Macintosh

So I've managed to get a few sessions in doing a few different things and my impression is mixed.

Firstly, the client is much smoother in terms of responsiveness and graphics. Haven't run more than two clients at a time, but I don't EVER recall the FPS counter resting at 40-60. Even with certain effects and settings set to high. I wish I had known it worked this way sooner. I'm going to geuss that installation + me = RIP.

Now the issues.

I couldn't list them all because there are a lot of specific instances and unique situations, but the most annoying and inhibiting are actually pretty bad.

Windows dissapear. I don't know how to explain this other than they open from wherever they were minimized and not even a second later completely transparent. I know the window is there by seeing and selecting it by alt-tabbing and I can still interact with buttons (have no idea which buttons though). Happened with both the maps, fitting screen, cargo window, and all at varying settings. The worst part of that, was that even the esc menu was missing. The screen would fade color and nothing would show up, buttons and tooltip a still showed up.

the map has many graphical bugs. Either I can't see any colors, lines, shapes, or labels (usually not all at once. Sometimes the actual graphics representing stars and their connections and such, would appear on the opposite side of the screen (residing outside the map window) with labels still in the map. Still fully interacts me somehow. Both maps had a tendency to do some sort of ghosting or whatever it's called when the after image is left behind. There's a few more but I would need to see them again to get a good example.

Some of the resolution settings seem to be acting funny. I normally play on my MPB (1200x1080) and a 32" TV (don't know res off hand). Playing the largest window size on the tv works fine, but setting any client to 1200x1030(?)(the OS X one that accounts for window bar up top) causes a weird shift where the screen content gets shoved under the window bar and all the buttons are shifted slightly so that I have to click slightly below them to actually click on it. Does not seem to be an issue in full screen or fixed window (which is a neat little feature btw). It also seems that all window settings are just ever so slightly shorter than the cider sizes. There's a small sliver of my desktop visible that wasn't there before.

I'm really loving the performance increase a lot, however these bugs are making certain features and settings become 'sensitive' areas that I don't touch for fear of getting stuck in the middle of something important.

Also in addition to my earlier post about the cider version being botched, I took a quick peek at the LogLite logs (haven't submitted bug report yet) and it seems the recurring error is something about a ballpark not responding after 30 tries.

I've published a new Wine build, built from the stable branch (1.8.1). This build runs on the one machine I found inhouse where the previous build would fail.

I'm curious to see if this improves the situation for anyone that was unable to run before - please report back!

Well report back when I arrive home! Thanks for all your great work! o7

Please file a bug report from within the game, with screenshots. It's easy to lose track of things reported in forum threads and I want to be sure to fix those issues!

This is wonderful. I will switch from PlayOnMac immediately.

One thing that would be great to get working is the SSL problems with certain sites in the in game browser. This affects zkillboard and tripwire.

You can see the error by going to these URLs in the in game browser:

• http://zkillboard.com/
• https://static.eve-apps.com/css/landing/media.queries.css

I asked on Tweetfleet slack in the #mac-and-linux room and one of the ISDs mentioned that's because it's trying to use TLS:



I opened a similar issue for the tripwire dev https://bitbucket.org/daimian/tripwire/issues/103/ssl-issues-using-in-game-browser-and-wine but it doesn't sound like it's really a problem with their end.

It would be great if the wine install would tweak what needs to be tweaked to get the IGB to work. Several wormhole corps use tripwire location tracking and that becomes a deal breaker for wine recruits.

I can also try out some WINEDEBUG switches if anyone knows what I could experiment with.

Thanks for the awesome work CCP!

After todays update, the WINE option is working on my MacPro! Thanks for fixing it !

Clicking "retry" when this happens works for me.

Suddenly, EVE is pretty. <3 Sadly, nearly every time I press Play to launch my client, I get a message to the effect that:



No EVE clients are running. LogLIte is pinwheeling. I will update as soon as I can query it.

EDIT: "error 2016-03-09T22:48:18 16452 /Applications/EVE Launcher.app/Contents/MacOS/evelauncher Sunrise.local evelauncher default "tq" update failed with a disk write error"

Running OS X 10.11.

EDIT: Unlike Invisusira's, my client launches normally after I choose Yes.

For those of you that got it working, does the client change window size on each launch? (If you are running in windowed mode).

Mine keeps growing by a few pixels each time I load a client, just wondering if anyone else is having this issue, or if its some strange byproduct of having had playonmac installed, and running eve via wine with that before using CCP's new wine method.

So its happening to you swell, well it's good to know I'm not the only one, I wonder if there is a fix, or way yo lock the resolution so it doesn't slightly change each time you launch the client.