The Powder Toy

FPS capped at 15 (Mac)

  • Brandonator365     15th Jul 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    So, I saw my friend playing Powder Toy and I decided I wanted to try to play it too, so I got the game and tried to play. It worked fine, or at least I thought it did, but then I saw that my friend could run it at 60 fps, while I was locked at 15. It really ruins the gameplay and makes it hard to do anything. I'm running on a 5k Mac with a 3.3 GHz Intel Core i5 processor. There is no reason for my game to be running at this low of a frame rate. As a complete noob to this game, I honestly have no idea how to do much of anything, but even when the screen is blank, I'm locked at 15 fps. I tried increasing the max FPS in the config, but it was already at 10000, and trying to make it any higher crashed my game when it first started. Someone, anyone, please help!

  • Simon     15th Jul 2016 Administrator 0 Permalink
    What version of the game have you downloaded? You can see this number in the top right when you start the game.

    What setting in the config are you changing?
  • Brandonator365     15th Jul 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    @Simon (View Post)

    I'm using Version 91.3, and I was changing the maxfps in powder.pref. The top one, anyways. After deleting the config file, it worked again, but my FPS is still locked at 15.

    Edited 2 times by Brandonator365. Last: 15th Jul 2016
  • jacob1     15th Jul 2016 Developer 0 Permalink
    @Brandonator365 (View Post)
    Do you have something in autorun.lua? It might be doing something incorrectly, and setting the max fps to 15. Delete it if you don't need it.

    You can also go into the console and type tpt.setfpscap(60) for the normal limit or tpt.setfpscap(2) for unlimited.

    Also, powder.pref has no max fps setting. So i'm not sure what you were changing ...
    Edited once by jacob1. Last: 15th Jul 2016
  • Brandonator365     15th Jul 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    @jacob1 (View Post)

     I don't even have an autorun.lua, and using that console command did nothing. I'm so confused.

  • jacob1     15th Jul 2016 Developer 0 Permalink
    Well your problem doesn't make any sense to me then ....

    Maybe try this version? http://starcatcher.us/TPT/

    There isn't anything specific to your problem in it, but it is using a better compiler.
  • Brandonator365     16th Jul 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    Powder Snapshot instantly crashes. I now know what I think the problem is. I'm running a beta version of MacOS. (Sierra) This may be the cause, but I'm not sure. Either way, problem persists.

  • jacob1     16th Jul 2016 Developer 0 Permalink
    @Brandonator365 (View Post)
    New versions of OS X tend to break the game every new update, which is annoying :|

    Do you get a crash report, that would be extremely useful. Especially if i'm going to release something like that as a new update soon.
  • Brandonator365     16th Jul 2016 Member 0 Permalink

    I do get a crash report. I will include it here.

     

    Process: powder-x [5387]
    Path: /Users/USER/Desktop/Powder Snapshot.app/Contents/MacOS/powder-x
    Identifier: uk.org.powdertoy.snapshot
    Version: MAJOR_VERSION (FULL_VERSION)
    Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
    Parent Process: ??? [1]
    Responsible: powder-x [5387]
    User ID: 503

    Date/Time: 2016-07-16 11:25:04.445 -0400
    OS Version: Mac OS X 10.12 (16A238m)
    Report Version: 12
    Anonymous UUID: 0022A528-66FA-F734-7180-4A9C6A79FD8A


    Time Awake Since Boot: 4700 seconds

    System Integrity Protection: enabled

    Crashed Thread: 0

    Exception Type: EXC_CRASH
    Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
    Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

    Termination Reason: DYLD, [0x1] Library missing

    Application Specific Information:
    dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

    Dyld Error Message:
    Library not loaded: /home/*/libSDL-1.2.0.dylib
    Referenced from: /Users/USER/Desktop/Powder Snapshot.app/Contents/MacOS/powder-x
    Reason: image not found

    Binary Images:
    0x100000000 - 0x1003d4fff +uk.org.powdertoy.snapshot (MAJOR_VERSION - FULL_VERSION) <A79F8B9B-1A44-37FD-A119-FAB7D4A37916> /Users/USER/Desktop/Powder Snapshot.app/Contents/MacOS/powder-x
    0x10e81b000 - 0x10e858017 dyld (419) <1F2C47DA-C09C-3B26-B512-DB80CAD2D682> /usr/lib/dyld
    0x7fff8a84f000 - 0x7fff8a84ffff com.apple.ApplicationServices (48 - 48) <1A07946A-192A-39F8-8898-D87560386AB0> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices
    0x7fff8ad6e000 - 0x7fff8af78fff com.apple.audio.toolbox.AudioToolbox (1.14 - 1.14) <2AE297A2-C65C-31F4-A8C6-D2ED19969032> /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/Versions/A/AudioToolbox
    0x7fff8af79000 - 0x7fff8af79fff com.apple.audio.units.AudioUnit (1.14 - 1.14) <09014BBE-8E31-32C6-9B79-C1BFBFFDC187> /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Versions/A/AudioUnit
    0x7fff8b415000 - 0x7fff8b415fff com.apple.Carbon (154 - 157) <455EBC62-C9CD-3329-AB82-A1475961E96D> /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Carbon
    0x7fff8b8c3000 - 0x7fff8b8c3fff com.apple.Cocoa (6.11 - 22) <75BBE84D-9368-303A-AF34-5FB94043DFE1> /System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/A/Cocoa
    0x7fff8dd20000 - 0x7fff8ddb2fff com.apple.framework.IOKit (2.0.2 - 1310) <07D16152-0AEB-335C-84C7-B3FC0B5A01CC> /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit
    0x7fff90d78000 - 0x7fff90d86fff com.apple.opengl (12.2.21 - 12.2.21) <749D5D32-CDCD-3C07-9A3D-920F45836481> /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL

    Model: iMac17,1, BootROM IM171.0105.B08, 4 processors, Intel Core i5, 3.3 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 2.34f2
    Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 M395, AMD Radeon R9 M395, PCIe, 2048 MB
    Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1867 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D54343531533642465238412D52442020
    Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1867 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D54343531533642465238412D52442020
    AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x14A), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.21.167.2.1a2)
    Bluetooth: Version 5.0.0d76, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
    Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
    Serial ATA Device: APPLE HDD ST2000DM001, 2 TB
    Serial ATA Device: APPLE SSD SM0128G, 121.33 GB
    USB Device: USB 3.0 Bus
    USB Device: USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse
    USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
    USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
    Thunderbolt Bus: iMac, Apple Inc., 28.1

     

    I'm no genius at reading these things, but it seems there is a problem with an image (disk image?) not being found and a library being missing or something. MacOS Sierra hasn't been officially released yet, though, which is probably why I'm one of the only people having this problem. You might not even have to fix anything. It might get fixed when Apple updates the beta. Anyways, do what you can.

     

    The original game (not the snapshot) doesn't crash, but is still locked at 15 FPS.

    Edited once by Brandonator365. Last: 16th Jul 2016
  • jacob1     16th Jul 2016 Developer 0 Permalink
    @Brandonator365 (View Post)
    I see, thanks. I know exactly what the problem is (it is that SDL is missing). SDL isn't supposed to be missing, hmm ...
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