Since todays patch it's happened to me twice, one of which resulted in a ship and capsule loss (Due to no E-Warp apparently 3 mins after)

The screen suddenly starts making strange black areas flashing then completely crashes, however the applications appear to still all be working. The only result to quit EVE is to force shutdown the computer.

The mouse still moves but clicking anything does nothing.

EVE is completely unplayable like this and this needs to be fixed asap.

Nvidia 9400M
2.53 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
OSX 10.9.1

Another one here with problems, everything was fine until today, after the patch, EVE just doesnt start, after clicking "play" nothing happens :/

Everything at low/off with all middle ticks "unticked" I still have this problem. Seems to arise - at least for me - from right clicking in space.

Different issue though, try and bypass the launcher.

Right click your eve client -> Show Package contents -> Contents -> Resources -> Click EVE Online then it should go onto the login screen ingame.

Eerything was fine until today, after the patch, EVE just doesnt start, after clicking connect nothing happens.. black screen and I dont use launcher..

I tried to do the same procedure but re-activating full screen mode and my MacBook get frozen again
The only way for the moment seems to be the window mode... until new patch...

I finally managed !!!

1. Open client : right click on the the App and then "show package contents/Contents/Ressources/EVE Online
2. before authenticating : Settings / window mode / Apply
3. Authenticate and launch... the window get black and all screen frozen for 30 seconds and unfreeze and seems to work properly.

What settings do you mean? in the launcher or in the contents menu?

Some others mentioned setting Shader quality down. How do I do that, if a can't even choose my character so i don't get to any settings options...?

If you launch the application without the launcher (right clic on EVE Online icone then select "Show Package contents" in the contextual menu, and in the package go to Contents/Ressources. Here you have the application Eve Online).

When you do this and when it works you arrive on the previous Home screen where you have a Settings button. By clicking on this button you access to settings window in which you can tune your EVE environnement. And you can do this before connecting and choose your character.

Thanks, found it but sadly didn't solve my problem. I set everything to the lowest possible and switched to windowed mode, but I still have the same problem. Black screen, mouse is moving and music is playing, but don't see my char, so I obviously can't choose it to play and can't even close EVE. Only solution is to restart manually...

We are investigating!

We are investigating!

Yay

Hopefully we can get an update on when we would get a fix applied?

There is a patch tomorrow that has a fix for flickering in UI. We have not been able to reproduce this issue but there is a chance these issues are related so check again after tomorrow's downtime. If there is no improvement we will of course keep investigating.

Many people said that going to windowed mode and bypassing the launcher helps this issue. I do not have this bug, and I always play in windowed mode. I also use client clones and those bypass the launcher.

So I fired up my main install, set full screen, logged into my Jita alt and warped about for 10 minutes. No issue. So its something else.

There is a patch tomorrow that has a fix for flickering in UI. We have not been able to reproduce this issue but there is a chance these issues are related so check again after tomorrow's downtime. If there is no improvement we will of course keep investigating.

Since todays patch it's happened to me many times, one of which resulted in a ship and capsule loss (Due to no E-Warp apparently 3 mins after).

After playing EVE and being in space for 5 minutes it happens. It's frequent.

The screen suddenly starts making strange black areas flashing then completely crashes, however the applications appear to still all be working. The only result to quit EVE is to force shutdown the computer.

The mouse still moves but clicking anything does nothing.

EVE is completely unplayable like this and this needs to be fixed asap.

Solution I listed has been removed, it changed NOTHING. EVE is still unplayable with these freezes.

Nvidia 9400M
2.53 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
OSX 10.9.1

After the patch.It still flickers.

We are still not able to repro this problem inhouse, but we are still investigating.

Are you sure you are trying it on a mac?

I was working fine until 2 days ago and now I can't log in on my mac. I've already lost training time as I wasn't able to add a skill to the plan.

I find it a bit hard to believe that there are so many mac users on here that are having the same black screen issue and you can't 'reproduce the problem.'

Are you sure you are trying it on a mac?

I was working fine until 2 days ago and now I can't log in on my mac. I've already lost training time as I wasn't able to add a skill to the plan.

I find it a bit hard to believe that there are so many mac users on here that are having the same black screen issue and you can't 'reproduce the problem.'

I appreciate that this is frustrating, but the fact is that this is not happening on all Macs - see https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4195477#post4195477 for example. We would also have noticed if there was a significant drop in logins from Macs. This makes it harder for us to track down, but we are still working on it.

//EDIT:
I managed to launch the game again by bypassing the launcher and then, in the settings, disabling OpenGL and setting intval mode to immediate. Maybe after all it is a graphic issue and collides with openGL?

Can you guys check, if OpenGL is checked on your settings?

I'm on 10.7.5 and having the problem.

My mac is from 2009.
2.5 Intel Core 2 Duo
4gb ram
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB

The ingame crashing problem is made worse by the fact that it is not, in fact, a crash.

Rather, the UI freezes, while the rest of the client chunks away happily. This is why you don't disappear from space.

This problem has been around for a long time but it is getting steadily worse. Before todays patch, I couldn't go more than 15 minutes without a freeze.

At one point, I had one copy of the client with the frozen UI, and another one happily bumping the the frozen toon's ship. As soon as I force-quit the first copy of the app, he ewarped off.

If the game freezes, instead of doing a hard reset, try holding Command + Alt + Escape - this is the Ctrl Alt Delete equivalent in OSX. It has worked for me every time by automatically closing out the current application (which is Eve) and if it doesn't, then it should allow you to force quit the application manually.

As for the actual freezing problem, someone mentioned in another thread to disable Eve voice chat and it apparently worked as my game has not crashed since. Worth a shot.

Also forgot to mention that holding Command + Alt + Shift + Escape for about 3 seconds will definitely terminate the current application.

Please get this fixed. My training queue is inactive for the first time in 2 years. Everyone on these forums seems to be getting the exact same issue on the same type of hardware since the same patch. Come on ccp if it is never going to get fixed tell us now so we can cancel subscription.

Frustrating on so many levels, It can't be that hard to replicate in house surely?

Any form of update from CCP would be most welcome at this time.

Seem the problem been resolved!


Clear all cache file on client.
Clear all settings.
Deleted all overview setting.

Restart client with all video setting to max.

Lower video setting to your choice

From now never freezed.

I am experiencing the exact same black screen issue. I'm running Mac OS X 10.8.5 on an iMac 21.5-inch late 2009 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo w/ 4 GB 1067 MHz RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB graphics card. Here is the log

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I would very much like to know if my computer becomes officially unsupported by CCP as soon as possible. I really do not want to buy a new computer but I will if y'all officially give up on solving this problem and that's what it takes. Is there any other way I can update my training queue other than installing EVE on a computer that works?

The GeForce 9400m is technically below our minspec (see http://www.eveonline.com/faq/client-system-requirements/) so it might be time to get a new computer.

We haven't given up on this yet, but so far we've been unable to repro this issue and we no longer have working Macs that fit your specs. The only changes to low level graphics code in Rubicon 1.1 have been to address crashes (or work around driver crashes) so we can't simply revert those - we have to find solutions that work on all the different configs out there.

The GeForce 9400m is technically below our minspec (see http://www.eveonline.com/faq/client-system-requirements/) so it might be time to get a new computer.

The GeForce 9400m is technically below our minspec (see http://www.eveonline.com/faq/client-system-requirements/) so it might be time to get a new computer.

We haven't given up on this yet, but so far we've been unable to repro this issue and we no longer have working Macs that fit your specs. The only changes to low level graphics code in Rubicon 1.1 have been to address crashes (or work around driver crashes) so we can't simply revert those - we have to find solutions that work on all the different configs out there.

I believe this was mentioned earlier, but to confirm. My main character locks up about 30 secs after undocking. A newbie char I created for fun works fine. Running mac with geForce 9400 video card. Seems odd it works with on character and not another.

Seem the problem been resolved!


Clear all cache file on client.
Clear all settings.
Deleted all overview setting.

Restart client with all video setting to max.

Lower video setting to your choice

From now never freezed.

I tried the Windows client on a VMware virtual machine... not better, black screen... etc...

And for CCP saying our problems are below supported system requirements the 320m is having problems as well, 320m isn't below supported system requirements, it meets it.

Well at least we have other games we can play until it's resolved...

I think this is appalling. How can you suddenly blame people's hardware when this is clearly an issue from a small patch that was supposed to fix small graphical problems etc. the simple fact is before your patch on the 4th of Feb these supposedly out dated machines were still running the eve client perfectly well.

How do you intend to compensate mac users?

Disgraceful

I've tested this on another MacBook and it wasn't working there either it has the same graphics card. BUT when I tested it on an iMac that has the new ATI graphics card it worked great, ended up playing for two hours and setting up my skill tree lol. So yeah it's definitely the older graphics cards.

PS is any one playing on bootcamp? I am going to try and load windows on this mac, 20010 MBP.

Coming here as every day since 4 February I have struggled to enter Eve Online. The character selection screen is blank and the dock is flickering. If i leave Eve open and go to a firefox screen that flickers. I can enter the game if I can click on the correct bit of a totally black screen, but I'm having to run windowed with my bottom modules hidden if I do get in and it's hard work.

I cannot fathom the mac client logging. There's nothing I can see in the launcher log. Looking at my mac's logs I am getting a lot of Nvidia errors, many times a second:

08/02/2014 10:51:50.000 kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error

This is an example of the graphics problems I have had http://imgur.com/8Yp0YYa

I'm running on a 2009 pre-recession 13 inch macbook pro with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M. It worked (except station environment) until Tuesday :(

Snorlax, could you take a look at the map bug too?

This indicates that the Nvidia driver is in a bad state, whether that is a genuine driver bug or our code is somehow corrupting something in the driver. Generally application code should not be able to this sort of exception - the driver should handle things gracefully even if the app is doing something wrong, and simply return appropriate error codes.

The only changes in low level graphics code in recent patches were to address similar issues in drivers we'd seen under Windows. Often those kinds of fixes simply involve doing things differently - sometimes the old code is perfectly valid (and runs fine on other hardware, with a different driver).

We have a couple of ideas of things we could change that might affect this issue, but the risk is that some of the issues we were trying to fix rear their ugly heads again so we need to test those changes carefully. I'd also really prefer to see a repro case inhouse that we can then use to verify that those changes indeed fix the issue. So far we've been unsuccessful with that - none of the Macs we have exhibit any of those symptoms. Admittedly we do not have one with the 9400m card, but the issue has been reported on the 320m. We do have such a Mac, and the character selection screen shows up fine there (as well as all the other Macs).

There must be more factors involved that we haven't worked out yet - this is too consistent to be random, but it's not just the graphics card. We'll keep digging until we find something. When we do, I'm pretty sure the issue will be fixed on the 9400m as well as the newer cards.

I'm having no problems logging in, and the game plays well untilGÇöthis is the pattern thatGÇÖs been emerging over the last couple of daysGÇöI go to change anything in my overview settings. The moment I click that overview settings button, the screen starts flickering and everything freezes up. Playing in windowed mode, I can just let this sit for a while and see what happens, and it usually comes out of the freeze after 10 to 15 seconds for a momentGÇöjust long enough for me to see that thereGÇÖs movement and maybe hit a Dock-commandGÇöbut with totally wiped out graphicsGÇösome textures unloaded, or changed beyond recognition (a bright pink Caldari Food Processing Plant, anyone?)GÇöbefore freezing up again for another period.

Have to admit that I, too, am playing with the sub-spec GeForce 9400M card on a 2009 MacBook. We were given plenty of warning when the system requirements were increased that the 9400M wasnGÇÖt going to cut it in the long run. So if this is hardware related, no worries: I need to upgrade at some point anyway. If itGÇÖs a software problem, though, looking forward to the fix. In the meantime, IGÇÖm only changing overview settings in windowed mode and close to a station (of whatever colour).

Grateful that I don't seem to have it as bad as others. I seem to be able to login OK. I can't play as normal though. I'm not taking any fleets out and risking other players ships, because I can't pull up the map, I can't really go into low or null sec safely.

Today I had my first "right click crash" where right clicking in space was all that was needed to generate another hard crash. I crash 3 or 4 times a day now. Takes out the whole computer. In just about every case for me it happens when a window is being called/opened. Be that a Map window, a web browser window.

I'm also grateful CCP has someone like CCP Snorlax keeping us up to date. We know your working on this. People in this thread have also all been really helpful and for the most part, kept it very positive. As a developer myself I know it makes CCP Snorlax's job much easier when he can focus on the problem and not have to deal with difficult people.

As we approach a full week of major issues that pretty much affects the entire Mac platform, (sure, it's not the largest, but still no less important than other segments) of not of not being able to play as normal, it might be worth considering reverting to the old code that was in place before the problems started? That is ultimately the common thread. Everyone's problems started after the 1.1x patch.

I know that companies set deadlines and goals that need to be met. Sometimes things get pushed out the door before they are ready to meet a deadlines. This may not have been the case here, I am not in a position to know. I just know that sometimes it happens.

While initial efforts to fix the problem are greatly appreciated, at some point there will come a time where it is better to save face and revert to the old code . Resolving the problem in the short term while development continues to fix the code and bring back the latest updates.

I don't know when the point in time is. A week, a week and a half, two weeks? The potential is there for this to become an even bigger customer service issue for CCP. I don't want to see that happen and hope that CCP has a date set, were if you can't resolve the issue, you revert the code (short term fix) and keep that segment of your customer base positive. I would not think negatively of CCP if they did this. On the contrary I think it is the right thing to do.

Having a lot of angry customers who are paying for something and not getting what they are paying for is really bad for any company for so many reasons. CCP has been very responsive and without question has shown to take this issue very seriously. I have nothing but good things to say about their whole approach to the problem. I know they are on our side and while it's only a game, it's still a product / service that we subscribe to and pay for. I'm not asking for my money back. I'm very patient. I just don't want to get to the point were patience runs out, not just for me but for this entire market segment.

So please, set a date if you have not already. A deadline. Where either a solution has been found and deployed or revert the code. Don't just rule it out and say it's not possible. ItGÇÖs not just old Macs that are affected. And while you're at it, hop on Craig's list and go buy a couple old used Macs. In the grand scheme of things, the cost of a couple of old used Macs is far less aggravating an entire segment of your user base.

In the mean time, I'll keep testing the patches and giving you what ever feedback I can and hopefully what I have written here has remained positive like some many other posts before mine.

Thank you for all you are doing to get us fully back up and running, crash free.

The problem is if the old code was brought back before these problems started happening, the AMD cards will then have an issue. What broke EVE for the Mac users and many other users was fixing the AMD issue.

So this is the third thread started about this issue. Obviously you guys are just so frustrated that you haven't bothered to even see if anyone else has this problem and posted a thread about it. Pretty retarted...

But you personally posted in this thread like 4 times already... lol I guess you are speaking from experience, of the frustration of course.

I have posted in all of them :D

So this is the third thread started about this issue. Obviously you guys are just so frustrated that you haven't bothered to even see if anyone else has this problem and posted a thread about it. Pretty retarted...

Well i'm in game..... skill queue updated. Honestly i can't see what's wrong... everything looks as it should. Able to undock and fly around.... i suppose at some point it will **** up on me, but for now.... i'm actually online.

I was the first one to make a thread about this exact issue. Constently freezing up is a 3 year old thread, therefore I made this one since it's a new issue.

I told other people to post in the blackout issue for the blackout issue since it's not the exact same issue. I have the flicker crash issue.

But I was the first to make a thread for this issue I'm reporting.

Been almost a week of no EVE

We have not had any luck in reproing this, but we have a patch going out tomorrow where we have at least an attempted fix.

I've gone through all changes to the graphics engine that went out in the patch that seems to have triggered the black screen on character select, and we're basically reverting those changes when running on a Mac. We're grasping at straws here, but I feel we have to try something.

I've had the same issue, and will at the least expect some compensation... I mean, it's not as if the currency is "real". Anyway, it would make all us EvE'ers feel a whole lot better.

Personally, I'd like 20 days of instant skilling. Just pick a skill, and skill up 20 days... Sounds good to me... In Eve, how you use time is worth a whole hell of a lot more than just pure PLEX.

If I receive PLEX for this issue, I'll be forced to start some kind of protest...

We have not had any luck in reproing this, but we have a patch going out tomorrow where we have at least an attempted fix.

I've gone through all changes to the graphics engine that went out in the patch that seems to have triggered the black screen on character select, and we're basically reverting those changes when running on a Mac. We're grasping at straws here, but I feel we have to try something.

We have not had any luck in reproing this, but we have a patch going out tomorrow where we have at least an attempted fix.

I've gone through all changes to the graphics engine that went out in the patch that seems to have triggered the black screen on character select, and we're basically reverting those changes when running on a Mac. We're grasping at straws here, but I feel we have to try something.

We have not had any luck in reproing this, but we have a patch going out tomorrow where we have at least an attempted fix.

I've gone through all changes to the graphics engine that went out in the patch that seems to have triggered the black screen on character select, and we're basically reverting those changes when running on a Mac. We're grasping at straws here, but I feel we have to try something.

We have not had any luck in reproing this, but we have a patch going out tomorrow where we have at least an attempted fix.

I've gone through all changes to the graphics engine that went out in the patch that seems to have triggered the black screen on character select, and we're basically reverting those changes when running on a Mac. We're grasping at straws here, but I feel we have to try something.

2/10/14 9:02:46.000 PM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error

2/10/14 9:02:46.598 PM Console[504]: setPresentationOptions called with NSApplicationPresentationFullScreen when there is no visible fullscreen window; this call will be ignored.

This might be a silly question. But have you tried to repro this in windowed mode instead of full screen? Although the predominate error message that scrolls by is , one of the errors that rolled by my log screen was, and made me think that perhaps that all of us that are experiencing this are running eve in windowed mode? Just a guess.

We have not had any luck in reproing this, but we have a patch going out tomorrow where we have at least an attempted fix.

I've gone through all changes to the graphics engine that went out in the patch that seems to have triggered the black screen on character select, and we're basically reverting those changes when running on a Mac. We're grasping at straws here, but I feel we have to try something.

Sorry, something went wrong in prepping the patch, it will be delayed until tomorrow. I'm hoping to get the build out on a test server today so we can at least see if the code change helps - check back later for details.

Hello all,

maybe my experience will help.

I am running EVE Multibox (I mean more than one client simultaneously) on my Mac Mini Late 2009 upgraded with SSD disk and 8GB RAM.
My EVE Client is set to lowest graphics in windowed app (no fullscreen)

I have client data cloned to multiple starting icons (done with EVE Clone Maker - https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Multiple_clients#Using_the_EVE_Clonemaker; link to forum - https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=17208)) so I am starting directly to login screen (no launcher)

I am experiencing a black window after entering my login credentials and system is not responding for few second.

To complete login I have to click on dark screen in place where is usually character I want to play (1st third from left if I want to play with my last-played character) and then login continues to login normally, usually with no other graphical problems.

Normal start (no clicking on black screen) is taking about 40 minutes.
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Updating EVE:
For update I have to use normal launcher for downloading the necessary data.

Today I was not able to download the data and launcher was freezing.

Deleting the cache for EVE helped me:
1.) open Package Content (right click) of your EVE Online client in Applications
2.) go to Content -> Resources -> cache
3.) delete content of this folder
4.) start launcher
5.) start EVE via cloned app

Ping me in game if you will need more details :-)

I'm having the exact same problem on my Macbook. This started about 2 weeks ago.

I can't quit the game, turn on or off modules, warp, etc. I have to force quit EVE or I have to shut my computer down.

I have already reinstalled the game, it may be worse now than ever. I can't even go 5 minutes of gameplay without this happening.

An update:

After the reinstall did not work, I tried to move my EVE Online folder, within the Library > Application Support folder, to the trash and run the game. That creates a new EVE folder. Now, I log in and the game completely crashes immediately. Can't command + alt + escape anymore, I now have to completely turn my computer off every time I start EVE. So, it made the issue worse. This "fix" is what was recommended to me via support ticket.

I tried to move the folder from trash back into the Application Support folder to overwrite the new folder created when I tried this fix, but that did not work as I received the error message: The operation canGÇÖt be completed because the item GÇ£wineserver-Scotts-MacBook-Air.local-usernameGÇ¥ is in use. This was also recommended by the support ticket.

Now, I will be unable to update my skills. Before, I could not play the game, but I at least could update my skills as long as I did it in under 30 - 60 seconds.

This has been happening on all 3 of my accounts since around February 2nd. 9 x 3 = 27 days. 27 days of USD paid game time wasted.

I had hope, I downloaded the patch today .. I do login .. and black screen .. I can not play from February 4! At this point I'm thinking after 7 years to stop playing.

Sorry, something went wrong in prepping the patch, it will be delayed until tomorrow. I'm hoping to get the build out on a test server today so we can at least see if the code change helps - check back later for details.

did you tried that "blind-click" if you really want to play or you are one of those who only complaining?

Deleting the cache for EVE helped me:
1.) open Package Content (right click) of your EVE Online client in Applications
2.) go to Content -> Resources -> cache
3.) delete content of this folder
4.) start launcher
5.) start EVE via cloned app

Today's Patch seems to work. I was able to undock, warp through gates and back with no game freeze issues. The game graphic settings I left as is, since some report altering them did not improve the situation. Whatever CCP did with today's Patch worked, though I am still curious to know what last week's (Feb. 4, 2014) Patch did to screw with the MAC version of EVE.

Downloaded the patch just now and there is no change whatsoever.

I run the eve launcher, login and enter the program. It begins to load the hanger and freezes. I cannot force quit, I must turn off my entire computer.

My original problem, as I stated, was that after a short period of gameplay everything would "lock up." By lock up, I mean that i could not warp, dock, turn on modules, lock items, chat, etc. I could still spin the camera, move the mouse over items and have the cursor change, and sometimes even open up boxes (character screens, mail) but the boxes would never load, they would simply open up with no content within them. I was sometimes able to force quit the application when I had this problem, other times I would have to turn off my computer.

After I followed the eve support ticket's instruction, also stated above, the client now simply freezes upon opening the game with no ability to force quit.

Just wanted to clarify my specific issue that I believe others here also have. I have never received a black screen. When my client freezes, the graphics stay up, they just do not progress.

I run version 10.7.5 of Mac OS X from a MacBook Air. Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB.

No change. Since technically I'm below spec I'm buying a new computer - if that doesn't help I guess I'll have to quit EVE (and warn other Mac users against joining).

So I broke down and setup my other Mac, which is a mac mini, to run Eve.


The Mac Mini has an Intel HD 3000 graphics card installed as opposed to the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 on my Mac Pro. On the Mac Mini I get to the character selection screen, am able to select a character and the UI almost loads completely. While the game is loading, the word "LOADING" phases in and out on the screen but after a minute or so, the word stops phasing and the computer locks up just like on my mac pro. On the Mac Pro I get to the character selection screen and it locks up there before I can select a character.

So the games progresses further on the Mini than on the Pro but in the end they both need hard resets.

It is not only the 330m, 320m, and 9400m receiving problems but a wide variety of graphics cards and setupsGǪ

I snagged the system log files during the crash, they seem pretty similar to the other log files that have been posted:

2/12/14 11:48:35.000 AM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0x6 = Fifo: Parse Error
2/12/14 11:48:35.000 AM kernel[0]: IOVendorGLContext::ReportGPURestart
2/12/14 11:48:36.000 AM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
2/12/14 11:48:36.000 AM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
2/12/14 11:48:37.000 AM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
2/12/14 11:48:37.000 AM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
2/12/14 11:48:37.000 AM kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error

After this failure I was forced to hardboot, cmd+option+shift+esc couldn't recover, as well as cmd+option+esc.

I'll search the web to see if there's any kind of update or patch for OpenGL on our graphics card. It's hitting a parse error which shouldn't be too hard to fix some data is not being handled correctly so yeah maybe there's an update we're all missing for some reason.

OK found a way in.

Have reported it to CCP maybe will help fix it properly.

So bypass the launcher by right clicking your normal eve start up ion, choose show package contents-->contents-->-->resources should be a familiar looking eve icon. Double click and you have the 'old' launch screen where you put your log in details at the bottom.

Then you will get the lovely black screen of death but now you can 'blind click' on where your character would be the familiar sounds go off in the background.

Wait....

Still a black screen BUT now alt-tab back to your desktop (which before I could not do using normal launcher)

THEN

alt-tab back to Eve and you should get your station environment, if its like mine it is horribly messed up - you can see your ship but the station is a horrible gold artefact...BUT undock, everything looks OK,,,,re-dock and everything is back to the way it used to be,

Not perfect but at least you can get in and update training plans, market orders, etc, etc.

The game is still there & messing around gets you in which proves the problems must be fixable - something to do with method calls at start up that are throwing the Nvdia cards into a loop.

Finally happy after being without Eve for a week & a half. !!

The strange thing is not that it is only happening on old cards.. the real strange thing is that I can log in and play all chars on 2 of my accounts, but on my 3rd account, I cant get past the char selection screen.... I use the same settings and everything, all chars in pods, no difference... except maybe the visualization of the chars itself....

The strange thing is not that it is only happening on old cards.. the real strange thing is that I can log in and play all chars on 2 of my accounts, but on my 3rd account, I cant get past the char selection screen.... I use the same settings and everything, all chars in pods, no difference... except maybe the visualization of the chars itself....

Worst case, CCP may just say to us that Anything of 330M or below is no longer supported anymore since it's the 330m, 320m and 9400m receiving problems. Shame really I hope it doesn't go that far since I paid for a sub only just recently and I'd really hate to stop playing EVE after playing for almost 2 years with no problems.

Lets just really hope CCP finds a fix to this first. Or tell them to reverse everything to before the 1.1 Rubicon patch.

Mac

Fixed client freezing on the character select screen.

seems ok after the new patch.

seems ok after the new patch.

I finally managed to force quit my client for once! Got this on the console during the freeze and while force quitting. Forced my client into the flicker freeze at 14:17:34.

13/02/2014 14:17:34.000 kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0x6 = Fifo: Parse Error
13/02/2014 14:17:34.000 kernel[0]: IOVendorGLContext::ReportGPURestart
13/02/2014 14:17:35.000 kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
13/02/2014 14:17:35.000 kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
13/02/2014 14:17:35.000 kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
13/02/2014 14:17:35.000 kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
13/02/2014 14:17:35.000 kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
13/02/2014 14:17:35.000 kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
13/02/2014 14:17:35.000 kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
13/02/2014 14:17:35.000 kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
13/02/2014 14:17:35.000 kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error
13/02/2014 14:17:36.000 kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error

https://discussions.apple.com/message/15806933#15806933

Look at that, exact same issue.

I'll second that. This iteration of Rubicon is a FAIL for anyone playing on Mac. I'm sick to death of the frustration already.