Macintosh

Even running a single client brings me random lockups. I set autopilot, send my indy toon across empire and wander off to do other things -- come back and find that I've made it 3 jumps out of 25 and the client locked up.

It's becoming unplayable. This has happened on and off with different versions of the Mac client over the years, but this is possibly the worst.

OSX 10.8.3, Mac Pro 2008 8 core, ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB, 8 GB RAM.

Constantly freezing when in hangar. Too afraid to undock. Clearing cache etc does nothing. It is now literally unplayable.

Apparently this is a known issue as CCP Habakuk uses a Mac and gets freezes.

I can confirm that the only thing that helps is restarting OSX completely. But as time wears on the freeze problem gets more and more profound.

That's right, resetting EVE client does nothing. Only O/S restart helps.

I did not realise EVE uses WINE and Winelib, and I have to say that it's vaguely disappointing. I realise the costs involved with porting a game natively to a different system (and unix and Windows are as different from each other as they get), but EVE is not a small company.

Also I have noticed that the game freezes more often when the game window (I play in windowed mode) is in not in the foreground.

All my settings are set to max, by the way. I might try to tweak the game settings one by one to see if it matters.

Also the Help channel is extremely unhelpful with this issue as every single time I have mentioned it all I received was Mac-bashing. Once they even asked me to leave the channel and go to the OSX channel because I was asking an irrelevant question.

Edit: game has frozen when in the background and docked (hangar), when undocking (once), while orbiting POS, several times while in space.

I have had this problem reoccuring, but it began when I used the CCP provided Eve Clonemaker.app; the cloned version of Eve would crash, and launching the program again would only get me as far as a black box.

Only after deleting the cloned app and its local settings completely would I be able to use the Clonemaker again and then dualbox once more. While this issue happened at least once a day, it also happens while using my main installation, every 2-3 days.

The aggravating part is changing all of my settings to what I want. Although some settings can be saved/preserved, minor things like graphics, window settings, blinking icons and all of that, adds up. I've tried deleting the cache, then other settings, in a piece-meal fashion so I could get in without having to reconfigure the client, but so far it hasn't been feasible.

Wait..What? I never keep the game icon in the task bar. Of course its there when the game is running, but otherwise, no. And I seem to have almost no freezes.

(I do this because when eve runs, it auto-starts another application and you end up with 2 eve icons in the task bar. As I have 3 accounts that means I could have 6 icons in the task bar, and that's just more clutter than I want).

Do others who get freezes use the task bar for launching eve? Does anyone NOT using the task bar get alot of freezes? Or vice versa?

Try disabling it and see if that helps. EVE has a rocky relationship with background torrents.

It might not make the problem go away, though. On my new 27" iMac (8GB RAM), I'm getting silent disconnects, where the server connection is lost but no dialog informs me of that, and I don't usually find out until I notice that I realize that the interface has become completely non-interactive--modules still cycle, the ship still appears to be moving through space, but the interface is unresponsive and the app has to be Force Quit. Sometimes I'll find out because someone on comms will mention that I've DC'd before I realize that anything's wrong. Sometimes, after these, OS X itself becomes slow and wobbly and I have to reboot the machine.

These seem to have replaced the hard freezes I used to get on my old 24" iMac.

I've had the same impression.
When i use uTorrent my client crash more often, it never runds more than an hour.
Without it, sometimes i dont crash through a whole evening (even though, sometimes it happens and i can only pray it's not during a fight).
This issue is around for a while now, would be nice to fix it.

p.s. the same thing that happens with uTorrent, happens also with the new app released by SomaFM, that i wished to use to listen to Soma's internet radio stream while playing....

Due to complaints from many who did not want their bandwidth consumed by torrents, CCP has not in fact implemented that change, and has said its on indefinite hold.

Which is good, its mere existence may have made the Mac client unusable for everyone.

Aye, but others were using the incorrect term, and I got swept up in the flow.