I didnt notice this freeze untill i used the clonemaker, are any of you using multiple clients? If you wait long enough does the client eventually crash?

In my case it's a constant: it can happen sooner or later, with 1 or 4 clients, but it happens every time.
I even tried running it on a fresh boot with no other apps running (well, apart from Finder, of course), and it still happens.

That's what makes me wonder whether they even actually test the Mac client or just rely on cider to do the work for them...

There were some fairly major changes under the hood with today's patch, can some of you comment on how you are affected by freezes currently (after 06/25/2012) ?

Please mention which version of OSX you're using in your replies and note anything before 10.6.7 is not supported.

Running 2 clients I freeze up randomly on both accounts.

Running 1 idem, just by doing nothing. I do use EVE Cloner, maybe that's it?

Processor 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 16 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)


Been a long time for me to encounter the Mac client in this kind of poor shape. :(
But I know you boys & girls will fix it. :)


EDIT: I had a torrent running in the back, forgot about that. Maybe Vincent is onto something.

Interestingly, this is really not consistent at all. I had a day yesterday without any freeze and I played quite a bit. Other days I'll get a freeze every 5 minutes.
From what I saw in the sampling I managed to get, the game is not actually freezed, just deadlocked, so the rendering and events won't get handled. But the sound is still running (when it's enabled).

I'm still trying to reproduce, but even though I'm doing quite the same things while in game, there seems to be no consistent pattern at all.

[Edit : typo]

Has any devs even looked at the issue many of us are getting of the entire game freezing on the character screen!? I cant even get on the game!

Or forgetting to make sure he is in fleet....


We know about this problem and I also have these freezes from time to time on this iMac (but not very often). Unfortunately this seems to be very difficult to fix.

It's a "Dock" not a.. a.. taskbar.. *shudder*

This is usually how it happens; however, it can happen just in-game as well.

A note to those who are unaware:
These crashes are caused by a memory leak that was introduced in Crucible (I... think it was Crucible). It has yet to be tracked down, and while there is no fix for it, it is entirely possible to manage it and keep your computer from freezing.

Download the app Memory Free 2:
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/memory-free-2/id460794201?mt=12

MF2 will display your current RAM usage in the menu bar as a pie chart. Green is free memory, blue is inactive memory. As EVE runs idly, the blue section will slowly fill up. If you have no more green (free) memory left, EVE will hang. When you see your free memory is running low and the blue inactive memory is filling up, click the Free Now button (which you will usually have to restart MF2 to activate, for whatever reason).

Since installing MF2, I have never had the game hang on me in this fashion.

Thanks for posting those. Unfortunately, that's a lot of low settings, which means either that the cause of the leak/freeze is some particularly obscure settings cocktail, or that there are so many of them that you practically have to turn the game off to avoid them all.

This is still happening to everyone else, right? Random freeze/lockup that results in a force-quit, that can happen as often as every 15-20 minutes, regardless of cleared cache/validated cache/etc?

I've scoured the forums and elsewhere looking for a solution, but nothing seems to be working and I just want to hear from the dark that I'm not alone.

I'm new here, just picked it up when it was on sale from Steam recently. Haven't had any problems with the launcher or sound that I've been seeing; it's literally just the freezing bug (I write that like it's a minor thing).

I don't know if this issue has come up for anyone else but when i try and do any reprocessing and hover over the tool tip for the waste. It hard locks the game music stil plays in the backround but i need to Ctrl Alt Del. end tack the game after doing it.

I have tryed it 3 times all with the same results. Nothing gets teh game back up and running agian but to end tack and re load/ log back in.

Anyone else having this problem?

also i tryed it in a cargo container and just in normal items hanger.. both crash the game the same way...

I want to state that I am still looking into this issue but as Vincent mentioned it's very hard to track down.

I am having the same issues as above. I am constantly freezing. What intrigues me is that the frozen client seems to continue to send out information. If i have my pilot on auto, and it freezes... i can leave it there and he continues about his merry way like i'm actually controlling him. If I am mining ice or something to that effect, everything continues as if the freeze never happened.

I have also experienced where my clients won't freeze but like once for an entire day, or just one will freeze over and over.... really odd and difficult to pin down behavior. but all through this thread I didn't see anyone mentioning that it seemed to keep in contact with the server, and the video seems to be the only thing frozen (at least for my freezes).

Most people probably don't notice because they instantly close the client... but I was curious a few times, and have actually left an orca boosting for an hour or so "crashed" because I didn't want to bother reloading the client, and it was perfectly safe at the time.