Macintosh

Mate pull you're head out of your arse CCP do support MAC just not 10.10 this is no different to windows with their different flavours as to the reason why it does not, well it does not matter CCP will support 10.10 when they finish the testing and can say to us mac users "yes it should work" you cant go off on one when they do not support it, these things take time to test. so wind you're neck in and give them the time they need to work out how their game works on Apples MACOS 10.10.

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There is this old joke

The patient holds up his arm. "Doctor, it hurts whenever I do this."
Doctor: "Then don't do that."

CCP: "We are at the mercy of transgaming to make Eve work on the Mac."
Then stop using transgaming and make Eve work on the Mac some other way.

For those like this you can look at the "wine" version. The forum shows up normally on the first page. I have used it a number of times. Just no CQ support

There isn't really a good answer to that question. Some people say it works fine, but many others (like me) still crash 4 out of 5 times they undock. The only official line we have from CCP is that Yosemite is not supported.

I have gotten EVE to run pretty well on Yosemite by downloading the PC client and using Wine to run it...but the official MAC client is still screwed.

This latest patch (15.02.05) has made my EVE Client so unstable that it is unplayable.
I have submitted a support ticket for this.

I have had problems running EVE ever since I got my new iMac:

2014 27" 5K Retina
4 GHz i7
16GB DDR3
AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4096 MB

Running 10.10.2

Prior to this patch, the client would crash in various ways a couple of times a day under a diverse number of circumstances, however the most common one involves an OSX Error window about a graphics error followed by the client freezing and requiring a hard quit.

Prior to this current iMac, I was using an older 2009 iMac running Mavericks. It was relatively stable but did still have problems from time to time with the client crashing, with and without errors.


But NOW, as of 15.02.05, the client is so unstable that it crashes/closes/freezes every 15-20 minutes during any number of situations (mostly seems to have problems swapping sessions). Now, sometimes the launcher won't open (spinning beachball), can't connect, or the client window simply closes with no warning/error. Other times the graphics get all scrambled and either entirely or partially disappear.

It is really disappointing that such a great game can't run on the newest high-end Apple computer, since this game was why I bought the new computer in the first place.

That's a LOT of money and time (not even counting the two subs I have) to spend just to feel irritated.

What's the plan, CCP?

I'm starting to suspect they don't have one...

For those of you who are running the newest iMacs or anything with OSX 10.10.#, be aware that, per the response on my support ticket: "CCP does not support OSX 10.10.#. We recommend you downgrade to 10.8 or 10.9"

Except for the fact that the newest hardware WON'T RUN on OSXs prior to Yosemite(10.10.#) - per Apple Tech Support, that 's a great idea!

No timeline for Yosemite support. They say they are "working with TransGaming (the folks who are in charge of the absolutely horrid CIDER implementation) to start supporting OSX 10.10.#"

So, we can do a couple of things while we wait and hope that Apple's next OSX release (and associated hardware) doesn't happen before CCP supports what is out now:

Install and boot into a Windows environment (not sure what the latest version CCP supports) and run the game. (This means BUYING Windows).
Try to install and run the Linux WINE environment and run the game.

I've read that the WINE solution comes with its own problems but at least is reasonably stable.
The Windows solution seems to be the best way to run the game in the "native" package and is the fastest and best running.

So, what to do?
I REALLY don't want to put a Microsoft product on my iMac, not to mention I'm not even sure it would run properly given the current 5K retina architecture.

Maybe, as Arthur points out, the new AMD Radeon driver that is coming in Tiamat, will solve many of these problems? Considering 90% of my problems are graphics related:

"Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000024 at address 0x7001c524"

I can only hope so.

That is actually good news. It is the first time I have heard of anyone being told that they are even working on the issue. I was starting to fear they were just going to drop the Mac when I didn't see anything about it in the release notes for tomorrow.

I find it interesting that they say they don't support Windows 8.1...that seems really odd.

I thought I would let all of you wonderful Apple folks know that I have contacted TransGaming directly to inquire about OSX Yosemite support in their CIDER implementation and their timeline to provide it.

Do I expect them to respond? NO, but the squeaky wheel gets the grease and I'm one hell of a squeaky wheel.

Did anyone try to run Eve in a Virtual machine like VMWare or Virtual box ?

I'm really bored with Eve Client under Yosemite, cause it makes my mac heat like a b**** and running multiple client instances is just the best way to burn my CPU down...
Alt-tab freezes the whole system really often. I lost several ships because of this.

Oh and NO, I won't downgrade my OS on my pro laptop because of a game...that won't happen.