MacOS: engine takes about 10 seconds to shut down.

[Crystal-Shard]

Describe the bug
On MacOS, when I quit the game, the game's window freezes for about 10 seconds before actually closing.
This happens both in windowed and in fullscreen mode.

AGS Version
3.6.1.25

Game
Any

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Quit the game (either with a GUI button that calls QuitGame(), or by clicking the red circle on the window header)
2. The game window freezes and no longer responds to input
3. Wait about ten seconds
4. The game window closes

Expected behavior
The window closes more-or-less immediately, like it does on other OS'es.

Screenshots
The on-screen logs (stdout) show simply

Starting game
Quitting the game...
***** ENGINE HAS SHUTDOWN

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• MacOS
• 14.7.2

[ivan-mogilko]

Are you running natively on MacOS, or using a virtual machine? I recall having something similar with the Linux VM.

[Crystal-Shard]

It's a remote desktop session to MacInCloud.com; the vendor describes it asa "Physical Non-VM Mac Server".

[ivan-mogilko]

The on-screen logs (stdout) show simply

You could try running with --log-stdout=all:all command line argument, and see if that prints anything useful.

[Crystal-Shard]

The same issue has been reported on a Macbook Air 2019 (not a VM) running MacOS 14.7.1.

I'll try your suggestion.

[Crystal-Shard]

You could try running with --log-stdout=all:all command line argument, and see if that prints anything useful.

When quitting:

Window event: close
SDL event: quit
Quitting the game...

(engine freezes for ~10 seconds)

SDL : ERROR: DEBUG: Window data not set
***** ENGINE HAS SHUTDOWN

[ericoporto]

There is a flag for more SDL log too

--sdl-log=verbose

[ivan-mogilko]

There is a flag for more SDL log too

--sdl-log=verbose

I just found that we have a mistake in the engine, that sets sdl log priority to 0 if no other option is set, making it verbose always.

[ivan-mogilko]

AGS Version
3.6.1.25

I don't know if this problem is related to SDL2 at all, but for the reference, 3.6.1.25 version was built with SDL 2.28.5 (see https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags/blob/55fc5a4304ce67e65f858966a10a9a07d5d12457/version.json).

@Crystal-Shard could you clarify, how do you make the mac engine? Do you compile yourself, or use someone else's build? Would you be able to use latest SDL2 (I believe it's 2.30.12)

[Crystal-Shard]

@Crystal-Shard could you clarify, how do you make the mac engine? Do you compile yourself, or use someone else's build?

I haven't tried building the Mac engine myself; I got it from the various "Steam achievements on a Mac" threads on the AGS forum.

[ivan-mogilko]

Could you post a link to that forum thread/post where you got it from?

I don't think we may diagnose a problem without knowing how the mac engine was built.

[Crystal-Shard]

Sure, here it is: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/advanced-technical-forum/help-getting-achievements-to-trigger-in-mac-builds

And also: http://www.edenwaith.com/blog/index.php?p=161