Crash game on macOS and low perfomance M3 Max

[by_mak]

At some point during the city's expansion, the game began to crash randomly. I thought these were random crashes and they were rare, so I continued to play. At the plot point of the sharp increase in the city, these crashes began to happen much more often, so I decided to try playing through CrossOver and yes, it stopped crashing, but the comfort of the game became worse and worse.

Lowering the settings didn't help, so I decided to play CrossOver until my eyes started to hurt. In the end, I thought that I had passed the very moment in the game that causes the game to crash and decided to try to launch the save on the native version of the game. Imagine my surprise when the save simply refused to start.

I don’t know what the problem could be, but I’m very saddened by the performance of the game on the native version for macOS with M3 Max and crashes, due to which the passage will have to be postponed until later.

The load on my laptop in the native version on which I started playing this save felt very insignificant. I did not hear any sound from the cooling system, although usually it is still present in AAA games, although not like on gaming laptops on Windows.

It seems that in the native version, the game simply does not use all the resources, so at one moment, when your city crosses the development line, it lacks resources and begins to crash.

This is my opinion.

I sent logs of crashes, settings and saves of my games so that the developers could check everything, I hope the patch is not far off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfXZVEBEAk4

macOS Beta 15.1 (24B5024e) GPTK2b1 and b3 MBP16 M3 Max 40GPU 48MEMORY D3DMetal + MSync Low Settings + MetalFSR Low Settings + AMDFSR

[Padre Gabrielli]

doesnt launch at all on my 2020 iMac 27

[JD]

There are many discussions about this already, it's the game audio that is causing the crashes. Once you get over a certain number of districts built, the game will crash because of the huge amount of SFX it's trying to play. 11Bit tech support said they are working on a fix asap.

[by_mak]

Originally posted by JD:

There are many discussions about this already, it's the game audio that is causing the crashes. Once you get over a certain number of districts built, the game will crash because of the huge amount of SFX it's trying to play. 11Bit tech support said they are working on a fix asap.

OMG

[by_mak]

Originally posted by JD:

There are many discussions about this already, it's the game audio that is causing the crashes. Once you get over a certain number of districts built, the game will crash because of the huge amount of SFX it's trying to play. 11Bit tech support said they are working on a fix asap.

I'm more wondering how the game can be released in this form. Are they really all running 14900KS and RTX 4090 and not having any problems? What about the test group? There are a lot of questions.

They released the game on macOS, I have a $4,000 laptop with a huge chip with RT cores and I suffer in this game, and their system requirements include entry-level chips.

The gaming industry is going crazy.

[Direktor Interneta]

I also had 2 or 3 random crashes in chapter 2, but at around 13k pop I'm literally stuck because my game 100% crashes a minute after loading the last save.

Regarding the audio comment -- maybe, because I lose my audio most of the times before the game freezes.

[Dercy]

Originally posted by Direktor Interneta:

I also had 2 or 3 random crashes in chapter 2, but at around 13k pop I'm literally stuck because my game 100% crashes a minute after loading the last save.

Regarding the audio comment -- maybe, because I lose my audio most of the times before the game freezes.

I have the same issue now that I am on chapter 5. Impossible to play as soon as chapter 5 starts, crashing every single time I load my saved game. I have M3 pro with 18GB ram

[Yoshinoki]

I'm on an M3 Max like you and having the same issue. In story mode, lowering settings got me to the start of chapter 5 but I can't go any further. Utopia builder now has the same issue once reaching a large city and 1-2 colonies going on the map.

I have provided my save files and crash logs. Hopefully like pointed out it's already a known issue with the sound FX that they will fix soon. Fingers crossed
Loving it otherwise