Mac users who played with -gl options now can't start the game

[MC HAMMER]

Please fix game for Mac users, as I see in discussions a lot of Mac users who uses -gl option now affected

[MC HAMMER]

And if you removed -gl options game still doesn't start.

[Kagami]

Moving Dota Technology Forward

As we mentioned when we launched Battle Pass: Part II, this update has removed support for OpenGL. For macOS customers, the minimum requirement is now macOS 10.13.6 with a Metal-capable GPU (AMD GCN-based GPU or newer; NVIDIA Kepler-based GPU or newer; or Intel HD 4000 or newer). For Linux customers, AMD GCN+, NVIDIA Kepler+, or Intel HD 5000-series or newer is required.

In a future update this year, we intend to upgrade our SIMD support from SSE2 to SSE4.1 to allow higher performance in physics, particles, and general gameplay code. Almost all processors released in the past 10 years support SSE4.1, so this should affect a very small portion of Dota players. If you have a computer that does not support SSE4.1, you will need to upgrade to a newer CPU once that update releases.

We are in the process of updating our models to a newer format known as ModelDoc. After this change is complete, we will be removing several animation-related APIs from our custom game API in favor of ModelDoc's animation support. These deprecated APIs are listed on the Source 2 Developer Community Wiki.

Source = Dota2.com

[Zagryzaec]

Moving technology forward = things that worked fine no longer works.

[Kagami]

Originally posted by Zagryzaec:

Moving technology forward = things that worked fine no longer works.

I have m1 chip mac and can’t play dota2 on it. It sucks.

[Psychobob]

Got a Mac and game doesn't even launch. During battle pass game would crash after banning phase but now crashes immediately. -gl not working -vulkan not working...

[MC HAMMER]

I think I my computer doesn't meet GPU requirement (Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB), but it is so stupid if you can't play a game on device issued in 2019. That's sad I have been playing this game for 10 years, but looks like it's time to release 50Gb on my hard drive:)

[76561198963038190]

The words *update* and *upgrade* give me PTSD at this point

[ALLAH EDIN]

now i cant play with my intel hd 3000?(

[Kagami]

If you have an older version of GPU or CPU and it doesn’t works then its normal but i have M1 chip mac from last year and i can’t play dota2 in it. Its brand new so its nonsense why i can’t play on a new device (even its a mac).

[M7]

same here, has anyone found solution?

[76561198856191854]

my dota is not working

[dz0ny]

Lol, so basically m1 or m2 which was released a year ago is also no longer supported, you sure are deprecating even faster than Apple :D.

TLDR;
Looks like there is no abstraction layer present anymore that would enable the game to be played on m1 or m2 chips, why don't you then just remove support for macOS and be done with it?

-gl no longer works, support removed
-vulkan no longer works, support for macOS was also removed in an update 3m ago

The only supported is Metal (native macOS) but only for deprecated Intel-based mac models, I am lost as to where they see the logic here.