The Mac OS X Gridrunner++ Beta Test Thread **V 0.921**

super charlie · Post by **super charlie** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:34 pm 0

page doesnt load here either.

Jimaroid · Post by **Jimaroid** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:48 pm 0

Page loads fine for me, but it's reporting my Mac specs wrong?

Should be 867MHz, not 533. Weird.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:57 pm 0

gravy wrote: Come on Rod, you can do better than that

Blimey. Time to put a bit of practice in. The page loads fine here, and my specs are correct too.

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:05 pm 0

I'm using the sysctl interface to get machine specs and the one I post is hw.cpufrequency

I thiink that this returns the current cpu frequency which could be lower than the max frequency if you're running from battery and your machine is trying to conserve power.

On the command line try

sysctl hw.cpufrequency

and

sysctl hw.cpufrequency_max

Hopefully hw.cpufrequency_max will return 867mhz

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:06 pm 0

And the page is currently served of my G5 from my home ADSL which isn't particularly robust.

The PHP I wrote to capture score / machine info uses features from PHP 5.0 that aren't availabel on PHP 4 which I have on my server in London.

I'm looking into a possible solution now

super charlie · Post by **super charlie** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:10 pm 0

nope, still not working

Surfr · Post by **Surfr** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:26 pm 0

no luck here either:

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dof@nasty dof $ host dev.xengroup.com
dev.xengroup.com has address 62.188.196.34
dof@nasty dof $ ping 62.188.196.34
PING 62.188.196.34 (62.188.196.34) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 62.188.196.34 ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 7998ms

Jimaroid · Post by **Jimaroid** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:57 pm 0

gravy wrote:I'm using the sysctl interface to get machine specs and the one I post is hw.cpufrequency

...

Hopefully hw.cpufrequency_max will return 867mhz

It didn't! Sysctl was reporting 533, so after a quick scan around the internet I reset the PMU (Power Management Unit) and it's now reporting the correct value. According to an article I found on Mac Fixit, it's an observed oddity.

Phew - I spent a good ten minutes thinking my Mac was broken.

romanista · Post by **romanista** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:57 pm 0

well i'll be doing a review for the dutch/belgian mac games website macgames.be when it is ready (free review copy ? ), to get it a bit more well known over here...

gravy are you doing it all by yourself, or does yak himself does a lot as well?

oh and can't you make window enclose the game instead of the black areas left and right?

rick

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:57 pm 0

Surfr wrote:no luck here either:

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dof@nasty dof $ host dev.xengroup.com
dev.xengroup.com has address 62.188.196.34
dof@nasty dof $ ping 62.188.196.34
PING 62.188.196.34 (62.188.196.34) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 62.188.196.34 ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 7998ms

Yeah, the router doesn't ping

ravuya · Post by **ravuya** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 4:05 pm 0

Runs a wee bit better (100% instead of 101-103%)

Graar. Page won't work for me either. I wanted to see if my abysmal 787K score made any records.

skab · Post by **skab** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:09 pm 0

Worked fine with some test game, Model and CPU speed are absolutely accurate. Just the score sucks

Oh, and what PHP5 exclusive features do you use for something straight like that? The built-in SQL-DB?

Surfr · Post by **Surfr** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:35 pm 0

Webpage not working from home either

Game is ace on the powerbook though and I'm loving it even on the touchpad

matt · Post by **matt** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:46 pm 0

arron wrote:I really need a mac

(Birthday thursday after next..I wonder if I should buy one then?)

Play the PC version!

matt

super charlie · Post by **super charlie** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:49 pm 0

matt wrote:
arron wrote:I really need a mac

(Birthday thursday after next..I wonder if I should buy one then?)
Play the PC version!

matt

no, dont listen to him, buy a mac. Theyre loverly

cheers
charlie

YakYak

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