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Aurical Cryso
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Posted - 2008.02.19 22:41:00 -
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When I run EVE, it runs fine, but lots of icons and sprites flash on the screen, on and off, appearing and disappearing at quick intervals.
Running Mac OSX
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Genus Amor
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Posted - 2008.02.20 17:53:00 -
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ya, i have that problem too, and i have a macbook. i sent a petition while back, our video card doesnt support the game. you can try tweaking with graphics but i didnt find that it helped. also my screen usually freezes on me after an hour and i gotta reboot, it sucks.
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Ma Ku
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Posted - 2008.02.25 09:28:00 -
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Same problem here with a MBP. le sigh, guess it's back to bootcamp for me.
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Karr Vanguard
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.02.25 18:36:00 -
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I'm running OSX Tiger on a Macbook with a GMA 950 graphics chipset. The client will run okay, without those infamous 'glitches' that make it totally unplayable so long as you set
[d3dgl] "FBO" = "N"
in the config file. The downside, and I'm presuming this could be fixed if I could actually get the dev team to pay attention, is that all the portraits (ships, pilots and some other items, although not generally modules) are actually 'pictures of the bottom left of the screen', just bits of the GUI interface rather than the real portrait. Which, crucially perhaps, briefly flashes in the part of the screen before whats underneath gets used as the portrait.
FBO presumably stands for framebuffering, so I'm not surprised there are issues. But if you can live with not having portaits working right the client is perfectly playable apart from that. Although the FPS does only average 20 fps or so.
It might be partially cargo cult bug fixing on my part but I think it also helps to make sure the 'color depth' is set to '24-bit color with 8-bit alpha' and the 'depth/stencil format' is set to '24-bit z-buffer' in the application settings, as well as doing the tweak to the config file.
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Roran Palancar
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Posted - 2008.02.29 20:43:00 -
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Originally by: Genus Amor ya, i have that problem too, and i have a macbook. i sent a petition while back, our video card doesnt support the game. you can try tweaking with graphics but i didnt find that it helped. also my screen usually freezes on me after an hour and i gotta reboot, it sucks.
When it starts flashing bad, try changing the video option: Interval rate to something else... and then apply the change. It'll cause the client to restart the graphics engine (like changing the resolution of your screen.) and the flickering should go away for some time.
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Hideyo Gou
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Posted - 2008.03.10 02:03:00 -
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followed Karr Vanguard's instructions: worked great! thanks! Imac 17 1.83 Intel
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Tippia
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Posted - 2008.03.13 12:40:00 -
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Originally by: Karr Vanguard make it totally unplayable so long as you set
[d3dgl] "FBO" = "N"
in the config file. The downside, and I'm presuming this could be fixed if I could actually get the dev team to pay attention [...]
Woha. Yes, this particular tidbit should certainly get some dev attention. This rather small fix immediately allowed me to play EVE on my Macbook Air(!) - a machine that by all accounts should just up and die if exposed to this game. Instead, all of a sudden, anywhere/anytime skill changes and trading is within my reach.
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Random koala
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.03.15 14:38:00 -
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Originally by: Karr Vanguard I'm running OSX Tiger on a Macbook with a GMA 950 graphics chipset. The client will run okay, without those infamous 'glitches' that make it totally unplayable so long as you set
[d3dgl] "FBO" = "N"
in the config file. The downside, and I'm presuming this could be fixed if I could actually get the dev team to pay attention, is that all the portraits (ships, pilots and some other items, although not generally modules) are actually 'pictures of the bottom left of the screen', just bits of the GUI interface rather than the real portrait. Which, crucially perhaps, briefly flashes in the part of the screen before whats underneath gets used as the portrait.
FBO presumably stands for framebuffering, so I'm not surprised there are issues. But if you can live with not having portaits working right the client is perfectly playable apart from that. Although the FPS does only average 20 fps or so.
It might be partially cargo cult bug fixing on my part but I think it also helps to make sure the 'color depth' is set to '24-bit color with 8-bit alpha' and the 'depth/stencil format' is set to '24-bit z-buffer' in the application settings, as well as doing the tweak to the config file.
I am not the most computer literate...can you tell me how to change that? where I go and how? please and thank you
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Per Kopfhurer
Infinitus Odium
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Posted - 2008.05.09 06:19:00 -
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Thank you for that FBO fix. I can now change skills on my regular Macbook just fine. Actually even flying in space is possible.
Only thing that's weird is those portraits flashing in the left bottom corner but that's TINY compared to being actually able to run EVE.
Thank you Sir!
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Nlewis
GoonFleet GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2008.05.09 22:04:00 -
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I have that problem on a regular macbook, and my temporary fix is, every time it starts to flicker, I change the depth filter to 16 bit. when it starts up again i change it to 32 and then back to 16. It seems stupid and more work than it needs to be but it makes running eve on my macbook tolerable
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Mara Rinn
Minmatar
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Posted - 2008.08.05 23:20:00 -
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Originally by: Random koala
Originally by: Karr Vanguard The client will run okay, without those infamous 'glitches' that make it totally unplayable so long as you set
[d3dgl] "FBO" = "N"
in the config file.
I am not the most computer literate...can you tell me how to change that? where I go and how? please and thank you
In your home folder, navigate to: Library/Preferences/EVE Online Preferences, then open the file named "config" in your favourite text editor.
My installation had the "FBO" option already there, with the value "Y".
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