My little EVE space
Posts tagged Mac Client
To Bootcamp or not to Bootcamp
17 months ago
by KrispyDingo
in EVE Online
I’ve done this in the past, used to have a very large 100GB partition dedicated to Windows 7 that I also used with Parallels so I could run important work programs, but which I deleted because somehow I have used over 400GB on my HDD now (what in the hell is all that shit?), but with the release of Incarna, and the paltry 10FPS I get when using CQ on the Mac client with the lowest settings possible, I decided to make a small 20GB partition, spend about 2 hours downloading EVE for Windows, and install it to see if there was much of a performance difference.
I was surprised by what I saw.
Multiple EVE Clients From One Install, on a Mac
61 year ago
For me, this has been the Holy Grail of how I can make my EVE experience on a Mac be the best it possibly can. I have had multiple installs, taking up around 35gb of total hard drive space since I started my fourth account, and I had wondered for a long time if there were a way to run my clients from a single install like using the junction method on Windows.
As mentioned in that Evelopedia article, they suggest two ways of running multiple clients. One is to have multiple installs, like I mentioned I had, and the other is to force OSX to open your single client multiple times through a terminal command.
Option one uses up a lot of hard drive space. Option two can cause potential problems with read/write errors in your preferences.
To that end, I now present you with option three. This is going to be a little long, and maybe a little involved, but overall it is fairly simple.
I Cannot Believe it Was That Easy
01 year ago
I know, cryptic title or something.
Basically I just cleaned up about 30gb worth of EVE Online installs from the HDD of my MacBook, while still retaining the ability to play multiple accounts, having different preferences for each, and not causing the usual read write errors you get when you do a normal open -n to force an additional client to open.
Also, come patch day, there is only ONE client to update.
Full details will come later tonight, when I am not at work, so I can get screenshots and fully detail everything that I did.
I am a little on the giddy side, because this is something I have been wanting to do since I opened a second account.
EVE in Full Window Mode on a Mac (sort of) OOC
21 year ago
If you play EVE on Windows, you know that running in window mode is as easy as selecting Window Mode from the drop down in your graphics settings (Or pressing Alt+Enter). Through the use of EVEHQ, EVEMon, or EVE Mover, you can easily have your client appear in “Full Window Mode” where the title bar is hidden off the top of the screen and the client appears to be running in full screen, but since it is windowed you can easily switch between multiple clients without your computers graphics being reset.
Unfortunately, this is not the case with the Mac client.
