Mac version crashes on start

[NAVYSEALS]

Get the failed to start Error on Mac. Posting here and hoping for a quick resolution. Excited to play. On M1 MAC + Software 11,6

Balatro
Failed to start process for this game : OS Error 0.

[the_full_swanson]

Was working fine for me on my Mac but when I downloaded it on my steam deck and tried to get the cloud save I started to have problems. Steam deck wouldn't download the save and now the game won't launch on my Mac.

[NAVYSEALS]

Originally posted by turboshitnerd:

I was having the same issue and decided to go down the rabbit hole and look in the official Discord.

It turns out the bug is actually with the engine the game uses, not the game itself, and there's a new compile of the engine that already fixes the issue: https://github.com/love2d/love/issues/2029

A simple hotfix using the updated version of the engine would solve the problem – now it's just a matter of waiting for the dev to patch it

great, sounds like it will be a quick fix then :)

[NAVYSEALS]

Originally posted by the_full_swanson:

Was working fine for me on my Mac but when I downloaded it on my steam deck and tried to get the cloud save I started to have problems. Steam deck wouldn't download the save and now the game won't launch on my Mac.

should also add that it seems multiple people have been having those cloud issues with mac

[-=RiP=- Ellipsis XVII]

same here

[Half_The_Lime]

Same issue.

Error is saying:

Process: love [758]
Path: /Users/USER/Library/Application Support/Steam/*/Balatro.app/Contents/MacOS/love
Identifier: com.Balatro.localthunk
Version: 11.5 (0)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: love [758]
User ID: {Deleted in case relevant to privacy}

Date/Time: 2024-03-04 14:33:48.178 +0000
OS Version: macOS 11.7.10 (20G1427)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: {Deleted in case relevant to privacy}


Time Awake Since Boot: 120 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 20 @engine/save_manager.lua

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: exc handler [758]

If more of the error would be useful (the thread information is following) lmk and I'll post it.

Very looking forward to playing this game :)

[seqiro]

16" M1 Max MacBook Pro and the game launches, but cloud saves aren't working for me either. Hopefully this gets fixed. Don't want to lose all the progress I made on my Ally, but I've actually been playing via Steam Link on my MBP because the text is too small for my old eyes on the Ally.

[kavika]

latest public_experimental beta seems to be working for me.

Library -> Right click Balatro -> Properties -> Betas -> Change Beta Participation from "None" to "public_experimental" -> wait for it to finish installing the update or click the Update button in the library

[Wildlife Bakery]

Hi all,
Had the same issue and as @kavica says above it was fixed in the beta :)

[default]

Hiya all, having the same issue, m1 mac, tried the beta and nothing doing :(

[turboshitnerd]

Originally posted by default:

Hiya all, having the same issue, m1 mac, tried the beta and nothing doing :(

It's already been fixed in the latest stable version. Whatever problem you're having is unrelated

[13Maur]

I played 2 hours earlier today and when i came back after 6 or so hours it wouldnt launch...

[Severisth]

It's happening again.