SOLVED: KoF XIII compatibility regression

lol, yes, I consider myself lucky indeed 🍀 this was a donated piece of hardware with a busted Retina screen and keyboard/touchpad that is all messed up - it’s a miracle the thing still boots macOS Monterey (and runs Ubuntu great!) hooked to an external monitor, keyboard, mouse without any issues! I literally found a hack to physically disconnect the LCD screen from the motherboard to either prevent it from sleeping when the lid is closed or trick it to putting out 4k resolution over HDMI.

anyhoo, good news - i got it to work by choosing Open GL as its renderer (tried to disable anti-aliasing first and didn’t help) - it’s amazing to see the game working so smoothly with all the performance improvements that have been made! [there is minor glitch w the background animation starting in the Egypt stage, but nothing to fuss about as it starts eventually]

thanks everyone for nudging this along