I recently started playing KoDP again -- (Dual 450 G4, OS 10.3.2, 384 Mb RAM, I think Classic is 9.2.2) -- and I noticed some oddities, as well. While it didn't seem that the game ran slower, there were a number of points where the GUI would "stick" -- the game would continue (you could hear the music change when an event came up), but the previous screen wouldn't go away. The onscreen buttons would still function sometimes, but I'd have to click around to choose a random option and get the game to move on. (This also happened during the "you've won the game" sequence of images -- the first time I viewed it, the images loaded very slowly, and hung a bit after the music finished. The second time, it ran just fine, go fig -- I'd loaded from a save game).
Wondering if there's a Classic extension that needs to be enabled or disabled, perhaps? I didn't see much of an improvement after increasing the app's memory, either.
The only recommendation I can make is to save frequently, just in case you get a hang, or get really annoyed waiting for the graphic to load.
On Feb 19, 2004, at 4:49 PM, Kristian Radford wrote:
> I've recently upgraded my laptop to a 14 inch iBook G4
> (I previously had a lime green clamshell), with OS
> 10.3.2, 640 mg ram, etc., and I tried to load my old
> KoDP game in classic. On my previous computer I had
> been restarting into OS 9 since the game seemed to be
> a bit more stable that way (instead of running through
> classic), but with 10.3 that's not possible. I
> eventually gave up on it since scenes were taking
> anywhere between 5 seconds and 5 minutes to load,
> including just clicking a ring member for advice. I'm
> hoping to finish the game I was playing on my old
> laptop as soon as possible, so I can get rid of it,
> and just play KoDP on PC, at the point where I'm
> trying to unite all the tribes. Anyway, I digress. Has
> anyone had similar speed problems? It's a real
> headache.
>
> Kristian
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