some improvements (no longer a guaranteed crash when picking up a node), but still consistently crashes when taking a screenshot with skill window etc. open

So is this ready for live? Not by a long shot!

Hey all, I've updated my 2.3.5 64-bit client FAQ with a possible fix for the frequent client crashes and pink textures (section 4); it was suggested by Chris, so please give it a try and report how it works out for you.

KhajitFurTrader wrote: »

Hey all, I've updated my 2.3.5 64-bit client FAQ with a possible fix for the frequent client crashes and pink textures (section 4); it was suggested by Chris, so please give it a try and report how it works out for you.

this worked for me, thank you.

Have you tried a repair? If not please try. Looks like you got some corrupted / missing shades from those crashes before
That approach and disabling auto loot (at least at the start of the game) helped this one at least

bitsquare wrote: »

I've got the same system as the OP.

Game crashes when just standing around, doing nothing.

Glowing pink animals everywhere.

I've tried launching the game through Terminal using the steps provided by @KhajitFurTrader but without success.

Same exact problems. Haven't played in the past week because of it.

bitsquare wrote: »

Moreover, I am having issues with my addons failing to load properly, in spite of the fact that I am running the latest (not outdated) addons and have deleted and reinstalled them from scratch. These addons are: Advanced UI, Awesome Guild Store, Harvest Map, Lore Books, Master Merchant, SkyShards.

Please take a look at this post; there might be something going on with the value of LUA memory in the UserSettings.txt being set to 0. Can you confirm this? I've provided instructions on how to change the value and how to make the file read-only for further testing.

I was wondering why I would get a black screen on start-up and the music would play and then after about 20 seconds, the music would stop and the developer logo splashes would begin.
Then Yesterday, while the log-in screen was up, I heard the audio for the developer logo splashes. I thought that was odd.
After I sign in, the game takes forever to load and the ESO oroboros circle icon merely stutters around as if it was having a hard time loading the game. The game has crashed several times in the past three days, not always when looting.

Then today after the game crashed and shut down, there was a log-in screen right behind as if it had been there the whole time. As if there had been a completely separate instance running simultaneously! I'm no programmer but all these appear to be symptoms of the game having problems with multi-threading.

KhajitFurTrader wrote: »

@AKSb16_ESO2, could you please post your system specs here (Apple Menu > About this Mac), would be interesting to know whether there's anything related to hard/software. Please also try to disable all addons if you're using any, there might be a current error in how the client handles their memory usage.
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Hello, my specs are :

iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
3,5 GHz Intel Core i7
24 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB

I never had any problems with addons, but I will try and turn them of for a while.

KhajitFurTrader wrote: »

@AKSb16_ESO2, could you please post your system specs here (Apple Menu > About this Mac), would be interesting to know whether there's anything related to hard/software. Please also try to disable all addons if you're using any, there might be a current error in how the client handles their memory usage.

@Chaos_Serpent, regarding how to disable the splash screens, please refer to this post.

Chaos_Serpent wrote: »

After I sign in, the game takes forever to load and the ESO oroboros circle icon merely stutters around as if it was having a hard time loading the game.

Which OS X version are you on? If you're still on Mavericks (10.9), consider upgrading to 10.10, or better, to 10.11. The shaders have to be compiled on demand now, Yosemite and El Capitan are twice as fast in this than Mavericks.

Chaos_Serpent wrote: »

Then today after the game crashed and shut down, there was a log-in screen right behind as if it had been there the whole time. As if there had been a completely separate instance running simultaneously! I'm no programmer but all these appear to be symptoms of the game having problems with multi-threading.

No, it can't. A crashed process can't display anything, because it has been forcibly terminated by the OS. Has the game client been started twice, perhaps, or have you been thrown back to the log-in screen? Did you have to close down the log-in screen manually? Did you see a crash report of the first process?

Thank you for the prompt and knowledgeable response.

Here's what I know so far and answers to your questions:
- I am using no add-ons, so that isn't an issue
- MAC OS 10.9.5, so I will consider upgrading.
- I think I know what happened in the one case where it looked like two clients were running simultaneously. When I get a crash report, I have the option of clicking the "reopen" button. I clicked the "reopen" button, which closes the larger crash report window and saw the smaller patcher window behind it. I probably thought that patcher window was the new restart and clicked play on it. Thus the "reopen" command from the crash report window probably started the client automatically and I started the client manually and simultaneously via the patcher window. This would explain why I've only seen this once among the many crashes I've experienced.

In a recent related thread a Zenimax employee mentioned that a number of Mac bug fixes will be repaired in an incremental patch this upcoming week. I'll be looking forward to that, and will be looking at an OS upgrade in the meantime.

Thanks for your interest and assistance.