Macintosh

sounds like people may be talking of two problems here, 1 is graphics freezing, and 1 is client crashing. Well now i have everything else closed down, including I-tunes, eve runs no problem (so far, as i'll probably jinx myself).

well i'm happy with performance now, the only application i have running in the background are

adobe reader,
wine helper,
firefox
and finder,

And i've not had a graphics freeze (which was always my problem) since i last wrote on this page.

Something CCP patched the EvE client with has made it very sensitive to background programs, i used to have all sorts running, i think i can remember most.

MAC microsoft office, all programs.
bit torrent
i-tunes
photo booth
(as well as above)

I think that's it, so something from one of them (i think, as i'm not an expert bug finder or programmer) was causing my problem, could be different programs for different people, i don't know. But as someone quoted above, they found client more stable when they closed down other programs, but not completely stable. Well close down absolutely everything you can, and got a completely stable client.

Hopefully this info may be of use to CCP, in finding out what the cause is, as i have a top spec 27" i-mac which is capable of running many things at once with eve also running. Hope this is a good work around for people, good luck.

Please post here if it works for you, may help CCP do something about it.

2 to 3 an hour is not excellent. I get maybe one a week, and I think that is too much. I wonder if this from the patch notes has anything to do with the issue:

"The clock of clients is now synchronized regularly with the server to reduce problems (like freezes at jumping) caused by unstable client clocks."

Could the Mac client with the Cider wrapper get a messed up clock more easily? Im assuming the client clock is different from the system clock, although Im not quite sure whats going on here.

nothing has changed with the new patch (crucible 1,1)

Lots of freezing. Lots of crashing. Even had to delete and re-install the game due to the black screen problem listed in another thread. No background programs running.

Huge delay when jumping into another system. Doesn't matter what time, what region, or what local count.
I give up on CCP help. Typical dev response, it must obviously be my internet connection...despite the fact that lots of other users are experiencing the same issues, and no other program or game that I run has these same problems.

This works every time for me....

Have any bit torrent program running in background ( tried Vuze and uTorrent ), or even just run adobe updater and freeze within 3 mins max. *Edit* > usually 30 seconds.

Seems the Mac build , for me. can't handle any program in background that uses web access. Though Mail and Safari don't cause it.

Very rarely, maybe once every 20hrs of game time I'll get a freeze that seems to be window driven, e.g. viewing contracts from item info link with something else open as well, seems to take 3 to 4 windows open to cause it.

HTH.

Interesting... I just got a freeze while getting near an acceleration gate to a mission.

I had just entered the client, checked one or another price in market window and out into the space.

Screenshot:
http://cl.ly/2g0f1F3r2J3W0s1b0c26

Link for the EVEcrashlog.log as requested via cider:
http://cl.ly/1T042e3Y3n261d0x440f

Last lines of the log:
0005:err:ntdll:display_wait_error Timeout. Retry with 60 secs: crit=0x70137fe0 name="The CriticalSection CriticalSection" ec=6 cc=6
0005:err:ntdll:display_wait_error backtrace=(null)
0005:err:ntdll:display_wait_error crit (0x70137fe0): lc 212 rc 207 ot 12 sem 155171 spin 0

Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac11,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: IM111.0034.B02
SMC Version (system): 1.54f36

System Software Overview:
System Version: Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50)
Kernel Version: Darwin 11.3.0
Boot Volume: Mac OS X
Boot Mode: Normal
Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled
64-bit Kernel and Extensions: Yes
Time since boot: 19:28

And another...

SShot:
http://cl.ly/1F2H0a1i3N1L1F0S0G26

Log:
http://cl.ly/1o392P3h3n1C3s1d3y1q

Something has changed but I am not sure if it is an improvement or not. Game still freeze randomly (seems to be graphics only since char will continue to be logged into the game and probably also keeps doing what it did) but some of the freezes now only last 5-10sec. AFAIK that used to not be the case. Now, if these events represent new behavior of the old perpetual freezes it is a slight improvement. But it may also just be a new bug.

Had two freezes today and both yet again resulted in the problem with restarting the client (splash screen and nothing more after that). Both times the client froze when I started to type something into the search field in the market window. Maybe this helps with isolating the problem, although I doubt it...

Both freezes resulted in the problem with the client no longer starting up (nothing comes after the splash screen). I had this after almost all my freezes so far, which could be a result of force quitting the client. But that's the only way for me to get rid of the frozen client.

Anyways, there's a thread which has the solution to that problem (client startup). Seems I can't link it here cause somehow the forum doesn't accept the url, no matter if plain or embedded as a link. Look for the thread titled '~Crucible Crash Fix Thread~' and you'll find it.

I was able to improve the solution of the original poster such that I no longer lose all my preferences, etc. (see that thread for the details). It comes down to two files which somehow get corrupted either during the client freeze or force quitting it then. Deleting them makes the client start again and I now retain all my settings. If it's associated with the freeze rather than force quit, maybe this helps finding the source of the problem...