Comment #1 originally posted by sfiera on 2010-12-09T07:57:14.000Z:

Performance is the main goal for the 0.4 release.

Comment #4 originally posted by sfiera on 2011-10-04T03:01:18.000Z:

Could you download Antares 0.4.0 [1] and see how it performs for you? I'm afraid it might not help as much as I'd hoped, but there have been some major changes under the hood.

[1] http://downloads.arescentral.org/Antares/Antares-0.4.0.zip

Comment #6 originally posted by Detrus on 2011-10-06T20:35:04.000Z:

On OSX 10.4 Tiger iBook G4 1MHz:

The keyboard settings were not preserved and impossible to change. Clicking on buttons with the mouse does not work. Only responds to keyboard. No numpad on laptop so changing key controls is impossible. From what I've gleaned the framerate might be better but can't confirm.

Also I don't use that computer anymore, no need to support it if I was the only user like that.

On OSX 10.6 2.3 GHz i5 MacBookPro everything runs and works as expected. Key settings not preserved but possible to change.

Comment #8 originally posted by aliciagray84 on 2011-11-11T01:22:57.000Z:

I'm using 10.4 on a 1.33ghz iBook G4, and I'm having the same problem. It's running crazy slow. Though I haven't checked if I'm able to change keyboard settings.

Comment #9 originally posted by sfiera on 2011-11-11T04:26:00.000Z:

Pulled out an old PBG4 (also 1.33GHz, I think) running 10.5. I can confirm it was unplayably slow, but I was able to change key settings. I don't have a 10.4 machine to verify, but it may be a 10.4/10.5 thing.

I did notice that the "About" screen, which used to stutter a lot, was very smooth (though it did flicker a little). I suspect that the slowness is not related to the speed of the CPU, but rather of the bus ferrying data to the GPU. Antares recreates OpenGL textures a lot more than it should; there's a bunch of reasons I want to fix that (slowness is one of them) but it has been slow going.

The reason your key settings were lost was that I changed the application ID from "net.sfiera.antares" to "org.arescentral.antares". You might be able to preserve the old settings by running defaults write org.arescentral.antares "$(defaults read net.sfiera.antares)" in Terminal.app, but it doesn't sound like it will matter to you.

It's helpful to know how about Tiger and other PPC users. One of the things that has kept me from upgrading my main machine to Lion is the knowledge that I'd have to drop support.

Comment #10 originally posted by ergzay on 2011-12-21T22:15:22.000Z:

So there is some bug that is happening that is causing the low framerate. For me as soon as the game starts the game is fast. Over the course of a few hours of playing the framerate gets slower and slower. You don't notice it happening, you just notice suddenly that things are getting very sluggish. If I quit and reopen the application the bug disappears. Returning to the main menu does not fix the problem. I am using latest release version.

Comment #11 originally posted by ergzay on 2011-12-21T22:16:04.000Z:

I should add I am using 10.6.8 on a MBP 2.5GHz with nvidia 8600M GT.

Comment #12 originally posted by ergzay on 2011-12-21T22:17:03.000Z:

The framerate starts at as far as I can tell full framerate (30 fps+) the framerate has gotten down to around 10fps before I've finally quit and restarted.

Comment #13 originally posted by sfiera on 2011-12-22T13:52:38.000Z:

Sounds like a memory leak. There's one small leak I've fixed since the latest release; I wouldn't have thought it could produce such a dramatic effect, but maybe over the course of a few hours it can have the effect you're seeing. Can you try the nightly build [1]?

[1] http://downloads.arescentral.org/Antares/Antares-nightly.zip

Comment #14 originally posted by sfiera on 2012-12-07T04:40:28.000Z:

In case either of the 10.4 users that posted above are still on the same machines: sorry, I'm not able to build Antares for Tiger any more. 0.6.0 (just released, and which should probably improve the graphics bus issue) is 10.6+ only. I'm going to close this issue out since it's unlikely to see any further improvements.