Mac Issues

Ever since i21 has launched, I as a mac user have had nothing but troubles while trying to access the game, I have not had a single solid gaming experience - or one that has lasted longer then 30 minutes since the release of i21.

It started with launch day the NCsoft launcher not even recognising the new issue and claiming that the 'cider' download or w/e can't be found, 4 hours later I manage to sort it out.
I log onto the game play for 20 minutes then crash for entering paragon market, CoH wont load when clicking 'play now' tried repair/patching nothing works. Have to uninstall and re install CoX ... 2 hours later I log in 20 minutes into play I tab out of cox to put music on and when I tab back in its a blank screen.. just black or orange nothing but colour... So now apparantly I can't tab out of the CoH screen without having to reload. Now everytime I do anything that causes the game to crash i,e entering store or spending time in AP or any zone I have to unsintal the game and re install because it simply wont load. I just don't understand why they would make an issue go live that they KNOW is plagued with problems concerning Mac players.

More than likely because more than 75% of the subscribers are not on Mac's. Holding off on something that 75% of your user base can use... Just so you don't upset the other 15% wouldn't make much financial sense either.

I'm not saying it's a good thing. I'm just saying it's a fact that you, as a Mac user, have to accept. Good of the many will always outweigh the needs of the few, even more so when money is on the line.

If you reversed those (admitedly made up) numbers, if Mac users represented the majority then they would most certainly 'hold back'.

*Shrug*

This is a forum for asking questions. Questions that can be answered by other players of the game. Not a rant board.

I understand being upset, and if I were in your shoes, I probably would be pretty angry. However filling support tickets, and bug reports, let them know what you're experiencing, so that they can make sure they can get everything fixed is more likely to garner results than your current course of action.

It sounds like your NC Launcher is out of date! You need to update that, because the old launcher (used for i20) had issues with the Paragon Market (when loading the Paragon Market, the Qt Framework is first initialized, which results in some extra registry entries being made in the user.reg file in the Preferences folder, which the older NC Launcher borks on upon parsing).

A lot of the issues CoH has on the Mac are the fault of Transgaming, as Paragon depends on them to patch/update/fix Cider whenever they encounter a new issue with it, and Transgaming doesn't appear to be incredibly responsive anymore.

(the current version of the NC Launcher is 1.0.20110913.0)


Paragon actually did hold off the Launch of i21 due to issues with the Mac client (hence them announcing the date at PAX like they originally planned, as well as the NCSoft Store removing all the boosters/expansions so long before the release!), but eventually they had to push it out (and they fixed the launcher bug at the last minute, and the text error on the Paragon Market soon after that).

@MaestroMavius: Your math sucks! 75 + 15 != 100.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Did you try updating the NC Launcher?

Try going into ~/Library/Preferences/City of Hero Preferences in Finder and deleting the file 'user.reg' file. Can you now start CoH? If yes, update your launcher, it's out of date. If no, then try deleting the rest of the files in that folder and try again.


Try some stuff proposed here and post results. Even if they don't work, saying so will give us information that could help fix your problems. Simply whining about it will accomplish nothing (unless you've got some cheese you need to eat... har har! ) But, in all seriousness... try it!


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Linux users are a rounding error at best Best to not even acknowledge that they exist!

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

You tried deleting 'user.reg', then trying to launch the game (don't have the launcher running while you do this!)? You also tried deleting the Preferences folder? And what exactly do you mean by it won't launch? Please be specific... I know being vague is all fun and all, but it's not helpful to anyone (especially yourself).

Before we can know how to fix the problem you're having, we have to know what problem you're encountering, and we can only do that if you're willing to provide more information.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Macs use the same damn processors and etc. as a PC. The difference is that they can run Mac OS X (Pcs too but that requires doing some stuff that the average user may not want).

Pal, it's not that 'macs aren't good for CoH' - you're being ignorant here. It's the client that's a bloody mess.

I can run CoH and Rift (a 2011 game) on 2560x1440 resolution here on my Mac, all gfx settings turned to the max (ATI 6970M here). So yeah mac can run things other than Farmville. But that's on Windows, because, read well, the Mac OS X client is bad. I can run with max settings too but it will be less smooth and the client will lock up sometimes, which doesn't happen on Windows 7 - on the same Mac.

Ok that isn't exclusive to CoH, some other games are ported to Mac OS X via emulation tech and they don't always deliver, like CoH doesn't, but it's just sad the client is so bad. I prefer playing on W7 because of Mid's and etc but lots of people don't install Windows on their macs.

So you're saying the problem isn't with the game it's with something else the OP has installed on his Mac that interacts with the game. Something that was developed by Apple, the makers of Mac's.

When I was much younger, my grandparents almost always had some trays around with various nuts in them. I learned to appreciate the tastes of several different nuts I'd have never tried at the time.

Similarly, I've tried Macs using a few different Mac OS versions. I can appreciate some of the things they do very well, but get frustrated with some things they don't do as well. Since some of the programs I really like are Windows only, I'll stick with Windows. The few programs I've found that weren't natively written for Mac OS but were instead a port of a PC version have had too many problems.

Tangent: When I visited my grandparents and tried the different nuts in the trays, I found that I while I already loved pecans and peanuts, I loved cashews and walnuts. I though Brazil nuts were OK but not among my top choices. The older I've gotten, the less I like Brazil nuts.