DDO Mac Beta Client for Live Servers

[Codebaker]

If you are displaying HTML pages, a UIWebView would be a much better choice. But this does depend on the context in which you are trying to use it of course. Do give it a look if you have the time.

Its WebView on Cocoa. UI Classes belong to the iOS Framework. https://developer.apple.com/library/...Reference.html
Still you are right. A WebView will probably yield better results.

Katie, do you have by chance a tip how to get the keyboard working in the client?

What bewilders me. The client uses a different key combination to past text than the OS itself. Leave me with a bad feeling that the OS is not involved here.

[Kaytis]

Its WebView on Cocoa. UI Classes belong to the iOS Framework.

Oops. Thanks. I have been developing for iOS for a while now and forgot. The problem with WebView in general is that it may not be easy to insert it into the view encapsulating the game. The Awesomium thing seems to be targeted at displaying in a straight up ARGB frame buffer without specific knowledge of the hierarchy encapsulating the buffer. I doubt WebView is as forgiving. I always use it in standard view hierarchies so I don't know how it would work in any other context.

do you have by chance a tip how to get the keyboard working in the client?

Not really. It's only been broken twice for me now. Both times, a full restart of the client fixed it.

[cyr1ana]

Oops. Thanks. I have been developing for iOS for a while now and forgot. The problem with WebView in general is that it may not be easy to insert it into the view encapsulating the game. The Awesomium thing seems to be targeted at displaying in a straight up ARGB frame buffer without specific knowledge of the hierarchy encapsulating the buffer. I doubt WebView is as forgiving. I always use it in standard view hierarchies so I don't know how it would work in any other context.



Not really. It's only been broken twice for me now. Both times, a full restart of the client fixed it.

I had that keyboardbug the first time I started the client, too. I was not able to type in the chatwindow. After I restarted the client once, the problem was gone forever.

[djsjbjcj]

Over the past week when I try to download the MAC BETA client, I get

File not found."

When I click on the link. Some days it starts downloading and always stops around 4Gb. Now it seems to consistently give this error. Tried from several MAC's and PC's???

Any suggestions?

[Cordovan]

Hi all,

I just bought a new iMac, and I can't get the Mac Client to download. I've tried downloading from the link at the front of this thread, and from the link on the DDO Home Page.

Whenever I hit the download links, it starts, download about 2 megs, then waits as if it's done, leaving the unfinished download on the desktop.

I don't want to use the Happy Cloud stuff, so I'm just trying to download the client.

I've downloaded many large games and programs over the last few days, including Lotro, so it's not a problem with my internet connection.

I put in a support ticket to Turbine but since that may take days, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts.

Thanks!

Over the past week when I try to download the MAC BETA client, I get

File not found."

When I click on the link. Some days it starts downloading and always stops around 4Gb. Now it seems to consistently give this error. Tried from several MAC's and PC's???

Any suggestions?

Looking into it.

[Relenthe]

Figured I didn't need to take up an entire post for the crash log, but have one if you want to look at it.

[Kaytis]

About the signing issue: the message the Mac OS is putting up, "the application is damaged", is because something has modified the executable binaries after 'codesign' has been run. If you are inserting your own crc's into the binaries after signing, this is what is causing this problem. codesign inserts its own crcs into the data fork, and doing anything else to the file after that sets off sirens for Gatekeeper -it is no longer an unknown developer, it is now a possibly maliciously altered file that is being dealt with. I had to remove crc insertion in a product I developed for this reason.

[seebs]

Okay, testing this on another machine, I do notice a few things:

1. Resolution is ignored fullscreen; it's always native resolution. Or at least, it was native resolution even when it said it was set to 1024x768.
2. No visible effect from either of the options under Troubleshooting. This matters because the laptop tends to run a bit hot, and we don't really need >60fps on a machine with a fixed LCD refresh rate, and really 30 would be fine.

This is on a late-2011 MBP (6770 with 1GB memory, 8GB RAM). Game runs beautifully, but it would be nearly as beautiful at half that frame rate, and run cooler.

[voxson5]

Initial testing: MBP 13" retina (2.5 i5; 8gb RAM; HD4000)

had a few hiccups getting the initial patching updates done.. why do we need to re-download every splash screen? but logged in ok

Crashed 1/2 way through intro movie. 2nd load up skipped it, loaded in

BOYEAH, it works! ~60fps in default settings.

Commetfall, Destruction, Bladebarrier, RS Aura & Burst, Mass Aid spell GFX all working as intended (but see list below)

Fear effect from Mummy Lord GFX effect as intended

1. changing screen res does nothing (as others have posted)
2. had trouble getting RS2 aura going with nothing selected. If I selected myself then popped aura, it worked & then can have no target or different soft target & it works.
3. no damage/healing numbers except in combat log
4. chat no go
5. looks fantastic great job!

I am so buying an SSD for my desktop based on my MBP load times

[voxson5]

The "chat no go" extends to any type of text input -> character creation and deletion

[seebs]

I have a vague thought that webview should be embeddable, and if not, hey, just run it in an undisplayed frame and copy the frame's contents...

Anyway, it's not perfect, but this is a heck of a lot nicer than the Wine wrapper stuff I've seen.

Should I submit a crash log from a crash? If so, how/where?

[voxson5]

2nd load up at home & chat etc working.

Ran through GoP & saw a couple of GFX glitches on the 3 imprisoned spectres prior to the end fight (looks like energon cubes from G1 transformers, maybe an effect is not correctly rendering?)

Its still very nice. But still want to change the screen res

[Raist1280]

1. had trouble getting RS2 aura going with nothing selected. If I selected myself then popped aura, it worked & then can have no target or different soft target & it works.

This is happening on the Windows client too, and has been for awhile now.

[Aescleal]

I really really really want to try this mac client. But each time I download it (on my 5th attempt now) it either stops with an error, or it only downloads 2.15GB, thinks it is finished... then of course when launching the 2.15GB .dmg file, it won't open the image because it's not recognized.

So now I'm downloading for the 5th time. Is something up with the hosting server? Or am I really just that unlucky? I have a great internet connection, and this is the only file I appear to have problems downloading. Can somebody torrent the full dmg? That would be better.

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[Aescleal]

I really really really want to try this mac client. But each time I download it (on my 5th attempt now) it either stops with an error, or it only downloads 2.15GB, thinks it is finished... then of course when launching the 2.15GB .dmg file, it won't open the image because it's not recognized.

So now I'm downloading for the 5th time. Is something up with the hosting server? Or am I really just that unlucky? I have a great internet connection, and this is the only file I appear to have problems downloading. Can somebody torrent the full dmg? That would be better.

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Alright. This is the 5th failure. Another stop at 2.15 GB. I'm not trying again until somebody can confirm this is working. This is the only download that fails. Seems I'm doing a lot of downloading and getting nothing for it.
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[Kaytis]

Alright. This is the 5th failure. Another stop at 2.15 GB. I'm not trying again until somebody can confirm this is working. This is the only download that fails. Seems I'm doing a lot of downloading and getting nothing for it.
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You might be downloading it to an old style Windows formatted external drive. There is an upper limit of 2 gb on file size. Try a Mac OS Extended drive with at least 10 GB free.

[Aescleal]

You might be downloading it to an old style Windows formatted external drive. There is an upper limit of 2 gb on file size. Try a Mac OS Extended drive with at least 10 GB free.

Hi,

Thanks. I wish I knew the reason. You make good points, but I am actually downloading to a 2011 Mac mini, Extended drive, and 300 GB free.

I have also tried downloading it to my Win7 computer (NTFS). Both stop the download at 2.15 GB. Yet, I can download a 16 GB torrent from elsewhere without a problem. I'm a bit perplexed. Hopefully I will be enlightened soon and the answer will come to me. But right now, I can only dream about this Mac client.

Thanks,
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[stniuk]

It worked for me yesterday first time. Unless something has changed since then I would suspect your connection first and then your Mac. If you can download onto another computer on another line you could put it on a flash disk.

[TeacherSyn]

Tried out the client yesterday on my MacBook Pro 2009.

As noted in the system requirements, a Core i5/17 is needed. The game came up and was working but, unlike the refined DirectX rendering while in Boot Camp, the graphics and frame rate were choppy with this Mac and its Core2Duo chip. Can the client be optimized for better GPU usage? Brightness/gamma wasn't working (noted by others). Sound and key support with my Logitech USB headphones and G13 keypad were OK (the keypad software was not as versatile as in Windows).

Chat worked for me briefly. I think it died just after trying out some of the attacks I programmed into my keypad.

I'll end up sticking with Windows mode until the client is refined a bit or I acquire a stronger Mac. Overall, a GREAT effort that should please many Mac owners once it's ready. Grats to the devs and engineers--keep it up.

[scoobmx]

Tried it on early 2011 15-inch MBP. Everything maxed, but no anti-aliasing. It seems to do a lot of hitching (stuttering) which was kind of weird - I see the same thing on my PC, as if somehow it cannot pre-load enough game assets into memory.

I also somehow got the game to see an offline friend as online. She logged off, but she still showed up in my friends list. I could still send tells to her and the game never told me there was an error because she's offline.