngine!

This is extremely important, turning off the sound works around the bug UT2004 has with single CPU machines. It runs at least twice as fast then. You will see it, now even the menu runs smooth :)

Sorry for the OT.

Dude YOU ROCK! My pb12" 867Mhz 640Mb of RAM can now play it WITH EVERYTHING ON and NORMAL SETTINGS at 1024x768x32bit very smoothly!!! That's great! Considering that right after installing it I could NOT play at all even a 800x600x16 and everything off and low settings! And you say "it just small tweaking"!! The sound bug was responsible for just half of the slowdown! Even removing sound I couldn't play...

Thanks!

Anidel
 
limpidezza said:
Hello all,

Please help me.

I installed the 10.3.3 update last night. After it downloaded, it looked like it was installing, then I got a error message saying that it was unable to install the update, and that I should choose "just download" or something similar from the menu, and then try manually installing the update after that. I looked in the tasks and saw that I had classic running, so I thought it would be a good idea to clear that and everything else out before I tried installing it again. So I restart my computer. When the screen comes up with the apple on top and everything loading, it hangs at "login screen starting". It won't go any further. I've restarted more times than I can remember. I got the Panther UPGRADE disk out, repaired permissions, restarted. Same thing. So I tried to do an archive and install. When I try to select the HD, it says that it cannot install on this drive because there isn't a previous version of Mac OS X on it.

Sorry for the long post, but I really need some help with this.

Thanks in advance

Peace

That's exactly what happened to my iBook, anyone else had such experience?
 
after installing the .3 patch, when i ran the disk utility there always this msg of
Determining correct file permissions.
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./System/Library/Filesystems/cd9660.fs/cd9660.util. New permissions are 33261
The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume


Is this normal?? i've ran the repair for like million times, and each time it shows this msg. The computer seems a bit unstable too.
 
i installed the update yesterday, during install i got this nice "please reboot your computer now" screen, and now my pb starts up showing me the friendly apple being replaced by an unfriendly crossed circle sign. does anyone know if the system is completley f***** up or if there's still hope?

thanks

btw: repair disc and file permissions from install cd didn't help
 
Repairing permissions, removing printers

mangis said:
Yes, my hp printer had the same problem a while ago. The fix was to delete the CANON drivers from the library. It did work, don't ask me why.
Thanks, I removed every printer file other than Epson and HP (the two brands I have). I also repaired permissions, and when I tried again it worked.

Unfortunately, I didn't try repairing permissions earlier, so I don't know if it was that, the printer files, or a combination of the two that did the trick.
 
busasa said:
after installing the .3 patch, when i ran the disk utility there always this msg of
Determining correct file permissions.
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./System/Library/Filesystems/cd9660.fs/cd9660.util. New permissions are 33261
The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume

I have the same phenomenon on all of my Macs (4)! Very odd!

I also installed the driver for my hp deskjet 5550 from hp on one of them. Now everytime after I used the printer it has to "repair" file permissions for all files related to the driver... What the f...?

Other than that I don't have any problems with the Update so far. Only thing was that my system on my upgraded Quicksilver (1.2GHz Sonnet Tech.) froze when I wanted to reboot after installing the update. But since then it is running just fine.

I am not sure what to think about all that...

groovebuster
 
garybooberry said:
XBench 10.3.2 - 137 (average of three runs)
Xbench 10.3.3 - 142 (average of three runs)

:D

My XBench scores are about 1-5 points lower :( However, everything has increased pretty dramatically in every aspect except disk performance! I'm chalking this up to defragmentation. I thought I had once seen a defrag program somewhere on my computer, does anyone know if this exists? I can't find one now....

10.3.3 finally makes my computer snappy again like it was when I first got it....and it reverting my boot time to the speed it used to be....I think it might've actually gotten a little faster in the process as well (can't find where I wrote it down)....I dropped about 40 seconds off of my boot time, including logging-in, in 10.3.2!

Also does anyone know how to stop internet connect from asking me if I want to stay online!? It's really freaking annoying....I hated it back in the day when AOL did that now internet connect is doing it. It never did it when USB Bluetooth Modem Adapter was selected instead of Internal Modem, even though they both used the same thing, but since I've altered the order of my networking devices, IC has asked me this question periodically. I don't want to have to change it back, anyone have any ideas?
 
Dloomer I HAD the exact same problem.

dloomer said:
So far Baron's solution is the only way I can get my SMB working now that I have 10.3.3 -- but I'll take it. My problem was not with domain name/IP, it works either way; it's more that in the Network browser it keeps giving me "original item could not be found." Even though OX X created this alias and thus it should KNOW where the original item is.


The problem is samba and windows are both fighting to be the local master browser. I have windows xp, mandrake linux and os x all fighting it out. I was able to get the XP and linux to play nice but no matter how i tweaked the smb.conf os x just wouldn't let me browse. so i did 2 simple things:
#1 deleted everything in the /var/automount/ directory
#2 made a seperate workgroup for my 17"PB so i have HOME for the xp and linux and HOMEMAC for os x.
The XP is the local master browser for the HOME work group as well as the domain master browser and os x is the local master for the HOMEMAC group. leave the IPs on the same subnet so you don't have to worry about remote anouncements. Give it a try.. it can't hurt. If you do try it run "nmblookup -M -- -" from the terminal i bet it tells you it can't find the master browser. After you change it, it should come back something like this:
mac:~ ej$ nmblookup -M -- -
querying __MSBROWSE__ on 192.168.1.255
192.168.1.1 __MSBROWSE__<01>

hope it helps
 
zync said:
Also does anyone know how to stop internet connect from asking me if I want to stay online!? It's really freaking annoying....I hated it back in the day when AOL did that now internet connect is doing it. It never did it when USB Bluetooth Modem Adapter was selected instead of Internal Modem, even though they both used the same thing, but since I've altered the order of my networking devices, IC has asked me this question periodically. I don't want to have to change it back, anyone have any ideas?
Go to System Preferences and go to Network. In the "show" drop down menu, select "Internal Modem". Then, you will see 4 buttons right under the menu; pick PPP. Click on the "PPP Options..." button. From the drop down menu that appears, uncheck "Prompt every __ minutes to maintain connection", and click okay. Click apply now in the Network preference, and everything should work.
 
avatars

ok i know this is totally off topic, but how the hell do I make a gif icon to be my avatar?! at the avatar tab on my user profile it only says "No Avatar Specified" and there is no check boxes or any other buttons I could use to specify an avatar. :p
 

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Windowlicker said:
ok i know this is totally off topic, but how the hell do I make a gif icon to be my avatar?! at the avatar tab on my user profile it only says "No Avatar Specified" and there is no check boxes or any other buttons I could use to specify an avatar. :p
You need to have 500+ posts before you can have an avatar. Macrumors rule!
 
this thread is incredibly long and i've read much of it...

but does anybody know why there are so many "negatives" attached to this news report? very curious about this...perhaps macrumors team keeps track of IP's or something on this? is it for real?

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I updated to 10.3.3 with no problems via sw update. seems a tad faster now but not enough to make me be too excited.
 
10.3.3 KILLED my 15" 1.25

luke_s said:
i installed the update yesterday, during install i got this nice "please reboot your computer now" screen, and now my pb starts up showing me the friendly apple being replaced by an unfriendly crossed circle sign. does anyone know if the system is completley f***** up or if there's still hope?

thanks

btw: repair disc and file permissions from install cd didn't help

Here's a screenshot, Help!
 

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erron said:
The problem is samba and windows are both fighting to be the local master browser. I have windows xp, mandrake linux and os x all fighting it out. I was able to get the XP and linux to play nice but no matter how i tweaked the smb.conf os x just wouldn't let me browse. so i did 2 simple things:
#1 deleted everything in the /var/automount/ directory
#2 made a seperate workgroup for my 17"PB so i have HOME for the xp and linux and HOMEMAC for os x.
The XP is the local master browser for the HOME work group as well as the domain master browser and os x is the local master for the HOMEMAC group. leave the IPs on the same subnet so you don't have to worry about remote anouncements. Give it a try.. it can't hurt. If you do try it run "nmblookup -M -- -" from the terminal i bet it tells you it can't find the master browser. After you change it, it should come back something like this:
mac:~ ej$ nmblookup -M -- -
querying __MSBROWSE__ on 192.168.1.255
192.168.1.1 __MSBROWSE__<01>

hope it helps

I just cranked up the 'os level' and set 'preferred master' to 'yes' in my Mac's /etc/smb.conf file to make sure that the Mac always won browser elections against my PCs. My Mac's essentially the server on my network anyway -- it does the NAT'ing and firewalling for the LAN. With my current setup, the /var/log/samba/log.nmbd file shows that it's always acting as the master browser.

... but as I mentioned in an earlier post, netbios computer names aren't getting resolved, so I can't connect via the Network browser in the Finder, but I can connect using an IP address and Go -> Connect to Server.

Still not got around to investigating how name resolution works on OS X's implementation. Hopefully it's the same as other Unixes, and all I've got to do is check the resolve order setting in the samba config file....

fingers crossed, eh.
 
erron said:
The problem is samba and windows are both fighting to be the local master browser. I have windows xp, mandrake linux and os x all fighting it out. I was able to get the XP and linux to play nice but no matter how i tweaked the smb.conf os x just wouldn't let me browse. so i did 2 simple things:
#1 deleted everything in the /var/automount/ directory
#2 made a seperate workgroup for my 17"PB so i have HOME for the xp and linux and HOMEMAC for os x.
The XP is the local master browser for the HOME work group as well as the domain master browser and os x is the local master for the HOMEMAC group. leave the IPs on the same subnet so you don't have to worry about remote anouncements. Give it a try.. it can't hurt. If you do try it run "nmblookup -M -- -" from the terminal i bet it tells you it can't find the master browser. After you change it, it should come back something like this:
mac:~ ej$ nmblookup -M -- -
querying __MSBROWSE__ on 192.168.1.255
192.168.1.1 __MSBROWSE__<01>

hope it helps

Thanks erron. I'll try those, although even without trying them when I issue that command I get:

er$ nmblookup -M -- -
querying __MSBROWSE__ on 10.0.0.255
10.0.0.39 __MSBROWSE__<01>

And browsing still doesn't work. Oh well, like I said, I've adopted the Windows mentality and accepted mediocrity, so I'm not too bent out of shape over it.
 
usb thumb drive problems

anyone else having problems getting a usb thumb drive to mount to the desktop. it shows up under the system profiler when it's plugged in, but won't show up on the desktop. worked perfectly until 10.3.3. any help is appreciated. :confused:
 
XnavxeMiyyep said:
Go to System Preferences and go to Network. In the "show" drop down menu, select "Internal Modem". Then, you will see 4 buttons right under the menu; pick PPP. Click on the "PPP Options..." button. From the drop down menu that appears, uncheck "Prompt every __ minutes to maintain connection", and click okay. Click apply now in the Network preference, and everything should work.

Thank you very much...I didn't even think of that since I never use PPP because of AOL (at least I didn't think AOL used PPP)! I never even noticed the PPP Options button, had I seen that it would've been promptly disabled!
 
I woke up to my first kernal panic

My 17" Powerbook with 1 gig of RAM is 3 months old and after updating the system to 10.3.3 I woke up to my first Kernal Panic. Has anyone else had this problem?
 
kasei said:
My 17" Powerbook with 1 gig of RAM is 3 months old and after updating the system to 10.3.3 I woke up to my first Kernal Panic. Has anyone else had this problem?

I updated to 10.3.3 at the local Apple Store, using their T-1. The nearly 60 meg file via dialup would have been fruitless.

While I was there, two customers brought in their recent model laptops with similar problems that you describe.

Before and after you download and install software updaters:

REPAIR PERMISSIONS, REPAIR PERMISSIONS, REPAIR PERMISSIONS !!!
 
USB drives

hesitaliandad said:
anyone else having problems getting a usb thumb drive to mount to the desktop. it shows up under the system profiler when it's plugged in, but won't show up on the desktop. worked perfectly until 10.3.3. any help is appreciated. :confused:
There does appear to be a "USB Drive" bug of some sort affecting SOME Macs.

Can't really help you because you did NOT fill out your User PROFILE when you joined / have NOT kept your Profile up to date.
https://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?userid=19717

In the Menu bar to the far left, click on User CP, then Click on Edit User Profile and Edit Signature (where you can tell everyone what computers you have) and do the deeds.

However, you did run REPAIR DISK PERMISSION, right?
 
ZildjianKX said:
Anyone else notice their idle CPU usage seems to be a lot higher now?

I hope that it won't be too much, don't want to decrease my folding.
 
Am I the only one?

Hello everyone.

Am I the only one with fan-problems when using 10.3.3? It just keeps blowing and blowing. I have a PB rev a 12" 867MHz 640 mb ram.

Now I'm back at 10.3.1...
 
i love it!

10.3.3 is sooooo fast on my PB (c below). It starts up faster than my 'hacked' ver of 10.3.2. I love the new safari! It finally convinced me to switch completely from IE. Mail hasnt crashed yet either! It's now handling my httpmail bundle perfectly. I have had no programs crash, and my Darwin kernel is no at 7.3.0. I have two questions:

1. I have the hardware icon in sys prefs. is there a way to set the CPU to auto, instead of just nap or not nap? if its not on nap, it runs constantly. (theres a tip for the ppl with the fan crzy PBs)
2. I shut the lid while my PB was shutting down. When I opened it, the screen had four bars on it, alternating white and black. then a bar that looked like an OS X bar came up and had three buttons on it, resembling the bottom of the login window (sleep, restart, shut down). Was that a kernel panic? If so, thats my first one in upgrading continuously since i got my PB in July of 2003 (thats 10.2.3-10.2.5-10.2.6-10.2.7-10.2.8-10.3.0-10.3.1-10.3.2-10.3.3)
3. wheres the pref in safari to make it act like MSIE if a site rejects it because its safari and not IE?

:confused:
 
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