[2021] The Native Mac Client is now the default client for Singularity 🎉

Singularity is now running the Native Mac Client. Please make sure you are running the latest launcher before connecting, as there were a number of important fixes for the Native Mac Client in the last release.
You will need macOS 10.14 or above. Intel and M1 both have native clients, without the need for Rosetta2. The launcher currently requires Rosetta2.

As with previous deployments, there have been a lot of bug fixes and changes in the client. Please let us know of any problems filing a bug report in-game (F12) and including as many details as possible. If you make a post here offering feedback, please try to include your EBR number.

As always, general feedback for the client is welcome

Hi @Kwambus!
Did you try to login on Singularity or Tranquility? On Tranquility (which is still using he old client through Wine) this is unfortunately expected on M1 with the standard installation, but on Singularity this should work.

Hi
We’ve tried really hard to repo this internally, but can’t. We have almost the same Mac here (I think it’s the 5500M, not 5300M) which has not had this issue.
Is there anything you can think of that might be different or special with your machine? External docks? Any graphical software you use? Is the battery okay in the device?

We’ll keep it in mind and I’ll let you know if we come across it. Without an internal reproduction though, we’re mostly guessing what could be causing it

Yup! The Wine based client is limited by DirectX9 features, which means it didn’t include some of the awesome post-processing and shader features that you now see. It really is a big difference

If you get the chance, check out Jita (4-4 hanger naturally) or Abyssal space for some fantastic graphical differences.

Thanks - I’ll double check the internal ticket tomorrow, but we did compare the Windows and Mac clients, and they looked more or less the same to us after the last changes. Will do a double check though

The i9 is a warm chip, so I’d expect the fans to spin up a bit I’m glad to hear that the temperature is better than the Wine version. The Native Mac Client is much more optimised when it comes to resource use!
Ensuring v-sync is on is by far one of the best ways to keep heat / fan management under control. I strongly recommend leaving it on.

We did a pass of shortcuts since the last update, so I’m glad to see it got noticed so quickly . The client should also match OS shortcuts for moving between words by using the alt/opt key. We have a few more minor changes to make, but most people won’t notice them

Currently yes, as it is still being tested.

@Ernesto_Guevarti Can you please send a bug report with all available details and log files? Feel free to tag my name in the title of the bug report. Hackintosh are not supported, but I am a bit surprised, that it does not work at all.

Can you try to attach also the full launcher log file of the launcher session? Alternatively you can also keep LogLite running, restart the launcher and capture a client start attempt, so I can see what the launcher is doing directly before starting the client. And then attach these files as well.
I think you can also try to start the app for Sisi directly to see if this would work (but I am not sure if this would work normally).

Hi

Thanks for the feedback. There are a number of outstanding keyboard mapping issues as you’ve seen. I will cross-check the ones you’ve mentioned against what we have logged internally. We will continue to work on these and resolve as many as we can before it leaves the test server.

We’re assessing the community feedback, crash reports, and performance daily. There isn’t a specific date we have for the release, but the Wine client will be unsupported sooner rather than later.

Unfortunately Singularity was incorrectly configured today for a few hours, after a new build was deployed, and the Wine client was accidently used. This has been fixed now.