I, too, purchased the GOG version of Arx Fatalis. I installed the program yesterday without any difficulty.
The game does play, but as Clocknova posted, any time there is text on the screen (like during character creation) the game drops down to about 5% of its normal speed. The performance is so poor that the mouse cursor jumps all over the place while attempting to carefully maneuver it around the screen.
I checked the logs and there are a large number of errors related to the DIB engine. An example being:
fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_ClientSideDIBCopy potential optimization: client-side compressed DIB copy
The log is spammed with hundreds, if not thousands, of these messages.
The game does, however, work. Just very, very slowly when having to deal with the way the game handles fonts (and possibly other screen overlays).
The only other problem that I've encountered is that the game crashes whenever I attempt to set resolution above 1024x768. In theory (and in practice according to posters on the GOG forum and elsewhere on the internet) the game fully supports a variety of resolutions, including widescreen ones. In fact, the game offers several higher and widescreen resolutions in its graphical configuration dropdown list of options. Selecting higher modes, such as 1152x720 or 1280x800 lead to the following error (and immediate crash):
1. The screen starts flickering quickly between the normal screen and a vertically inverted one of the same image.
2. This error message is then posted to the log, around 30 times:
fixme:d3d_texture:basetexture_apply_state_changes Unrecognized or unsupported MAGFILTER* value 4
Other than those two issues, the game does run so long as you keep it in 800x600 or 1024x768 resolution, and can suffer through the painful slowdowns associated with having text on screen.
Following is a copy of the full log, in case there's anything of value in it for troubleshooting:
Thank you very much to anyone who might have ideas on how to improve how the program functions, or address any of the err: or fixme: issues in the log.
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Game Details:
Arx Fatalis For Mac Pc
Welcome to the “Arx Fatalis” for Mac game page.This page contains information + tools how to port Arx Fatalis so you can play it on your Mac just like a normal application using Crossover. So if you haven’t Crossover yet, then sign up here and buy the program or if you want to test it first, for the 14 days trial. Or use the Porting Kit alternative.
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Use this CrossTie… to install the GOG game into Crossover
Make sure Crossover is installed before downloading/running the CrossTie. Or use Porting Kit.
Game description:
The world of Arx is wrought with turmoil, brought to the brink of destruction by a violent war. The sun has disappeared from overhead to shroud the world in eternal darkness forcing communities to begin inhabiting the underground mines. But as food and drink becomes scarce, the wars become even more violent as each race struggles for survival.
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Additional Port Information:
Graphical Cards Tested: NVIDIA Geforce GT 640M graphics card, AMD Radeon 6770M
OSX 10.7.5 and 10.8.2+ compatible?: Yes
Whats tested: Playing about an hour, GOG.com version of the game
Does Multiplayer work?: Not tested, but most likely it does.
Known issues: None that i know of…
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