News Mac Beta Now live for Alpha and Beta Backers of Elite: Dangerous

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Edward Lewis

Edward Lewis
Hi everyone,

We're excited to announce that the Mac Beta is now live for those who had access to the Alpha or Beta PC phases of Elite: Dangerous.
To download the launcher head to https://store.elitedangerous.com/ > My Account > My Downloadable Products. Those not eligible to participate in the beta will still be able to download the launcher, but they won't have access to the game.

For direct access to the Mac Launcher download: http://hosting.zaonce.net/elite/Client-Installer.dmg

Here's the bug-reporting forum: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=112

There are a few things that the developers would specifically like your help with. If you could please take a look at:

• A variety of Star port types
- We'd specifically like to find out about performance in and around these areas.
• Supercruise and exploration
- We'd like to know about people’s experiences when testing a variety of suns, and planet types.
• As many different ships as possible
- It would be good to know if you see any changes in performance for different ship cockpits, which will help us with further optimisations.

People joining the Beta test will do so with new saves (this won’t affect their non-Beta game) and reduced-price ships.

We’re aware of some stalls on Nvidia Macs the first time you encounter some areas of the game (e.g. the Galaxy Map).

When providing feedback, please provide your specs from the menu on your Mac - 'About This Mac', on the Overview tab:

Mac type
Processor
Memory
Graphics

Here's a recommended spec for you:

27-inch iMac (Purchased in 2015 - Current Line)
3.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i5
8GB memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M with 2GB video memory / AMD Radeon R9 M290X with 2GB video memory
Mac OS 10.10.x (10.10.03 rec)

As with the PC beta there are a number of optimisations planned, so the final minimum spec is expected to be lower than this. We'll have that information for you as soon as it becomes available.

Thanks everyone, let us know all about your experiences in Elite: Dangerous for Mac! Exciting times.

Ed (on behalf of the Elite: Dangerous team)
 
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[VR] Frank_G

[VR] Frank_G
Right on schedule! Thank you very much, i really appreciate all the hard work you do over there at Frontier Developments. Great job! I am looking forward to install it right away!
 

rdslw

R
Can somebody check and report back if it works (low settings) on 13" retina macbook pro from 2013/2014?

Highly appreciated :)
 

Komemiute

Komemiute
If I may ask, my brother has a MAC, can he play with my account while I'm at work? (we live in different towns...)

IIRC the saves are, as of now, still separate, right?
 

Art0fLife

Art0fLife
And when is it expected to work for those who simply bought the game but own a Mac? Excited to see it coming to OS X! Can't wait to no longer need my Windows machine.
 

doctrewho

doctrewho
What's up with the Launcher requiring a 3rd party framework (mono)? I hope that requirement will be removed when the Mac client launches.
 
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Voz

Voz
Michael,

Will you be looking to extend the Mac Beta testing to look at the interaction with those of us on Windows? I could imagine that you'll want to check that the two ecosystems will play nicely together.....
 

Voyager_NL

Voyager_NL
Hi Edward, Michael,

Is this also already a call to arms for the PC betatesters to join in the Beta to see the performance between both platforms?
Not sure if this is already now or if that is a later step.

Cheers on the spot on delivery. Even though I am not a MAC user.

EDIT: Ah... Voz ninja's me with basically the same question. Great minds... ;)
 
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