FYI: there are times when we wish for a "fully functional" Windows version as well;)

mac version is still pretty beta iirc. i think it's capped at 85 fps and the mouse input is utter shit

Yes and MAC mouse acceleration is a pain in the ass.

It's not that it's capped, it's just that it just won't stay above 85 fps very consistently. During the reloading bug, I would get 125 fps in between lag spikes, then slowly drop back down to 85 :(
But the input problems have been fucking me for years.

There is a way to block mac's standard mouse acceleration: Try USB Overdrive. It's a free software with the only disadvantage that it's begging for money at OSX startup. ^____^ http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/News.html

Didn't find anything to the other mac typical bugs like fps drops and config-tweaking-problems, though .___.

I found installing razer drivers also fixes the mouse (If you are using a razer mouse)

I think mac version is actually still in beta

for support questions try website-support (you'll prly get a copy-paste answer, but still might help), irc and contact sync/sponge directly (who knows if they'd answer you) or post a thread on the subscriber-only forum

Well sometimes SyncError browses ESReality. So he may find this thread if it's up long enough and tell us what they are planning to do in the future.

lol someone who still has hopes on id software

The Mac remains in a beta state. While I can't speak to the future, there currently is not a mac programmer on the development team to provide further support to the Mac client.

As I wrote in an other comment, you should convince your friends to make a win-partition (it's not that hard to do if you still have the win-drivers, which come with every macbook, and a proper windows version on cd/dvd); because even if the mac version gets patched and works properly you still have the most important issue left to fix, which is the broken mac-mouse-input. I literally promise every mac-user who plays on mac and switches to windows an accuracy increase of at least 10% for every weapon (except gl, and plasma and gauntlet ofc) after some (very short) time of getting used to the new mouse-feeling. And if some people think, that they are used to mac-mouse-behaviour or preferre it, or say it's more accurate, as some hardcore-mac-users claim - it's just not true. Since ql is a fps-game aiming and movement is such an important part, the game makes so much more fun, if you can control everything right.
P.S.: I don't think, that there are some virtual machines like wine or something on which you can play ql; it's in every case more work to make those things work than setting up a little windows partition. I tried to run a various games on different virtual machines and noone worked; I really believe there is no alternative to win or linux. Just don't play on mac!
P.P.S.: I played from 2010 on, every once in a while some ql on my mac, because I was too lazy setting up windows. Since a couple of month I've been running ql now on my win-partition and am pretty much addicted to the game again, because it's just is an other game - a better game - it's quake! It's only quake, if you don't run it on mac!! The only positive thing, I can think of, of playing on a mac may be, that it improves your timing and positioning since your aim and to a lesser extend your movement is shit, because again working your mouse feels like having a 0.5 second input-lagg.
P.P.P.S.: I forget to mention, that getting rid of the bad mouse-behaviour is absolutely impossible and for apple (the only ones who could actually fix it) it is absolutely out of the question of changing it. I have to smile every time i plug a mouse in my mac, when I'm on my mac partition, like right now, because it's just so ridicilous and obviously worse than in windows.

I think my friend tried a mouse fix to cut the acceleration and it worked for a while. Seems it doesn't now but don't know how it comes. Sad to see a windows partition is required for QL and only for QL, I guess that's what makes it boring to do.

yeah, but my point is that it has nothing to do with ql, but just with the failures of mac os. I doubt, that the mouse-accel even with a working fix (for me noone worked and I treid a couple) is as good as in windows with the 1 to 1 fix.

OSX mouse input always buffled me the most, right after font rendering. How can the most basic aspect of a desktop os be so unconfigurabke and shifty? There are requests on apple support forum for 10 years, they keep coming out with huge changes, yet still cant add ANY mouse input options, like disabling their shifty accelerate. I absolutely don't get it. Maybe it's one part of the os Steve jobs wrote, and no one ever criticized it.

I think they've incorporated it to their identity, they just can't admit that something is better in windows. But I have to admit that the trackpad handling on macbook is better than on windows laptops. But as soon as you plug a mouse in - it's a joke.

even if you lost all your drivers and whatever, follow this (really easy) guide
how to bootcamp: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/boot_camp_install-setup.pdf

And you will have a windows partition with full win drivers in no time, you only need 2 blank dvds 1 for windows 1 for drivers or a flash usb drive, i prefer the dvds. The guide is really simple, and besides, people use mac for programming or apps, not for gaming.
Windows is where gaming is at.

I have gotten QL running on my macbook pretty well, apart from the poor framerate due to intel hd3000 crap.

I found that installing razer drivers and using a razer mouse gets rid of acceleration and makes mouse control similar to windows.

You can get it playable for fun, but not for competitive play.

Truth be told I know prefer OSX, for work, but of course you can't really game on it. When I get a large enough ssd I'll probably go hackintosh/win7 route. One for work and one for games.

i get 125 fps solid with hd3000 ;o

Get a real pc => problems solved

i hope you are at least a linux user because if a windows user thinks his OS is better / more customizable / more "hackable" or whatever than unix i dunno what to say :/

how you do this?
molocaine[at]gmail.com

http://www.triq.net/articles/mouse-accelerati...e-mac-os-x

it's a pref-pane for mouse speed.
mouse acceleration problem solved.

Doesn't work :/

The answer is LINUX