Computer freezes when opening menus

Ever since I19 or so, my computer decides to freeze up when opening menus. Namely, the badge menu, contact menu, player info, and clicking on contacts and bringing up the dialogue window freezes it as well. It doesn't happen all of the time, but it seems to only freeze while I'm in windowed mode, and only after I've been on the game for about 10 minutes.

If I avoid opening these menus I can play just fine, but, seeing as I like to dualbox some of my toons, this is really annoying.

Anyone have a solution?

The guides in my signature have some tips for making the game client a little more stable, including turning off Geometry Buffers. Otherwise, what model of Mac are you using?

After i19, i was prompted on the log in screen to update the driver for my video card. It directed me to the nvidia website and I did as advised. Since I did this, I've had the exact same issue you are describing, and I'm on a PC. I'll try to run in full screen and see if that helps.

I've had the same issue for a while, it started with the second to last version of the Mac version. Not i19, but the version that was downloadable before i19 came online.

What I have found is that stores are safe, glowies are safe, and nearly all other interactive windows cause the crash. Background programs keep running, but can't be accessed, only rebooting the machine helps.

Geometry buffers on/off has no effect on this issue.

No other graphic setting I've been able to track down has any effect on this issue.

It is unique to the Mac Client, I've booted and played in my PC environment via bootcamp and it works fine. I get other crashes there that are related to the ATI card on my iMac.

If I join other people's teams, I can play forever without the crash. If I avoid the contacts and tips windows, the missions and badges windows are much less likely to cause the crash, but eventually they will also. If I talk to a specific contact they remain safe to talk to for a very long time, typically long enough to finish their arc, but I can't use the phone to talk to them (Crimson and Indigo's arcs are too long).

I'm going to try again to build a pattern of Macs that are crashing in an effort to fix as many of these problems at once (or at least help the devs and support track it down). While I do that, make sure to send a Support request at help.ncsoft.com so they can keep parallel tracking of all this.