New launcher goes mandatory and we have...?


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Still potentially client-trashing known issues?

Have the known issues with the new launcher been fixed? And is there any way to mitigate those known issues?

And are we ever going to have our other known issues dealt with, like the memory leak?


 

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I have no problem with my New launcher, I been useing for Month now and see no issue, infect it's better then the old.


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I've been using the new launcher for quite some time now and have no problems with it.

The memory leak in the game client however appears to be OS Agnostic and is something that also afflicts Windows game clients too ... meaning there's a problem in the fundamental game code.


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The launcher is fairly young and immature on both platforms, it's bound to have hidden issues from time to time until it gets as mature as the old patcher.

And the memory leak problems with the Mac client (not counting the game ones) is with the way Cider uses memory handles. It's up to Transgaming and the Wine team to fix those.


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It's up to Transgaming and the Wine team to fix those.
Which looks about as likely as hell freezing over, unfortunately. Transgaming is thoroughly stuck in the rectum of GameTree (a pretty low-brow company for mac games) as well as companies with a larger foundation, and is devoting most of it's resources to "bigger" companies.


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It all comes down to contract, really, which is something only the Paragon lawyers get to see. I've actually been worried that the contract has expired, meaning there will be no more updates from Transgaming and Paragon is going to have to stretch the life of Cider as long as it can until either (a) its programming staff has the time and skill to rebuild CoH natively on Mac, (b) they get approval to pay a ton of cash out to Transgaming for an update, or (c) a better solution comes along that's the best of both worlds.

I would personally favor (a) but I do agree it would probably keep the coders on the team busy for far longer than might be viable to keep new game features coming regularly. Then again, considering the NC Launcher for Mac in the short time they had to do it...you never know...


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Anyone have an active link for the launcher for a mac.... i get an unavailable page when i click on the link provided on the boards.


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Anyone have an active link for the launcher for a mac.... i get an unavailable page when i click on the link provided on the boards.
Same question. Anyone?


 

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Now i am nagging for you, Fix the links its really not easy to google your way to a small thread on the forums especially if your impatient. Update the links please, its been months apparently and they still misdirect to a 404 page.