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macos 13.3 introduced another dot, a blue dot for location services. Unfortunately it seems to severely interfere with games. For example, playing Asphalt9 from
by 0x0 4y ago
macos 13.3 introduced another dot, a blue dot for location services. Unfortunately it seems to severely interfere with games. For example, playing Asphalt9 from the mac app store, on macOS 13.3, whenever the blue dot appears, which seems to happen almost every minute, the game's audio stops, any attached game controller becomes unresponsive, and if you were actively playing a single player race, the game pauses and shows the pause menu, as if you had changed focus to a different application. After about 10 seconds, the blue dot disappear and the game controller becomes responsive again, allowing you to unpause the game. This makes any attempt at actually playing the game an exercise in anger management.
- madeofpalk 4y agoIs that a problem with the dot, or a problem with the game?
- zamnos 4y agoIt's a problem where the Operating System decided to run a background task and caused the foreground task that the user was interacting with to develop UX issues. Arguably the game could do a better job of handing when the operating system pulls the rug out from under it, but managing the limited hardware resources is really the job of the operating system. So it's the blue dot.
- Klonoar 4y ago...is the game prompting a location service to spin up? That's more alarming to me than the blue dot itself.
- zamnos 4y agoIt's possible, given all of the macOS games out there, but macOS often decides to check on its own location, either to report the weather, or to update the laptop location for Find My, in case it's been stolen.
- Klonoar 4y agoAh! I misread your comment, this makes sense. (Why it's happening, that is - not _that_ it's happening)
- sys_64738 4y agoI noticed the blue dot and wondered what it was. I’m OK with it myself.