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Vincent's running on a Mac. We don't have EVE Probe yet.

Belts went fine with my GTX 590 - 110+ FPS as usual (120 Hz monitor, window mode).

Then I got into an anom and found those new effects in a cloud there... screeeeeeeech, up to 80C, down to 30 FPS.

Anything I should do to help resolving this?

I know the focus is on the Proteus release, but afterwards... Any chance of getting a Mac-specific update on supporting the AMD Radeon R9 M290X and M295X graphics cards?

I got no clue what you're running, but this is what the belt effects actually look like if you're able to run with graphics settings maxed out:

New Belt Effects

Super cool new navy exequror model in there because why not :P

Oh, you mean the in game graphics setting that is controlled via a setting buried in the Launcher's settings menu? Maybe I'm silly for expecting a graphics setting to be in a more applicable place. Until you mentioned it I never took the additional time to search through every single menu possible to find it, kept seeing people mention dx9 or dx11 but hadn't the foggiest where exactly it was since it wasn't on the graphics or general settings in game.

But anyhoo, seriously, that really doesn't look much better. I parked my ship next to one, still looked terrible. The rock was half the size of my ship, I could fly right through it, and it had no more depth look/feel to it than the sprite version. The field still looked like a bunch of over-cluttered dots on my screen from a normal viewing distance. And even though my FPS stayed at 60, I was watching the system draw the new objects as I rotated my screen around. If this were done right there would be tons of tiny fragments of the actual asteroids floating around the belt that you could actually mine as well, seeing how some of these 'objects' are larger than some of the mineable rocks to begin with. And maybe your ship could actually colide with these fragments as well, but since they would be smaller they would bounce off instead of your ship bouncing around, or have them slowly orbit some point in the belt or one of the larger asteroids.

But I really like how you just left #2 hanging... and no, it didn't work correctly with dx11 either. In both you have to enable the asteroid blob in order to see the light rays. Not exactly ideal.

So as it stands this is another feature (Asteroid Environment) which will remain turned off from my end. Not because my system can't handle it, but because it looks terrible and is poorly implemented. Now if the Light Rays got fixed to not also require Asteroid Environment to be enabled as well, that would be nice as they do look good and are at least pretty decently implemented. These are going to be a terrible drag to some of the missions that were already hugely taxing to most systems with all of their hundreds of structures to form a simple wall next to a billion washed out bright gas clouds inside a widespread asteroid belt with other structures all over. Yeah, you can barely see anything now, let alone not being able to see through the combined clouds or its exaggerated effect on framerate. My guess is in mission effects weren't taken into consideration when this was being thought up. Another example of unfinished features and ignored feedback.

Those "light rays" are the bright areas between shadows from the rocks. The switch controls whether the rocks cast shadows in the fog. I suggest that having shadows cast from rocks that are not there would look very strange and not be desirable.

Dont get me wrong it looks good but there is one huge issue with it.

If your in a cloaked ship in an asteroid belt you cant tell what is a real asteroid that will uncloak you and what is a bit of new debris that is in effect a ghost u can fly right through.

The same issue exists with getting stuck (hung up) when trying to warp or align out - u cant tll what is a real asteroid or what is a ghost.

I turned it on for a play about and discovered it was just too dangerous to use so turned it off again.
Its all well and good doing visual only features, it looks great, but it doesnt work in a game play sense.

Nice try but but fail!

You seriously saying that the normal asteroids can't cast shadows on their own or don't exist? But they do. The asteroid blob of sprites isn't the only thing that casts shadows, am I right? I can't be the only one that saw the 2 separate options and then wrongly presumed that if you had just Light Rays turned on that you would still get shadows from the normal asteroids.

When did I say that we need shadows being cast from things that weren't there? I just said let the Light Rays cast shadows with the things that were still there, like I don't know, the harvestable asteroids that were there to begin with.

Or are you saying that the normal harvestable asteroids are incapable of casting shadows on their own without the sprite blob's shadows being cast at the same time?

I mean when in those belts even your ship casts shadows, but it isn't an asteroid sprite, so I don't see why the asteroids wouldn't be able to cast shadows without the presence of the sprite blob.