Mac crashes after loading screen

[Halestorm]

I'm playing on a mac. I uninstalled the game fully prior to patch 3, today (after patch 3) I re-downloaded the much larger file size - 122GB.
The initial screen opens and I press play. The Larian and Nvidia logos show and then the initial loading screen. At 100% the game crashes
This has happened 4 times, after the 2nd time I verified the files in steam and it said they were ok. I'm using Mac OS 11.6, M1 chip.

[joepez]

Mine had a similar issue at start. I did the following and no issues so far:

Reboot your mac - sometimes steam/games won’t behave till rebooted.

Check read/write permissions and the game. Occasionally they’re just set wrong. Read only across all user types will generally run into issues. Some games won’t run unless read/write is set for all use types on the game folder and app itself.

Check to make sure it isn’t dying due to a hidden permissions ask. Mine didn’t crash because of this but I did get a dialog about 10 mins into playing asking for input permissions. No idea why it took that long.

After rebooting and changing permissions the game took about 3 mins from launch till the launcher displayed but then played right away with no issues.

[Rogarth]

The requirements say macOS 12.

[petrocv2017]

Originally posted by Halestorm:

I'm playing on a mac. I uninstalled the game fully prior to patch 3, today (after patch 3) I re-downloaded the much larger file size - 122GB.
The initial screen opens and I press play. The Larian and Nvidia logos show and then the initial loading screen. At 100% the game crashes
This has happened 4 times, after the 2nd time I verified the files in steam and it said they were ok. I'm using Mac OS 11.6, M1 chip.

did you manage to launch the game?

[noisesensei]

Also crashes after loading. (Deleted cache files, reinstalled, rebooted, ect - this doesnt help).

[Halestorm]

I was dumb, I didn’t update to iOS 12

[logan]

for anyone else who finds this post, i also thought I was having a similar issue. In my case the game would load, but then would just seemingly randomly quit occasionally, only on mac (never had this happen on PC). I eventually realized it was quitting when I was holding down the Left-Cmd key (to highlight items) while rotating the camera with the Q key ....
"Cmd-Q" of course just quits the game (lol). I change my keybinding for highlight items to Option and hasn't quit since.
Just thought I'd mention that in case anyone else is as slow as I was to notice :)

[drterdal]

Thanks!