See the thread from Radi8 called Help Me - - the same thing is now happening to me. All versions, modified and backup, plain, vanilla original, crash about 5 or 10 seconds after I launch them, mostly (?only) after I start moving my mouse.

I haven't touched a single file in TT for a week. I didn't update any Mac files, OS, or software since yesterday. (I think good ol Microsoft did an autoupdate of Office this morning).

And I read Cloud's post there - - there is only one OS on the Mac, Cloud, and all processes run on it.

Helppppp. TIA, MkIV

Are you on 10.4.7?

^^ What Cloud was referring to is a little tool called the Task Manager. It shows all applications, processes, CPU usage, memory usage, etc.

Do Macs have something like this?

Last edited: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 8:11:49 PM

@ Jacob. Yep. Does this help?

@ Player, Yep, it's called Activity Monitor and is much the same. How does that help me?

Thanks, MkIV

Also FWIW I finally broke down (after 2 years) and ordered Halo. I can't take this withdrawal, the sweats, the shakes, the dry heaves, and the visions of little green tanks running and bounching over the walls...

After ThinkTanks crashes, check to see if it is still running. The process might still be running in the background even though it appears that ThinkTanks has closed.

Oh, thanks. No, it's not running in the background. The Mac reports it has unexpectedly quit, too, a euphemism for "crashed hard."

The weird part is it doesn't crash until I move my mouse over a button. If I hit Return to accept my default identity, and then Return again to go to QuickPlay (yawn) it then crashes at once.

As Radi8 noted, this even happens with a brand new demo version I just downloaded after the problem started, so it isn't something I did (or that just happened) to my version of the game.

I haven't heard from BraveTree/GG help on this. I guess I'll try the usual fixes on my Mac and if it doesn't come back, I'll see you all in Halo-land.

MkIV

I play Halo as well, it aint bad.. Only tons of whiners, swearers and stuff..
Anyway, I have the solution for your problem (I had the same thing and I also told Radi8 what to do..)

OM's Thread

Sct

Thanks, S-man,

You're right, it's the same old Tiger conflict, this time causing a crash instead of just absence of sound.

That thread is pretty confusing (aren't they all). In what follows, note I *already* had an OpenAL.disabled folder in my System/Library/Frameworks folder from the last time I did this fix, so I didn't have to do the Terminal commands. What I did was just drag the System/Library/Frameworks folder named OpenAL.framework to the desktop (which makes a copy) and then select the original and drag it to the trash. As noted in OM's thread, the simple drag-and-drop of the ThinkTanks version of the framework didn't work, but trashing it did. The trash move required an admin password.

Now I'll see if I get more Halo time and less TT time; still, as you all know, I'm a TT addict. So thanks again for this great clue.

MkIV