Macintosh

Exactly the same -- as soon as I hit vacuum the GUI froze. Also, ping times on another machine went through the roof when this happened.

Also running 10.7.5 -- possible connection?

I've just re-enabled my account after a 10 month gap, mostly for this making the game unplayable.


within minutes it's happening again, full client freeze with the audio from the last half second or so on loop.

happens in space mostly, but has happened in station.

tried with audio disabled and the issue persists.

I freeze upwards to a couple times a day. I haven't yet disabled my audio in a test, as I can go hours without anything happening anyway. That will be my next thing to try.

I did find the following in Console:
There is nothing else of note listed in Console at that time.

My computer:

• Mid-2011 21.5" iMac
• AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB
• 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
• 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
• Mac OS X 10.9.3 (13D45a) (this occurred in previous versions at roughly the same frequency as well)

In recent time I've only locked up once while in space, if I recall correctly. That was in Frarn. The issue occurs otherwise entirely while docked in Rens.

Edit after testing:
With the sound off, there is no improvement. In fact, I managed to freeze twice in just a few minutes, which was new.

The Console output is the same as quoted above.

More testing has been done.

I turned my sound back on, but I realised that I've been flying for ages now with world volume turned off. I turned it back on, then proceeded to freeze nearly a dozen times during the gaming session, of which four were during a single hour.

Several of my freezes happened while I was tabbed out as well.

Any news about this? my client keep on freezing...

Hello,
I too am experiencing the same issues as others - constant freezing of the game client. Imagine my disappointment after changing from PC to a Mac and finding that I will not be able to play EVE normally (or at all) . I have spent few days observing the conditions and my actions that lead to these freezes. Below are some facts that I have noticed about this issue.

How it freezes - game client (or is it UI) stops responding, first everything freezes, than after a few seconds sound begins to stutter (though not every time, sometimes game freezes and sound disappears completely).

When it freezes - the thing that upsets me the most - there are no apparent consistency to it. During these few days i froze pretty much everywhere - while mining, warping, approaching jump gate, docked, in an open map window, fitting screen and etc. Thus I can't even imagine what I do to cause freezes or even if my actions are that causes them.

Game client starts normally, updates via launcher, game loads normally (though just before Logging screen, while in completely black screen, an "eco of a desktop" (for the lack of better words to describe it) flashes for an instant), and everything seems to be ok, until ... it freezes. There were no difficulties to force quit, I use this every time I freeze. Launch game - play 5-30 min (sometimes even more) - freeze - force quit - repeat.

Steps to avoid freezing - having read all post regarding this longstanding issue I've tried several recommended things - to no effect.
I tried disabling sound, lowest graphics settings, shader settings (high to low), cleaning cash, quitting all programmes in the background - nothing helped.

I hope (and I know that hope is waisted on the hopeless) that this account of my experience and actions would help in some way. I do look forward to the new Kronos expansion.

I am running the latest software and hardware for EVE and my iMac.

iMac, 27-inch, Late 2013
Processor 3,5 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB
Software OS X 10.9.2

Regards
Quetz

P.S. If there is anything that we can do to help - Developers - please let us know. Maybe there is any monitoring utility we can run while playing EVE to determine the cause of these freezes? I am sure it has been said a thousand times - but I feel that we would do pretty much anything to help you with it.

Hi, today was the day of the mass test on Singularity. Amongst other changes, there seems to be a few addressing most pressing issues for the Mac users.
I was there and I can say one thing - the stuff is promising. For the whole duration of the mass test, extremely low FPS, and a huge battle client was steady and stable (not counting the dead node thingy of course). So for at least 2 hours of gameplay in some serious conditions - no freezes, bugs or other irregularities were present. And that is a lot as I am unable to play for more than 15 minutes without freezing. And yes - the blinking lights are on

I can't wait for these changes to go live in Tranquility. The future is bright :)

Regards
Quetz

I still get this.

Every time I leave the Station the Client freezes and I have to Force Quit.

This does not happen with the Windows Client on my laptop, only with the Mac Client on my iMac.

Please, please fix this

Nothing changed so far for me either. Waiting for the Kronos expansion to come and hoping everything will be ok. Otherwise I will be forced to rethink my subscription - I can't play anyway. At least training queue can be filled up to 21 days of training. But one can only go so far.

Regards
Quetz

I'm getting this too. Constantly freezing. I play in windowed mode but always have to force quit via Activity Monitor. Freezes literally 60 seconds max after launching.

System Specs:

Mavericks OSX Version 10.9.3
Processor 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000

I have all the latest software updates for my system. Completely unusable at the moment.