EVE Online: New patch coming tomorrow for both Mac and Linux game clients

Any new EVE Online players using the Mac and Linux clients survive the two week trial? I hope so because the newly-minted Mac and Linux clients prevented many new capsuleers from even finishing the tutorial; however, it worked great for some others. Reading the EVE forums during this craze, I couldn't help but grimace at the debilitating problems new and old players using the clients were having. I experienced random disconnecting while playing on a MacBook Pro that made for a trying experience when rampaging through the belts in my cheap paper-thin frigate. My shallow hull, where'd it go again?

The good news is both Mac and Linux clients will be patched during scheduled downtime tomorrow, November 27th. This patch will not change the current Windows clients in anyway or patch some secret in-game hacks only Mac and Linux users can profit from, although that would be nice as I'm a bit burnt out on the ISK farm and I think my capacitor has had enough that it jettisoned itself from my ship. These patches are specifically engineered to improve performance and fix a few client specific bugs. If you are using the Linux client, the client should automatically download and install a patch for the TransGaming components. Players using the Mac client will need to download and apply a different client patch -- the hard way. This patch will be uploaded onto the EVE Online website during tomorrow's maintenance. I included the full patch notes after the jump:

The following items have been added to the Revelations 2.3 Patch Notes page.

• Fixed a number of crashes and runtime exceptions for the Mac client.

• HFS+ case sensitive file system support for the Mac client has been added.

• Azerty, Danish and Swedish keyboard issues for the Mac client have been resolved.

• The transparent boxy background around the HUD has been resolved.

• Added detection of initial state of locking keys (Numlock/Capslock) has been added.

• Startup issues on Linux systems using Athlon/AthlonXP processors caused by the use of SSE and SSE2 instructions have been resolved.

• Autopatcher resolution switching fixed on Linux.

• The Linux installer was experiencing issues with tooltips. These have been resolved.

• The multiuser instalation issue with Ubuntu Gutsy has been resolved.

• Certain settings in the EVE Configuration tool not sticking appropriately. This has been resolved.