Anyone struggling to play Cities Skylines on M3 iMac?

[miłośnikwiewiórek]

My copy of Cities Skylines keeps crashing while trying to play on my new M3 iMac.

I bought this iMac to replace my aging MacBook Pro.

I have the following specs
Processor M3
SSD 256GB
Graphics 10 Cores
RAM 8GB

Anyone else have this problem?

[Intellection]

The newer versions of macOS have caused a number of older games to no longer work.
For example:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/464920/discussions/0/3873714328955539902/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1066780/discussions/0/3957035999325847167/

Although your problem could be due to the low amount of RAM that your system has. Cities Skylines is a memory hog and the Apple M1/M2/M3 architecture shares the RAM with both the CPU and the GPU which increases RAM use even more. Having said this, the virtual memory system should still allow the game to run, just slowly, assuming you have enough free space on your SSD.

The game still runs fine on my M1 Pro with 32 GB of RAM under macOS Monterey (12.7.1).

Edit FYI: I just checked and the game uses 21GB of memory on my system with just a few mods and a medium size city.

[onyxthunder]

I just bought the M3 Pro 18GB Ram MacBook Pro last night and the game runs better than on my HP gaming laptop. So far no issues after I messed with a couple mods that gave errors on the first startup.

[✪ NeariX]

Originally posted by onyxthunder:

I just bought the M3 Pro 18GB Ram MacBook Pro last night and the game runs better than on my HP gaming laptop. So far no issues after I messed with a couple mods that gave errors on the first startup.

Have you changed anything? I have the exact same MacBook Pro and when i launch the game for the first time (after re-installing) i can click anywhere and accept the terms and conditions and all that, but the 'New Game' is greyed out. So i restart the game and the "What's new" Dialog pops up and i can't click anything. Tried setting it to windowed and all that, searched other discussions here on steam and on reddit and all solutions won't fix the issue for me.