Crashes on launch after today's update. M1 Mac.

[mlts70]

Crashes immediately upon launch now. Was fine (except for ground textures) before today's update. Mac Studio M1 Max.

[MindTheCube]

The crash on startup has nothing to do with M1. I am getting the identical crash running on an Intel Mac.

MacOS Monterey 12.3.1
Mac mini 2018
3.2 GHz 8-core Intel i7
16 GB RAM
AMD Radeo RX Vega 56 8 GB (eGPU)

[mlts70]

Interesting.

[Ocelot of War]

Does anyone actually have access to the game?

[MindTheCube]

A thread was started in the Paradox forums about this. A moderator reported they are able to run it on their Mac running OS X 12.3.1. So it does not appear to be a universal problem.

They suggested a full uninstall & reinstall, with specific instructions on backing up game saves and manually deleting folders that Steam might leave behind. Read them here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/surviving-mars-game-fails-to-start.1522606/post-28243126

Doing this seems to have fixed the problem for me! After uninstalling, I also emptied the trash and restarted the computer, just to be thorough. Then I reinstalled.

Also, I didn't need to manually put back my saved games because Steam restored them from the cloud.

[mlts70]

THANK YOU THANK YOU. I followed the instructions and they WORKED. I seem to have all my save games and DLC. There is still the ground texture problem that I've seen ever since I upgraded to an M1 Max chip, but that's a fairly minor problem.