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Severe Flickering on Mac Client

Author
Bishamon Katani
Katani Stellar Resource Industries
#1 - 2014-09-10 23:58:40 UTC
For the last three days, I've been getting severe flickering / trashed graphics in the Mac client. It looks like a combination of transparency going in and out and graphics elements containing copied images from elsewhere in the UI when they're animated.

It sounds a lot like what's described in this forum thread from back in April 2014:

Flickering after 04/02/2014

Here's a 5 second looping gfycat video of the flickering in the character selection screen.

Flickering at Character Selection

Here's a 12 second looping gfycat video of the flicker while in space. Note the "trash" spinning around the targeted ship.

Flickering in Space

Here's a screenshot of the graphics settings:

Display and Graphics Settings

Settings are fairly low. Only other thing I can really do is turn off Anti-Aliasing completely, but at that point, even under normal circumstances the graphics are too poor for me to consider playable.

The only other "heavy" app I have running is Spotify.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

System Specs:

iMac - 21.5 inch - Late 2012
3.1 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512 MB
OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)

PS - I've seen Eve on a decent windows machine and it's a testament to the play quality that I'm willing to pay for three accounts with such crappy graphics on the Mac. CCP, you really need to put out a native Mac client. Not the windows version wrapped with cider or wine. There are plenty of "develop once, deploy everywhere" graphics engines that there's no reason not to switch. Unity 3D is the first to come to mind. But that's a different thread...

Sophos Mileghere
Ars Goetia Corporation
#2 - 2014-09-12 12:01:23 UTC
I can confirm I'm getting exactly the same problems on Mac - only started yesterday...