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Beta-Testing Crucible
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Delilah Wild
Concordokken Holdings
#1 - 2011-11-30 03:27:51 UTC
Hi Everyone,

Now that we have a Mac beta of Crucible to test for CCP, I thought I'd start this thread to gather all our comments into one place. I hope this will make completing Crucible for the Mac easier for our CCP developers.

To begin the process, I'd like to note that downloading the patch and applying it to multiple installations appears to be broken. I've tried downloading it several times. Each one completes properly. When I go to unarchive it, however, the unarchiving function fails.

Cheers!

Founder, Coalition of Anti-Pirates
Trion Roles
Sons of Bistot
Intaki-Business Logistics Union
#2 - 2011-11-30 03:51:24 UTC
patch installed correctly first time. scrolling in items and ships seems faster. Dock and undock seems faster. love warp jump to gates. nebulae are pretty. Full body shots take too long to load, are too small, and silly in any event. test combat against new tier 3 BC showed it was more glass than cannon. I'm very happy. I have not seen trails yet.
Talonn Keese
We Alone Remain
B.S.I.
#3 - 2011-11-30 04:50:59 UTC
The only thing I've seen after installing Crucible is some random freezing and minor graphic issue when looking at a full body portrait on Show Info.

The freezing so far has happened twice, each time playing for about 30 min. When it happens, the sound or music just gets 'stuck' like a skipping CD and I can't move the anything on screen. Only way to get out is force quitting.

I play on a 2009 Mac Pro 2.93Ghz Quad, 16GB RAM, OS 10.7.2, ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB. No issues before in Incarna. I'd really like this to be a freak occurrence as I'd hate to redownload the whole game or restart all my settings after setting them up again after the patch. I update the thread if it happens again.
Billy Colorado
Evasion Gaming
#4 - 2011-11-30 05:32:21 UTC
I've always experienced the random black screens when moving from station to space, or vice versa.

Additionally, engine trails (intact, any engine effect) disappear very promptly when zooming out the camera. I don't know if this is intended or a mac specific bug, but I remember this issue being raised before, though at the time the disappearing engine trails wasn't applicable.

2010 mbp 13" 2.4ghz
Delilah Wild
Concordokken Holdings
#5 - 2011-12-07 10:40:57 UTC
A brief update.

The day after Crucible was released, I again downloaded the patcher and it worked. Aside from the initial issue, I'm pleasantly surprised to say this has been one of the smoothest patches for me to date.

Cheers

Founder, Coalition of Anti-Pirates
lafforet
Amarr Royal Trust Bank
#6 - 2011-12-07 12:34:57 UTC
Talonn Keese wrote:
The only thing I've seen after installing Crucible is some random freezing and minor graphic issue when looking at a full body portrait on Show Info.

The freezing so far has happened twice, each time playing for about 30 min. When it happens, the sound or music just gets 'stuck' like a skipping CD and I can't move the anything on screen. Only way to get out is force quitting.

I play on a 2009 Mac Pro 2.93Ghz Quad, 16GB RAM, OS 10.7.2, ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB. No issues before in Incarna. I'd really like this to be a freak occurrence as I'd hate to redownload the whole game or restart all my settings after setting them up again after the patch. I update the thread if it happens again.



What would you do if you would get 13 freezings within 35 minutes? I am afraid this game is over till its fixed ... and not just for me. And that is very disappointing.
Shirah Yuri
Tonic Empire
#7 - 2011-12-08 11:04:55 UTC
Another issue I'm encountering is that when running EVE in windowed mode, the font scaling is not applied at game startup.

My game is set to run 1600x900 windowed at 90% font scaling. However, when I start up the game, all fonts appear at 100%. Workaround: Set UI scaling to 100%. Apply. (Nothing changes). Set UI scaling back to 90%. Apply. Now font is in right size.

On contrast, when using Fullscreen, UI scaling appears to work a-ok.
Druj Andarr
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2011-12-08 22:47:52 UTC
For 20 minutes so far of 'game play' the main view has been black, so I can't track things visually, have to depend on overview. Agents don't show up in stations right away, and when they do, the conversation windows don't show up. A check of the journal shows that missions have been offered, but no details are available either through conversations with agents or through 'read details' of the mission. The in-game browser works, so it's not all new windows.

Client worked as of yesterday on my iMac, and as of Incarna on this MacBook. Core 2 Duo 2.4, NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics. So, has the technology finally surpassed my laptop, or is this a bug?