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Still Crashing After Today's Hotfix (09 March 2016)
Same problems as described by OP (crashes within minutes of gameplay) plus graphics issues (including glowing pink animals and disappearing NPCs).
Repaired the client, reinstalled the client from scratch, disabled all addons, removed all addons, still not working properly.
My system exceeds the required specs (16GB RAM, 2GB NVIDIA graphics card, OS 10.10.5).
Why release a version that doesn't work without fundamental changes to the operating system on which it is designed to run and without disabling of core game features?
I'm still experiencing graphics errors since the latest patch, including glowing pink animals and landscape features and gray overlays in the startup screens (e.g. Zenimax animation on starting the game).
A new issue is that addons (Advanced UI, Awesome Guild Store, Master Merchant) seem to be switching themselves off since the latest patch and deleting and reinstalling them (in their latest version) does not seem to fix the issue.
However, I have not experienced any crashes since the latest patch.
When I switch between characters three times, I consistently get an alert "Pending data load error (721137 - c00000000003a25)".
Do you see this as well when all addons are disabled?
Yes, even with all add-ons disabled. Since the latest patch yesterday. It seems to be very consistent after porting around different locations in Wrothgar, and then porting out of the zone.
Still having problems with pink glowing animals and (after porting around locations) pink glowing landscape features as well as crashes when switching characters, even when add-ons are disabled.
deleted the shadercached.cooked file, the AddOnSettings.txt file, the MachineSettings.txt file, the UserSettings.txt file, the ZO_Ingame.lua file
switched off VSync
turned graphics settings to low
run the command "sudo launchctl limit maxfiles 4000 unlimited" in Terminal
Nothing seems to help!
The intro animations are still messed up (though they can be skipped by changing the UserSettings.txt file), glowing pink pets, mounts, animals, and landscape features still appear, characters fall endlessly through the ground, and the game still crashes after switching characters.