I'm still getting the beach ball on this beta... it's relentless. Overall, everything is much zippier on my rMB, but for some reason it keeps hanging up on something. I can't wait until the official version is out so I can do a clean install...
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Apple Seeds Fifth OS X El Capitan Beta to Public Beta Testers [Update: Pulled]
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Weird that public is before dev now
It's not. It's behind. Just on a different release schedule.
Not to mention gamers, who have to move their mouse around a lot as a matter of course. It's pretty annoying to play most games with this "feature" enabled.
It's more than that. I routinely have performance issues when opening apps, opening the password dialog box, and a bunch of other things. There's a 10 second lag or so before any of these finish loading and I can interact with the interface. I have no idea what's causing it, but it isn't new to El Capitan (no, it isn't due to my 2015 rMBP's storage).
What kind of game features rapid mouse movement yet has a cursor? For the former, first-person shooters come to mind, but they don't have a cursor. For the latter, real-time strategy games, but I don't see myself doing rapid circular movements in those.
Or, they could simply release a security update to 10.10.5.
Are you on battery by chance? I got this issue a lot myself and it was resolved by disabling the Ambiet Lighting option. Someone posted it in another thread who reported a similar issue. System Preferences -> Displays -> uncheck Ambient Light compensation.
This helped me. It was unusable with that on, especially on battery only. Not clear why but it seems to re-enable/check itself back on automatically too.
Even though the cursor is hidden, it's still there. Often the rapid movement of a FPS causes this feature to trigger, revealing its hidden position, which obviously gets old after awhile.
As far as I am aware, the Public Beta 5 release was pulled and has not been reissued.
My iMac won't wake from sleep (if it has slept more than 12 hours). Has to be forcibly powered off and rebooted.
Mine used to not wake up after 1 hour of sleep. Now, I've turned off sleep completely (running Caffeine) as it won't wake up at all (once it goes to sleep) and requires a hard reboot. :-(
Yet this pulled public beta has new things the developer one doesn't have at this point as demonstrated in the original article. But somehow the public beta is still behind the developer one?
PB is not behind from DP.
DP got beta 1 & 2 before a PB was released. (Developers earlier access)
PB 1 = DP 3
PB 2 = DP 4
PB 3 = DP 5
PB 4 = DP 6
Once released PB 5 = DP 7
Builds are the same minus the minor difference of one digit off in the build number (PB 4 is 15A243d and DP6 is 15A244d) this is just to differentiate between the two but they are identical.
I'm stuck on Beta 3. Beta 4 doesn't show up in my software update.
EDIT: Ok, am running Beta 4 according to the build number but software update only shows I've downloaded beta 2 and beta 3.
I'm going back to bed.
EDIT: Ok, am running Beta 4 according to the build number but software update only shows I've downloaded beta 2 and beta 3.
I'm going back to bed.
Ok maybe its just me, but I don't really have a problem finding my mouse. Not sure exactly who this "feature" is aimed at.
As you get older, you'll appreciate it more.
I find that the default cursor is too small for my aging eyes, and even though I've set it for a slightly larger size I sometimes can't see where I left it on the screen. So that feature is a big help for me.
I am older, but I can still see the mouse without having it wiggle in my face like fish bait...lolAs you get older, you'll appreciate it more.
I find that the default cursor is too small for my aging eyes, and even though I've set it for a slightly larger size I sometimes can't see where I left it on the screen. So that feature is a big help for me.