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We therefore strongly suggest to run Expyriment programmes from the command
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line when testing participants.
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**MacOS does not report accurate visual presentation times**
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After the necessary switch to Pygame2 that happened with Expyriment 0.11.0, MacOS does not
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seem to be reporting accurate visual presentation times. MacOS has a compositor running which
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cannot be turned off. In theory, fullscreen programmes should be able to bypass it automatically,
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however, this does not seem to be the case in our experience.
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While Expyriment on MacOS will work perfecly fine for designing and implementing your experiments,
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we do not recommend to use MacOS to run an actual experiment (i.e. test participants)!
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.. _Python 3.12.1: https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.1/python-3.12.1-macos11.pkg
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.. _ffmpeg: https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-5.1.zip

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