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Kronos to require Mac OS X 10.7 or higher?

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Arthur Aihaken
Kenshin Academia.
Kenshin Shogunate.
#1 - 2014-05-29 22:48:49 UTC
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The upgrade to the latest version of Cider, allows for improved customer experience on the Mac. This version of Cider only supports version Mac OS X 10.7 and above.


Is this a new requirement for Mac players, ie: upgrade to Mac OS X 10.7 or higher?

I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
Darryn Lowe
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2014-05-30 02:59:59 UTC
I think it is a new requirement.

I hope this means the new Cider release is leveraging functionality such as GrandCentral etc that came out with 10.7. GC was part of 10.6 but not as much as it was with 10.7.
GM Karidor
Game Masters
C C P Alliance
#3 - 2014-05-30 13:07:03 UTC
As Darryn Lowe already suspects, 10.7.5 will indeed be the new minimum requirement (in fact, it already is listed as minimum requirement on our System Requirement page) and you will have to upgrade your MacOS accordingly to play EVE after the Kronos Release. This had also been announced to be happening via our news system a few months ago:

http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/eve-online-news/upcoming-changes-to-macintosh-minimum-requirements/

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Arthur Aihaken
Kenshin Academia.
Kenshin Shogunate.
#4 - 2014-05-31 00:41:38 UTC
I hope 10.7.5 is going to be the maximum for a while, as my Mac Pro is basically EOL in terms of future software upgrades (and ineligible for OSX Mavericks). I imagine more than a few Mac players are going to be in a similar situation, and it wouldn't surprise me that despite the previous notice the new system requirements in Kronos are going to catch more than a few off guard.

I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
Taggart Ambraelle
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-06-01 22:35:24 UTC
i hope i will be able to play while keeping Sn.Leo. 10.6.8 because i have three programs i love that are incompatible with 10.7 and above.
Arthur Aihaken
Kenshin Academia.
Kenshin Shogunate.
#6 - 2014-06-02 05:23:46 UTC
Taggart Ambraelle wrote:
i hope i will be able to play while keeping Sn.Leo. 10.6.8 because i have three programs i love that are incompatible with 10.7 and above.

Nope.

I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
Shirah Yuri
Tonic Empire
#7 - 2014-06-02 06:02:20 UTC
In worst case, get Mavericks, install to external HDD to use when running Eve... or install Windows with Boot Camp. Not the best solution, but... well .... What?
Augustus Halifax
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2014-06-02 14:16:22 UTC
Is there any hope that this might mitigate some of the constant crashing?
William Darkk
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-06-03 17:58:47 UTC
Augustus Halifax wrote:
Is there any hope that this might mitigate some of the constant crashing?

If you mean the freeze bug then NOPE.
Kimimaro Yoga
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#10 - 2014-06-05 12:59:24 UTC
Arthur Aihaken wrote:
I hope 10.7.5 is going to be the maximum for a while, as my Mac Pro is basically EOL in terms of future software upgrades (and ineligible for OSX Mavericks). I imagine more than a few Mac players are going to be in a similar situation, and it wouldn't surprise me that despite the previous notice the new system requirements in Kronos are going to catch more than a few off guard.

Yes please this. Apparently the new version of cider has improved some things. Multithreading performance appears to be way up. As an owner of an old 8-core machine, this pleases me greatly.
What does not please me greatly is that if Eve decides to start requiring Mountain Lion, well my machine isn't supported by ML (thanks Apple). My choices would be to either hack part of the basic system software, or replace my machine. (Boot Camp also isn't supported by my nice RAID setup, because apparently being compatible with their own software is too hard for Apple these days). Grumbling aside, Lion covers a lot of us who are getting by on hefty-but-old hardware that plays Eve quite nicely with say, two monitors and four clients. Newer OSes do not.

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ChrisLCTR
Lazerhawks
L A Z E R H A W K S
#11 - 2014-06-05 22:09:16 UTC
What would be great is if there was something in the launcher that actually states that my OS is no longer going to boot the client. Tried numerous times to load the client, since the launcher says "Client is Ready" and then does absolutely nothing. Come on here and, voila, cant play EVE @ work anymore!! Ugh
Shinzhi Xadi
Doomheim
#12 - 2014-06-06 05:27:44 UTC
All of you with the 32bit UEFI 1,1 and 2,1 machines that are stuck with max of 10.7, do the research about running mavericks on it. You CAN run mavericks. You will need to update to a video card supported by mavericks, possibly update your processors to slightly newer ones, and install a UEFI 32bit to 64bit emulator. Info about this conversion is online.

Mac Pro dual 6-core Xeon 3.06ghz, 24gig ecc ram, EVGA GTX 680 Mac Edition, Intel SSD, OS X Yosemite and Windows 8.1 Pro.
Lephia DeGrande
Luxembourg Space Union
#13 - 2014-06-06 05:31:26 UTC
Taggart Ambraelle wrote:
i hope i will be able to play while keeping Sn.Leo. 10.6.8 because i have three programs i love that are incompatible with 10.7 and above.


Its time for you to move on... and set up a virtual machine for snow leo! ;-)

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