I've been trying to play Star Wars Battlefront on my 2008 iMac using 10.5.8 and Rosetta. Got the graphics settings maxed out and it runs well. But for some reason, I cannot select a resolution higher than 1024x768. The PC version of the game does not have this issue. Haven't tried this on any of my PowerPC Macs yet, so don't know what it's like on there. Does anyone know if Rosetta is the cause of this issue, or does the game just not know what to do?
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Rosetta hijacking resolution settings?
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I have the same game, and play it via Rosetta also, but don't have this issue at all. I play it at 1280x1024.
My guess is that it's a limitation of your GPU for that game.
My guess is that it's a limitation of your GPU for that game.
Could be, since the GPU is a few years newer than the game, so it might not know what to do with it.
I'm on 10.5.8, I could try Snow Leopard when I can get back to my computer and see if it does the same thing. What gets me is that I also play a game called Rainbow Six 3 using the same settings, and it's from early 2003. Resolution goes up to the display resolution, but not in Battlefront.
If you need Rosetta for things... it's much better in Snow Leopard. The performance of it in SL still surprises me to to this day.
Trying the game in SL gave me the same resolution problem. Not sure what's wrong then.
IMO, using anything older than SL on an intel mac is pointless. Especially Leopard, since SL is basically just a refined version.
Have you tried manually editing the game's configuration file?
I don't use them as my main OS anyway, I just installed the game on the Leopard partition because it has a lot more free space
I haven't, not sure what to look for because I don't know how the game files are set up