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We therefore strongly suggest to run Expyriment programmes from the command
line when testing participants.

**MacOS does not report accurate visual presentation times**

After the necessary switch to Pygame2 that happened with Expyriment 0.11.0, MacOS does not
seem to be reporting accurate visual presentation times. MacOS has a compositor running which
cannot be turned off. In theory, fullscreen programmes should be able to bypass it automatically,
however, this does not seem to be the case in our experience.
While Expyriment on MacOS will work perfecly fine for designing and implementing your experiments,
we do not recommend to use MacOS to run an actual experiment (i.e. test participants)!

.. _Python 3.12.1: https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.1/python-3.12.1-macos11.pkg
.. _ffmpeg: https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-5.1.zip

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