Driver San Francisco on MAC doesn't even start! | Forums

[Ubi-Mush]

Hi guys, if you have issues please submit a ticket with technical support.

The Minimum Requirements are;

Hardware requirements:

Minimum hardware requirements
Supported OS: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
RAM: 2 GB
Video Card: 512MB video card (see supported list*)
Hard Drive Space: 11 GB

Recommended hardware requirements
Processor: Intel Core i7
RAM: 3GB RAM
Video Card: 1024MB video card (see supported list*)
* Supported list of video cards
- ATI Radeon Radeon HD 2000 Series, Radeon HD 4000 Series, Radeon HD 5000 Series, Radeon HD 6000 Series
Laptop models of these cards may work but are not supported.

Matching Apple models:

iMac
Minimum
7,1 (2007)
MB325XX/A; MB393XX/A; MB398XX/A
10,1 (2009)
MC413XX/A; MB952XX/A
Recommended
11,1 (2009)
MB953XX/A
11,2 (2010)
MC508XX/A; MC509XX/A
11,3 (2010)
MC510XX/A; MC511XX/A
12,1 (2011)
MC309XX/A; MC812XX/A
12,2 (2011)
MC813XX/A; MC814XX/A

Mac Pro
Minimum
3,1 (2008)
MA970*/A
Recommended
4,1 (2009)
MB535*/A
5,1 (2010)
MC560*/A; MC250*/A; MC561*/A

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Ubi-Mush,

I did that. Never got an answer...

[hervus666]

Have a look here

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...at-startup-Mac

[crmackintosh]

I had the same problem, the screen was just white, but I managed to fix it. It was because of the power savings settings on the Macbook Pro automatically switching to the weaker graphics card. You need to go to System Preferences > Energy Saver and turn off "Automatic Graphics Switching". This worked for me and the game is running perfectly ever since.

I bought earlier Driver San Francisco from Macgamestore.com. After having completed the download I installed it and tried to play with it. But then as i launched the game through Ubisoft game launcher it launches but then i can only hear audio of the game. The screen was all white. can anyone help me with this. i have my system specs listed below. thanks. please help..

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.2 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB

[RaptormauBR]

I got my driver working after I follow the host editing instructions from odd duck

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=2183652

I didn't have to download the game launcher, I only erased those lines from hosts and it's working now, proof:



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[Lord_Ardget]

Too bad nobody warned you about this..
See, Ubisoft doesn't even care about computer gamers - all they care about is the console gamers. The game is pretty messed up for PC as well, so I'm not suprised it doesn't even work for the Mac. And don't expect answers from the support, and even if you get answers, all they are going to tell you is to update your graphics and sound drivers and close background programs, and when you ao all of these and the problem isn't fixed, they will start to repeat themselves (I'm saying this from my experience - I've contacted them too many times because of this game).
It's a shame though. Such a great game this is, and they've simple ruined it. Thank you Ubisoft for ruining another great game.

BTW Warn your friends - tell them to not buy this game. Ubisoft doesn't deserve this money, they sell something that doesn't even work. I have the PC version of the game and I couldn't enjoy it at all - The lag was insane and the multiplayer stopped working after a while. And before it was released I've waited so much for this game, but as I mentioned before, Ubisoft has just simply ruined the game on PC (and Mac...). On consoles the game is brilliant though.

Just shut up. This worked for me perfectly until I installed Mountain Lion. Then I got the white-screen trouble. Ok?

[JMBergen]

I had the same problem, every time I started Driver San Francisco I only got a white screen with only the sound of the game.
I just fixed that problem by turning the energy saving settings of on my MacBook Pro (late 2012 model.)
It appears that the game used to start with just the standard video-card enabled. By changing the settings 'automatic graphics switching' to off, you force the computer to load the game with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512 MB instead of the standard Intel HD Graphics 4000 videocard:

Now it works fine on my MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion (8gb RAM)

Greets,

JMBergen

[Rafael.Rafas]

The thing is that they made a game for Mac, but it DOESN'T work on MacBOOKS. Only on the desktop iMac. I found that out after I bought the game.
Weird thing: I reinstalled the game and I was able to start it up for only once. After I was done playing and the next time I wanted to relaunch the game, the blank screen problem was back.

Sooooo dissapointed..

Edited March 29th

Oh my! I found a solution on this forum and it works!

"Download "gfxCardStatus" and switch to "discrete only" before starting the game" and it will WORK on your macbook pro. Spread the word! :-)

I've downloaded "gfxCardStatus" as you told so and... UHUUU!!! 100% SOLVED! THANK you SOOOOO MUCH!

[krubble]

None of the Ubisoft games seem to work properly on the Mac. I have Driver San Francisco and Splinter Cell Conviction via Steam. Both have huge lagging issues, which make them completely unplayable. And there's no way to get any technical support from Ubisoft!!!! I know now to never buy from Ubisoft again!