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Stunning, but the star field is a bit overwhelming! Also performance takes a bit hit. I was getting 60 FPS at 1680x1050 with everything on High and HDR, but at 2880x1800 it was around 30. And these are just sitting outside station.

Exactly.

The text at 2880 is definitely sharp and readable, just maybe not quite comfortable to play with. E.g., If I lean back, to 2+ feet away then there's going to be some eye strain. I will try the 125% UI scaling later today and report back. I think the 2880 is useable, but I can see a big divide on personal preference here. Fullscreen at 1920 looks great and gets much better FPS. I almost always play in a window though...

I gotta say, this 150% @ 2880 looks stellar.

The star field is still headache-inducing, but the rest of the game looks spectacular and the text is perfectly easy to read (just about what I'm used to from playing @ 1440p on my 27" considering the change in viewing distance and all).

How are the temperatures with 1 or 2 clients running?

Anybody tried bootcamp and put 2 clients next to one another on the same screen?

Game looks pretty good full screen at 2880x1800, but it tops out at around 30 fps on the low end rMBP with the mac client with all the settings except HDR and anti-aliasing turned up to high. I haven't tried turning down the graphics settings to see what performance is like. I also don't know how resilient that is in the face of fleet action. I assume it would get worse, but I also tend to zoom way out during fleet fights, so maybe it'd be okay?

It's more likely that I'll play in windowed mode since I frequently want at least two clients running. The two options I've played with are running the display at 1440x900 (default) with 1280x800 windowed clients and 90% scaling and running the display at 1920x1200 with 1650x1050 clients at normal scaling. The first option is somewhat cramped, the second the text is a little hard on my eyes so I'd probably have to turn it up to 110%. Both clients run at around 30 fps with gfx settings turned up, 60 fps with the 'performance' preset.

Windowed mode rendering isn't fantastic since the underlying client thinks it's rendering for the reported resolution instead of the higher resolution, so you get all the normal aliasing you'd expect from a non-retina display. In general though, rendering appears to be 'correct', so the game is playable for my uses.

It would be nice if there was a way to create groups of graphics and window settings to allow easy switching between these modes. I would probably use each of these modes, depending on circumstance, but adjusting all the settings and reorganizing windows is painful.

Wait, what?

If I want to play windowed, I just start up my windowed clone which opens a window at 1680x1050. If I'm in 'Best for Retina" (1440x900 equivalent), I can swap to 1920x1200 equivalent either before or after I start the client. Playing full screen at 2880x1800 seems to work starting in either resolution. In all cases, the EVE client seems to remember my scaling preference from the previous run. I would use and enjoy the ability to have multiple 'graphics modes', each with resolution, scaling, performance preference and window setups, but I wanted that under Windows as well.

My complaints at this point are:

1. Windowed mode looks fuzzy, similarly to other apps that do their own font rendering instead of using the cocoa rendering engine.
2. In fullscreen at 2880x1800, the star field gets a bit overwhelming and headache inducing, as others have noted.
3. Performance could be better, especially given how buttery smooth Diablo3 is at 2880x1800 with gfx settings turned up.

(1) is my biggest complaint since I will most likely play windowed mode most of the time. If I only had one account and/or were more of a PvE player, (2) would be really obnoxious. (3) is, well, when don't you complain about performance?

I'll probably get a rMBP soon and i'm curious if it gets hot even if you play at 1440x900 and graphics adjusted for performance?
Did anyone tried running EVE in bootcamp or paralels? It gets hot as well?

Been playing for a few weeks on a maxed out retina mbp. Game looks gorgeous but yeah 200% UI scaling is necessary as the text is still too small at 150%. I can't comment too much on performance as I am having horrible issues with the mac client at times. It certainly drops fps to the 20's in station but is smooth in space 30's unless I zoom in and then it will drop some more.

Will post on the mac client thread about my woes and if people are interested can give more information on the game and the computer.

I make a seperate post but I think I may get a quicker answer here.

I have just received my rMBP and am delighted except I cannot get the thing to play on 2880.

I can play on the lower resolutions but only windowed. I will probably play like this anyway as performance is more important in PvP but always want to see how superb the screen can render.

Anyone that can help with the setups I would appreciate some help as I prefer not to learn mistakes that have been learnt already.

Cheers in advance.

Motty