Macintosh

We are happy to announce that the Tiamat release has been successfully deployed!

Tiamat brings the new Minmatar Tactical Destroyer, the Svipul, along with balancing to projectile weapons, many more corp little things and friendly fire control, visual updates to strcutures in missions and deadspace areas, new UI icon additions, more themed UI elements, quality settings for sun flares, atmospheric sounds for pirate faction structures, improvements to the audio engine, additions to turrer audio and of course a new theme tune for Tiamat.

In addition to these features, a number of new inhabitants of New Eden will be emerging from their slumber to begin exploring, their motives unknown and their tolerance for capsuleers untested until first contact.

You can read more about what's coming in the "Coming to EVE in the Tiamat Release" devblog by CCP Seagull, and check out the full patch notes here.

To report Macintosh related issues, please use this thread. For general feedback on the Tiamat release, please see this thread, and to report issues with the PC release, please go here.

Sorry, posted on the MAC forums by accident.

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The cloaking effect still shows a hexagonal pattern on my Nvidia card.

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Display Devices

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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GTX 880M
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Type: Full Device
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1198&SUBSYS_05AE1028&REV_A1
Display Memory: 24383 MB
Dedicated Memory: 8037 MB
Shared Memory: 16345 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (120Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: unknown
Monitor Id: SEC5044
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (59.992Hz)
Output Type: Internal
Driver Name: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver File Version: 9.18.0013.4752 (English)
Driver Version: 9.18.13.4752
DDI Version: 11
Feature Levels: 11.0,10.1,10.0,9.3,9.2,9.1
Driver Model: WDDM 1.3
Graphics Preemption: DMA
Compute Preemption: DMA

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System Information

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Time of this report: 2/17/2015, 12:56:37
Machine name: ALIENWARE
Operating System: Windows 8.1 64-bit (6.3, Build 9600) (9600.winblue_r7.150109-2022)
Language: German (Regional Setting: German)
System Manufacturer: Alienware
System Model: Alienware 17
BIOS: A14
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4910MQ CPU @ 2.90GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.9GHz
Memory: 32768MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 32692MB RAM
Page File: 12128MB used, 25426MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.03.9600.17415 64bit Unicode

Dear CCP,

since the launcher update the client cannot be started from the launcher but only from the binary itself.
After I downloaded the launcher update it looks like this:

Screenshot of the broken launcher


When I enter my passwd the launcher does nothing. Right now it does not indicate if it is updateing the
client or not. Thus, no Tiamat.

Any suggestions?
Regards,
Tass.


EDIT:
It looks like it is about to update since a tail -f on the logfile shows some downloading…

EDIT2:
The client did update and Tiamat is up and running. The launcher is still b0rken.

EDIT3:
Interestingly, the launcher works perfectly for SiSi-server. Now, you tell me …

EDIT4:
As of today's patch (19.Feb.) the launcher launches as intended. Dunno why but something
went correctly. Well done!
Now get the beta-map to not crash OSX to blackscreen

Sorry, I posted on the MAC forums by accident :-D

The launcher works fine on my MacBook Air. But ran into an issue with audio.

Ran a "Hideaway" combat site in Murini and noticed the chatter sounds of the pirates persisted after clearing the site. The sounds continued during warp back to station and after dock. Haven't logged back in yet to see if the NPC ghosts are still haunting me ;)

Edit: NPC "ghosts" were gone on next login. After another NPC encounter in combat site, I noticed the ghost sounds stopped if I targeted a wreck for salvage. But if I do nothing except warp away, the sounds persist from gate to gate and dock/undock. Targeting other objects (instead of wrecks) has no effect. Also noticed the sounds persist if another capsuler in a belt engages the NPCs.

Update #1

Having done a hard reboot of my iMac, the launcher now stalls upon starting up. The yellow progress bar at the bottom of the screen stays gray. I get the spinning beachball and, in activity manager, the launcher shows (not responding). Have to force quit launcher.

Tried this 3x. Same result.

Going to try starting the game directly from the app next.

Same setup here - no weirdness on my end - EVE starts normally through the launcher (which isn't to say I have any explanation).

Arthur, it is possibly some of my difficulties are a result of having used my time machine backup from my older 2009 iMac to get this new one up and running without having to re-install every piece of software, etc from scratch.

Apple has suggested I delete any of these transferred apps that are having problems and do a fresh install directly from the newest installer rather than from the time machine backup.

I haven't tried this yet because, frankly, it's too painful just THINKING about trying to re-install EVE from scratch.
Maybe some day when I'm bored to tears I might try it as an experiment.

Did you do a new install on your Retina iMac? If so, that might explain a lot.

Hey i cant get on at all. Seems to be issue with the mac launcher. It is stuck at only 2% of the 1.1G

Been trying all morning and now afternoon.

when is a fix going to happen?

same problem.
i've created a ticket on the issue
patching is stuck on 2 percent on mac retina pro
crashes
and goes all over again
wtf
fix this pls