OS X El Capitan - Mac Client Status

[Reih]

Maybe there will only be a performance increase if they make an update that makes use of the Metal API?

Ya, that's what it will happen. They will need to update the game to use Metal. But so far, from what I've been reading, there are some mixed tests with Metal vs OpenGL. Metal winning some, OpenGL winning other benchmarks. We'll have to wait for Transgaming or SquareEnix to implement this. The gold master version of el capitan has been out for a while now. I just hope we hear something about this soon.

[Crayge]

I'm having some weird issues since upgrading to El Capitan as well. All windowed mode resolutions are way off, half pushed off the screen and the mouse doesn't visually line up with where the cursor is active in the game. It does work okay full screen, but feels more sluggish than before. And then I started having weird keyboard issues... like it was completely remapped and then not working and lagging really bad. The keyboard issue may be unrelated, but only happened after logging into the game, and hasn't recurred again since restarting after logging in.

[Brickshouse]

El capitain has some teething problems, we can't upgrade at work as Archicad (cad software) has issues with it at the moment.

[Reih]

I can imagine Archicad having trouble on El Capitan due to the nature of the app itself. Not everyone can upgrade to El Capitan right away. But my guess is that SquareEnix and Transgaming are betting on the Metal API to get a better client for OSX.

Fun Fact: Transgaming removed the article about releaseing FF14 for Mac from their website.

We'll have to wait for SE to announce something. I just wish we had at least some vague info on the future of the OSX Client.

[Ayla]

It's still there:

http://www.transgaming.com/news/

http://www.transgaming.com/mac-debut...-realm-reborn/

[Reih]

It's still there:

http://www.transgaming.com/news/

http://www.transgaming.com/mac-debut...-realm-reborn/

Opps, my bad. Wonder why I had a 404 Error - Not Found... anyway it's there. Still no news about the mac version.

[Galadrium]

Looks like the window issue displaying offscreen should be fixed but it may require you to re-install the Mac Client.

I got a pop up this morning on my Mac client version to re-install. It looks like some more Mac improvements but some people may be instructed via the pop up first to re-install the Mac client:

Update Details
Reinstalling the client will address the following:
 ・ An issue wherein performance improvements were not being properly applied.
 ・ An issue related to system updates.
 ・ An issue wherein the top portion of the window would appear off-screen when using Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
 ・ An issue wherein the in-game Support Desk feature could not be used.
 ・ Multiple issues related to Japanese input.

[Galadrium]

Updates coming Tuesday in the 3.1 release include fixes for the Mac version.

[2.0] The following adjustments have been made to the Mac version:
The client is now compatible with Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
The default graphic settings in the System Configuration interface have been adjusted.
Adjustments have been made affect the performance of systems using the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M, GT 755M, and GT 750M graphics cards.

[Madsamurai]

Game is still booting up off screen after 3.1 and zero improvements on framerates. In fact i felt that it ran worse.

[KaedrianLiang]

anyone plan on posting their hardware specs?