Mac: Stuck in Initializing Game Forever

[rafidev]

As it says in the title: when I start the game, the Paradox launcher comes up, and I press play, and the game launches, but it sits there with a fully black screen and just the "initializing game" wording in the corner and the hourglass mouse. It doesn't show any other loading screen or images like used to come up in the loading process. I've tried waiting it out and it will just sit there for ages. I've played before, but it has been several months.

I'm on Mac (Ventura 13.4.1). It's the most recent version of the game, I believe. It says 1.12.5 (Scythe) on the Launcher.

I searched online for advice beforehand, and I've tried verifying the integrity of the game files, uninstalling and reinstalling the game via the Steam client, deleting the Paradox Launcher files on the computer and letting playing the game restore those when played, deleting the entire CK3 files and then pressing play and having Steam reinstall and reverify it that way. These are all things that were suggested in other threads, so I'm getting really frustrated and running out of ideas. I've bought several DLCs along with the main game, so I'm pretty bothered by being unable to play. I can't tell why this should be happening, since other games have been playing just fine.

It seems like it's an issue other people have encountered, and who have resolved it by just deleting and reinstalling? I can't play at all so it kind of affects every feature.

[rafidev]

Issue continuing still. :/ I have no idea what to do.

[rafidev]

Oh, also to mention that I've tried playing with zero mods several times after all these steps, so it's not a mod issue.

[jpcerutti]

Originally posted by rafidev:

Oh, also to mention that I've tried playing with zero mods several times after all these steps, so it's not a mod issue.

For individual tech issues a good place to get support is from the game maker directly. Questions here can go long times, sometimes forever, without somebody volunteering to help - and with limited skill with actually being able to help. For example, I'm willing to read the forum post here and reply, a rarity in itself, but I have never owned a Mac so I cannot help you at all.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/crusader-kings-iii-tech-support.1078/

Paradox Forums - Crusader Kings III - Tech Support

[Red Manatee]

I was running into this after the last update. I had to go into settings in the launcher and change the renderer to Vulkan. I am using an ARM based MAC so hopefully that will help you?