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Let Nature Flow from your Brush · By PixelForest

Flowscape on a Mac with an M1 chip?

A topic by reimalebario created Dec 05, 2020 Views: 702 Replies: 6
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Has anybody run Flowscape yet on one of the new Macs with the M1 chip? Did it run okay?

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I bought it and am trying to run it, but unfortunately I'm not finding it works.  It will open and run, but then there's nothing that can be done.  I can zoom in and out, but I have no options to edit the picture I'm seeing or rotate the screen.  I'm not sure if its just user error or some fundamental incompatibility problem.  Anyone else have any advice?

Hi Kbennin, 

I am thinking about buying an M1 Mac and wanted to ask you if you could already solve the issue. Would be great hearing back from you, because there is not much information out there. Best, Thowe

Hi.

It runs fine in Low texture detail (which is still pretty good). It's a little more unstable than it is on my Windows PC but while my PC's fan starts to sound like a jet engine after about 45 seconds, my M1 Mac doesn't even get hot to the touch, even when I'm running Photoshop and a bunch of other programs on my other screen.


Hi reimalebario, 

thanks a lot for your answer. I thought that it is not working at all, but your comment gives me a little bit of hope. Since the developer isn't publishing new updates this is quite something. Thanks a lot for it and the screenshot. 

Best, Thowe

You're welcome.

If you can stand the Discord interface at all, There's a lot of help and support available on the Discord channel.

There's still one annoying bug on the M1 which is that once you save a landscape, it returns you to a black screen/window, and you'll likely have to quit the app and reopen and load to keep working on it.

But I still prefer running it on my Mac Mini to running it on my PC (it's likely great on a pc with a good graphics card and a quieter cooling system but that's not the kind of pc I have).

Developer

Discord is the best place to solve issues with realtime chat

come over to there please

https://itch.io/t/559732/for-all-questions-and-bug-reports-join-the-flowscape-co...