How To: Stop Start-up Crash on OS X

[Frank]

So, if you're like me and you're trying to play the game on a Mac, you've probably noticed that the game crashes on start up. This is due to a known issue with Unity and the latest version of OS X. Thankfully, I'm here to save you with a fix to avoid this.

The issue happens with Unity games that convert to full-screen via a preferences file. In order to avoid the crash, you'll need to play in Windowed. To do that, open up your text editor and edit the following file:

~/Library/Preferences/unity.Harebrained\ Schemes.Shadowrun.plist

You'll need to change both the first fullscreen mode value and the second last one to "0" as so:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Screenmanager Is Fullscreen mode</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>Screenmanager Resolution Height</key>
<integer>720</integer>
<key>Screenmanager Resolution Width</key>
<integer>1280</integer>
<key>Settings.IsFullScreen</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>Settings.ResolutionFullScreen</key>
<integer>7</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

You're welcome.

[FuzzyPuffin]

Odd, this didn't happen to me and I'm on 10.8.4.

I have noticed a few glaring Mac bugs, though.

[RaiTei]

Anyone tested this with success?

[Brenex]

Just tested it, worked for me. You can go into options once the game loads and switch it back to fullscreen. It will now launch in fullscreen in the future and get past the caching assets bar without freezing, at least it does so on my MBA 2012

[fishapples]

What did you open it with? I've tried Sublime Text, TextEdit, and vim and I get what looks like a compiled file. How did you get xml?

[DrinkJetFuel]

You can open the file from the gui using xcode and change the appropriate values to '0'.

[SuperJ711]

I can't seem to find this file.

[fishapples]

Just opened it in xcode and got it modified. Working fine now =)

[FuzzyPuffin]

You don't need xcode, you can open it in BBedit or TextWrangler.

[God Art]

Sticky it !!!

[FuzzyPuffin]

Originally posted by SuperJ711:

I can't seem to find this file.

Apple hid the Library because they are morons (they are fixing this in Mavericks, thank god.)

Easiest way:

Option click the Go menu in the finder. Select Library. Then you can follow the path from there. (~/Library/Preferences/unity.Harebrained\ Schemes.Shadowrun.plist )

[shaunpbaldwin]

Excellent. Thanks!

[SuperJ711]

Weird, I did it as root in the console and still couldn't find it. Blah.

Originally posted by FuzzyPuffin:

Originally posted by SuperJ711:

I can't seem to find this file.

Apple hid the Library because they are morons (they are fixing this in Mavericks, thank god.)

Easiest way:

Option click the Go menu in the finder. Select Library. Then you can follow the path from there. (~/Library/Preferences/unity.Harebrained\ Schemes.Shadowrun.plist )

[RaiTei]

I'm currently In preferences and i do not see unity.Harebrained. :( Any help?

[Brenex]

I have it as unity.Harebrained Schemes.Shadowrun.plist

[RaiTei]

I mean, i'm going from Library -> Preferences -> Nothing :(