Subset Games Forum

I own the Mac version of FTL which I bought from the main site option.

I will presume my mac's specs are below minimum as the game is very laggy, but I got enough patience to live with it.

I did however click fullscreen in the options and restarted, and now when I boot up the game, after the loading bar screen, it takes me to a white rectangle with black borders and the main menu music plays normally, and well, it's completely unworkable to find the option and unclick fullscreen. Command~m doesn't minimize it. Is there a way to manually revert it back to windowed outside the game?

Hello!

Sorry about the problem. Do you know the exact specs of your Mac?

You can go to ~/Library/Application Support/FasterThanLight/ and find "settings.ini" Just delete that file and load up the game and it'll revert to windowed. To be slightly fancier, edit the file and make it so "fullscreen=0"

Hope that helps

Thanks that worked!

Mac OS X 10.6.8
2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Chipset Model: ATY, RadeonX1600

But yeah, my mac is ancient at this point, 1st gen Intel.

Just thought I'd share this.

Since then, I've had the following happen.

I noticed it worked fine under my Windows partition using boot camp.

I also had a harddrive failure awhile ago, restored it. Decided to apply a bandaid fix to my mac's failing vram by disabling Quartz Extreme using this in terminal:

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver GLCompositor -dict tileHeight -int 0 tileWidth -int 0

Now it runs at intended framerate but tears all over the place, but still better I guess than playing at 5 frames per second.

Ok, I have a Mac book pro 8 gigs of ram hd retina display with an sad drive. When I went in to full screen mode it won't let me click the quit game option. I can't seem to force quit and when I power off the Mac it automatically loads the game.

Can anyone help?

Vec wrote:Ok, I have a Mac book pro 8 gigs of ram hd retina display with an sad drive. When I went in to full screen mode it won't let me click the quit game option. I can't seem to force quit and when I power off the Mac it automatically loads the game.

Can anyone help?

I can.

I had the same problem.

Simply delete the folder ~/Library/Application\ Support/FasterThanLight and the game will reset to default settings.

If that doesn't work, try looking at the settings file, which is generated on launch, and located in the very same folder, you just deleted (but which reappears when you launch the game).

I've tried all the different settings and the only mode which seems to work properly on a MBP retina is windowed.

For macbook retina displays, the folks at Frozenbyte ran into a similar problem and posted a workaround for Trine 2. It's worked for most people:

"If you’re experiencing this problem, first try disabling Automatic Graphics Switching in the Energy Saver section of System Preferences, or using gfxCardStatus to switch to Discrete Only mode"