Flightgear on mac manual#
Flightgear on mac software#
Flightgear on mac mac#

I agree you should be able to run FG 2.8+ on that system. Note: If you did not get a reponse, even after 7 days, you may want to check out the FlightGear mailing lists to ask your question there. If you are seeing corrupted/broken textures, please see this article. To run FlightGear on old computers with bad OpenGL support, please take a look at this wiki article. If you experience FlightGear crashes, please report a bug using the issue tracker (can be also used for feature requests). please upload a screenshot of the problem.

Flightgear on mac mac#

copy&paste your commandline (tick the 'Show commandline box on the last page of FGRun or the 'Others' section on the Mac launcher). is there any output printed to the console (black window)? does the problem occur with any aircraft, at any airport?

what OS (Windows Xp/Vista, Mac etc.) are you running? Make sure to include answers to at least the following questions in your initial post. *I'm one of those old-fasioned people who believe that computers are supposed to make life less complex and more enjoyable, not the other way around.In order to help you, we need to know a lot of information.

Flightgear on mac software#

Found no other relevant documentation on the DMG, just some bible quotes, which were absolutely no use under the circumstances (praying DIDN'T help.).ДЇrankly, if this software is actually used by anyone in the groves of academe doing serious research, I'm never flying again! For now, I'd suggest sticking with Warbirds or X-Plane they may not be open source, but they work. The other problems I can forgive as development issues, but this is just plain carelessness. Installation: 'Drag the FlightGear folder to Applications' say the (rather meagre) installation notes: this I tried, and got a permissions error.

Flightgear on mac manual#

Its harder to make a comment on the flight models, since my machine (eMac 700MHz, 32MB nVidia, fine according to the limited system specs on the HTML manual pages) couldn't manage more than about 8 fps (guessing, the fps display didn't seem to work), and the poor UI design meant that changing the settings was too much of a chore*. For me, detecting collisions with ground objects is a major part of the 'simulation' aspect of any flight sim. Physics: I managed to roll through the terminal building on a take-off run, did an inverted loop (in a 707!) and flew straight through the ground, which then disappeared leaving only a black dot. Major settings like screen resolution and controller options seem to be inaccessable from inside the game. Not just the 'ported-from-UNIX-ugly-but-works' style, I mean pull-down menus that don't do anything except tell you to use an XML editor to edit the preference files (hacking is fun, but shouldn't be mandatory).

Stability: takes a long time to load (about 2 minutes) and appears to be the pizza of death, but after the screen changes resolution and aspect ratio a few times it seems to work reasonably well (is the splash screen supposed to tear up like that?). Sound: Good, but then flight sims aren't the most complex soundtracks on the planet. Graphics: OK close to MSFS (pretty good for freeware, in other words). I'm not sure this should even be a beta release yet.ДЇirst the good news.