Just a few points:

• Mention of specific fixes for specific platforms in the patch notes always have been rare exceptions, not the norm.
• Not all of Chris' comments here have been flagged as mod posts by the forum, so you don't necessarily see all of them in the thread view.
• As Chris mentioned here, bringing FaceFX to the Mac client means getting on a newer OpenGL version. My guess is that they're busy building and QAing a new branch of the client. Once you start doing that, the older branch gets abandoned, as new features are added only to the new one.

Hardware

Macbook Pro Retina, 15-Inch, Early 2013
OSX Yosemite
Processor 2.4 ghz Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Nvidia Geforce GT 650M

Game Settings

I run fullscreen or windowed (Full screen 1440x900)
Texture Quality: Medium
Subsampling: High
Shadow Quality: Medium
Water Reflection : Off or low
Max Particles: 1024
Particle Suppression Distance: 50
View Distance: 25
Ambient: Off
Bloom: Off
Depth: Off
Distortion: Off
Sunlight Rays: On
Grass: On

I've never had a glitch or crash. The graphics look "good" at these settings and I can even do AvA with some slowdown. It's not as good as when I'm playing on my i5 4.5 with SLI GTX 780's, but hey, it's stable and I think performs very well.

I have also been getting crashes.

Cyrodiil. Regularly, a short time after joining a campaign and seems to have been around since launch (but I gave up trying for months until trying again last week so I am not being scientific). Crash usually occurs usually during the heat of a battle so I am not sure if time is a factor. In any case its pretty annoying to keep running into this so long after launch. I would love to try Cyrodiil properly.

PVE. Occasionally. After continual crashes when the game launched they went away. The crashed reappeared last week. Seldom... Say every few hours.

I have sent system crash logs when the screen comes up (but the screen doesn't always appear and logging an internal bug report doesn't always work).

The tip on resizing is interesting as I sometimes have to <Command> 'F' to use a password manager for login if I timeout on initial login.

I don't run mods.

My system specs are:

OSX 10.10.1 (now 10.10.2)
Imac Late 2012 (27 Inch)
3.4Ghz I7
32GB
GeForce GTX 680MX 2048MB

I run everything on high except, Shadows, water which are on low and I have most of the candy toggles off except grass and distortion). Interestingly no matter my preference the game insists that I need lense flare.....:/ (sunlight rays)

Deciding on a setting is problematic as you might be on 50-70 fps for PVE only to have it drop dramatically when you change zones (it doesn't always seem to be in places with lots of people).

Computer fan is in overdrive which seems to have only come about after recent patches.

I have tried running at Native resolution as well as lower resolutions.

Would really like to hear something concrete about client optimization being on the way as most of the talk has been about consoles and the revamp. Although the changes look great, my main beef with the game has always been performance.

Hello Chris;

ESO crashes around 2.17GB (at best).

Running on Medium delays crashing 30 to 60 minutes, but makes my toon look like a toon.

I have the identical h/w to Balance, whose crashes under 10.10.x don’t seem to occur as often as mine. The main difference in settings is Balance has Shadow Quality: Medium (vs High). (C) below also suggests lower SQ helps.

Details:
(A) 10.10.2 with Graphics Quality=High: no improvement. Crashed after first transit when App memory was 1.4GB, and 1.74GB. Both times App memory “jumped” to 1.95GB when the CrashReporter came up.

(B) VisceralMonkey’s “never had a crash” changes: Texture Quality: High->Medium, Water Reflection: Medium->Off, View Distance: 37->25, Distortion: ON->OFF.
Still crashed on transit, but after five vs one or two. Crash came after seeing App memory reach 1.95GB.

(C) Graphics Quality=Medium: The changes here are Shadow Quality: High->Medium, Sunlight Rays: ON->OFF.
App memory starts ~1.45GB and goes up a little with each transit. When App memory gets to 2.17GB it stays there until transit or a pitched battle or ? and then it crashes.
Test 1: 15 transits in 45 minutes before it crashed (App memory = 2.17GB before crash).
Test 2: 90 minutes of outdoor raiding before crashing after transiting (App memory = 2.17GB before crash).

[Note: Whenever I switched to Activity Monitor, the ESO window got a little smaller and when I switched back I typed Cmd-F.]

Hello Chris;

Unless you want me to remain on Yosemite to test a patch on either Live or PTS, I'll revert to Mavericks tomorrow to resume High settings.

Still on 10.10.2, I disabled Spotlight, reset PRAM, repaired disk permissions and turned off a few other non-essentials which may or may not have freed up some RAM the application could use.

Tonight I set Graphics to Low for the first time (yuk but nice to have 60 fps in PvP) and did minor raids and keep defense for 6 hours. I estimate population on Thornbalde at 50% capacity (as usual the bars do not seem to be accurate, tonight overestimating EP considerably). I experienced very little server lag. In the midst of this I switched briefly to two PvE chars to make some food for a friend.

At this point, Memory was at 2.04GB (I had not done Cmd-F at all to this point). After a couple of transits and action it was 2.17 and after Cmd-F 2.19. From there I ran mostly in the slightly shorter window to avoid need for Cmd-F and did 35 transits with little action. Mem trended up about 0.5GB per transit and often 0.2 after the occasional Cmd-F or significant PvP action.
At 2.46GB I did inner keep defense (Kingscrest) and purchased from the vendor. Now 2.50GB and while I was looking at it went down to 2.49GB. I meant to transit but think I invoked the vendor again. As soon as I pressed E it crashed Thread 0. I submitted the Apple report (10am EST).
Uptime of ESO was > 8hrs. But I am not going to play with Low or even Medium settings again unless needed for a test.

Hello Chris;

> Mem trended up about 0.5GB per transit...
I meant 0.05GB.

I rolled back to Mavericks - was easy for me as I use that Mac only for ESO. I'm using Medium in Cyrodiil and in two days have had one crash, after entering the breach of a keep we were attacking.

Jitterbug wrote: »

I play on a 13" macbook air from around 2012 with yosemite 10.10.2 and I don't experience anywhere near that amount of problems.
It's not smooth, it's on low settings, it's basically barely playable (which is fair my rig considered), but I don't crash on wayshrines, I don't crash "often" when in PvE, I don't get unresponsiveness more than on my mid-high range PC, I don't think the UI bugs out all that much.
I do get the unloaded textures quite often though.

I think crash frequency strongly depends on individual "usage" or "movement" profile. I can get play sessions lasting around 100 minutes on customized ultra-high settings (Shadow Quality and Water Reflections on medium). But this is me questing quietly in some hinterlands, barely using wayshrines, and rarely zoning. If, at the end of a session, I return to a city and start seeing only very low-res textures on stairs or house walls, I know that a crash might me imminent.