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[Dwarfler]

First: I love this game.  Thank you, thank you for finally releasing it for Mac OS X.  I have been drooling over it for quite some time.

I notice that after having the Dwarf Fortress application running for awhile, I sometimes see artifacts flickering on and off on random parts of the DF screen.  They're usually little yellow blocks.  If I save, quit and start again, they go away.

I have also experienced a couple of odd freezes, where everything completely locks up.  The mouse is unresponsive, keyboard input is ignored, etc.  This never happened before I started playing DF and it only happens when the application is running (altho it doesn't have to be in the foreground), so I suspect it is related to the game.  It does not appear to be directly related to any particular in-game action or event.

Is there any log file or other info I could pass along that would make these problems easier to debug?

[Toady One]

I don't have any ideas.  There's nothing it logs that will help in this case.  If anybody has any further reports or clues on this one, I'd welcome them of course.

[Jonathan S. Fox]

This isn't really helpful, but I can definitely report that I haven't seen this kind of thing on my own Intel Mac. That sucks though, so I hope the cause (and then the solution) is found.

[Derakon]

It's remotely possible that the Console will have something (Applications/Utilities/Console) even though DF doesn't log anything itself. Worth taking a look, anyway.

For what it's worth, I've had no crashing problems on my iMac.

[Sunday]

Hey there,

I'm another Mac user.  Just downloaded the game a week or two ago and love it.

I had a similar problem when I started playing and I'm on a PPC mac.  However, it stopped happening after the first few days.