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Alternative Client for Mac
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 5:32 am
by Javaness2
When playing on my macbook the GoPanda2 chews up CPU cycles like a beast, causing the hiss of the fan to kick in after a few minutes. There are other things I could gripe about it, but they are minor. The CPU hog makes me want to choose something else - does anyone have any suggestions?
Re: Alternative Client for Mac
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 7:54 am
by swannod
Javaness2 wrote:When playing on my macbook the GoPanda2 chews up CPU cycles like a beast, causing the hiss of the fan to kick in after a few minutes. There are other things I could gripe about it, but they are minor. The CPU hog makes me want to choose something else - does anyone have any suggestions?
Goban
http://gobanapp.com
Re: Alternative Client for Mac
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:36 pm
by Javaness2
I tried the old free version of that, but found it unusable - too many disconnections, very bad lag when trying to navigate the game tree in observed games.
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:45 pm
by EdLee
Hi Java,
While you're searching for another client, also consider to contact Benjamin --
he's quite responsive to my feedback to him about GoPanda2 ( on OSX and WinTel ).
If GoPanda2 is hogging the CPU, it seems a bug ( or two ). If it's easy for him to reproduce,
they'll probably fix it ( in a future release ).
Re: Alternative Client for Mac
Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 9:36 am
by fireproof
Sadly, I can't second that recommendation -- I've found it to be very buggy, sometimes even failing to display stones, or switching to a single color (every stone played is White, for example). Sad, because I really liked it, and found to be the most "Mac-like" out of all the Go apps out there.