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If you're thinking of trying the 10.10.3 beta

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Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#1 - 2015-03-04 03:55:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Dersen Lowery
...don't try playing EVE.

[EDIT: The behavior described below is fixed in the latest 10.10.3 beta release!]

Wow.

In-space graphics work. Ships are rendered correctly. The whole UI, including the login screen, is an inscrutable mess of blocks and glitches. All text is rendered as various sizes and colors of rectangle. Icons are missing or garbled beyond recognition in the NEOCOM, the HUD, all windows, the overview and the circular menus. Portraits are completely missing. The CQ looks like a bad acid trip.

Fair warning!

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Praxus Kretoria
Defiance Industrial Core
#2 - 2015-03-04 05:02:29 UTC
I am very upset that there is nothing that can be done. My eve days are over. I only use mac.
Nomby Altol
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2015-03-04 06:36:54 UTC
This is not the end. WINE port works well in 10.10.3 or re-install OS X up till 10.10.2. The .3 update is now released as public beta, I would see some hope that this will be fix very soon :D
CCP Sledgehammer
C C P
C C P Alliance
#4 - 2015-03-04 11:16:55 UTC
Hi folks, we have our partners actively looking into this issue at the moment. We hope to have it resolved soon.

Graphical QA Analyst | EVE Quality Assurance | Team TriLambda
Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#5 - 2015-03-04 13:31:22 UTC
Thanks, CCP Sledgehammer.

And just to be clear, I'm warning people away from a beta, not going after you guys. Glitches happen in betas.

At least your launcher works. Star Trek Online's is a featureless black box.

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Cassandra Rex
Perkone
Caldari State
#6 - 2015-03-04 17:20:27 UTC
Just to confirm, same issue on the Beta. Had to go to the back up box for EvE. Also confirm that this does not happen on other games. Occurs using both integrated and discrete graphics chips as well. Looks like some sort of font change in addition to whatever else the graphics setting in 10.10.3 beta have garbled. Made report to Apple with regard to issues as well. Looking forward to a quick fix prior to the release of 10.10.3 proper from Apple. Shocked
Solhild
Doomheim
#7 - 2015-03-04 21:28:28 UTC
Praxus Kretoria wrote:
I am very upset that there is nothing that can be done. My eve days are over. I only use mac.


I have the beta but run EVE in parallels (windows virtualisation) just fine.
Lem Anima
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2015-03-05 17:26:10 UTC
If anybody interested, here is the first topic about that problem: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=402955&find=unread
Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#9 - 2015-03-05 21:55:11 UTC
Lem Anima wrote:
If anybody interested, here is the first topic about that problem: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=402955&find=unread


I was going to post some screenshots, but given the reaction to that thread, maybe I won't.

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Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#10 - 2015-03-12 23:40:58 UTC
OK, here's a screenshot: https://flic.kr/p/rAnrHH

Note the bug report window, recognizable by the bright orange blocks(!) toward the lower right of center. That makes it a bit hard to send much in the way of in-game bug reports or logs.

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CCP Sledgehammer
C C P
C C P Alliance
#11 - 2015-03-13 10:07:58 UTC
Just to give an update on this issue, our partners have investigated and it turns out this is a problem with nVidia drivers in Yosemite 10.3. nVidia themselves are aware of the issue.

Graphical QA Analyst | EVE Quality Assurance | Team TriLambda
Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#12 - 2015-03-13 13:48:05 UTC
CCP Sledgehammer wrote:
Just to give an update on this issue, our partners have investigated and it turns out this is a problem with nVidia drivers in Yosemite 10.3. nVidia themselves are aware of the issue.


Excellent. Thanks for the update!

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Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#13 - 2015-03-18 13:33:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Dersen Lowery
As of the latest beta release, the NVIDIA bug is fixed; what remains is that avatar rendering is a mostly transparent, hallucinatory patchwork. It's entirely possible to play the game, so this is not nearly as big a deal, but the character creator/editor and the full body preview and CQ are... visually interesting.

Would it help to submit a bug report from CQ?

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