Infinite loading screen on Macbook Pro M1

[Tiddan]

Anyone been able to pass the loading screen on a M1 mac? I can play the Guildmaster mode for 3-4 levels and then it just keeps loading forever. Also when trying to quite and load game its also stuck.

Anyone have any tricks? It works on my PC, but its a perfect game to chill on a laptop..

[Calico-Jack]

Originally posted by Tiddan:

Anyone been able to pass the loading screen on a M1 mac? I can play the Guildmaster mode for 3-4 levels and then it just keeps loading forever. Also when trying to quite and load game its also stuck.

Anyone have any tricks? It works on my PC, but its a perfect game to chill on a laptop..

Had similar launch issues just after I installed the game a couple of days ago - though you might want to check your Gatekeeper settings (check under System Prefs -> Security & Privacy -> General) the default setting only allows apps downloaded from the Apple Store to run.


In my case I just used Steam to check/verify the game files and the issue went away.

[caveman]

I'm having the same issue. Guildmaster won't load a continued game or saved game. I tried verifying the integrity of the game files but that didn't help. I tried to start a new Guildmaster game, also stuck on "Loading" screen.

[H0id]

Originally posted by caveman:

I'm having the same issue. Guildmaster won't load a continued game or saved game. I tried verifying the integrity of the game files but that didn't help. I tried to start a new Guildmaster game, also stuck on "Loading" screen.

Same here... Has a fix for this been found yet?

[Tiddan]

Originally posted by H0id:

Originally posted by caveman:

I'm having the same issue. Guildmaster won't load a continued game or saved game. I tried verifying the integrity of the game files but that didn't help. I tried to start a new Guildmaster game, also stuck on "Loading" screen.

Same here... Has a fix for this been found yet?

No, no fix or workaround that works for me. Would be great with a dev response here…

[Calico-Jack]

Originally posted by Tiddan:

Anyone been able to pass the loading screen on a M1 mac? I can play the Guildmaster mode for 3-4 levels and then it just keeps loading forever. Also when trying to quite and load game its also stuck.

Anyone have any tricks? It works on my PC, but its a perfect game to chill on a laptop..

Out of interest - can you launch and run the game from its install folder?

~/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Gloomhaven/GH_OSX

The app uses Unity which might be an avenue to look down

Originally posted by Tiddan:

Would be great with a dev response here…

I get the feeling they spend their time on Discord

quoting from a recentish thread in the Bugs discussion area:

Originally posted by Artan:

I do not have the issue you but might have more luck asking on the Discord.

https://discord.gg/auz3rm43

Maybe this from the pinned messages there will help?

Originally posted by neverstxp — 09/12/2023 15:51:

If you are unable to get the game to fully launch:
"try disabling cloud saving and then going to C:\Users\youruser\AppData\LocalLow\FlamingFowlStudios\Gloomhaven\GloomSaves
Delete your GlobalData.dat file, then start the game
while cloud saving turned off"

[caveman]

Originally posted by Calico-Jack:

Originally posted by Tiddan:

Anyone been able to pass the loading screen on a M1 mac? I can play the Guildmaster mode for 3-4 levels and then it just keeps loading forever. Also when trying to quite and load game its also stuck.

Anyone have any tricks? It works on my PC, but its a perfect game to chill on a laptop..

Out of interest - can you launch and run the game from its install folder?

~/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Gloomhaven/GH_OSX

The app uses Unity which might be an avenue to look down

Super helpful. I ran the game from Terminal command line and was able to launch new Guildmaster games, exit and load again. Older games would not load though :/

Ran the game from:

~/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Gloomhaven/GH_OSX.app/Contents/MacOS/Gloomhaven

[Calico-Jack]

Originally posted by caveman:

Originally posted by Calico-Jack:

Out of interest - can you launch and run the game from its install folder?

~/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Gloomhaven/GH_OSX

The app uses Unity which might be an avenue to look down

Super helpful. I ran the game from Terminal command line and was able to launch new Guildmaster games, exit and load again. Older games would not load though :/

Ran the game from:

~/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Gloomhaven/GH_OSX.app/Contents/MacOS/Gloomhaven

Glad you got something working - so at least that eliminates Unity<=>M1 conflict issues
That sounds like the save file issue then?

https://steamcommunity.com/app/780290/discussions/0/3108017414041986850/

[Crashn Cor]

I had a similar issue. I spent many hours investigating. I had noticed that my home folder name did not match the login/user name I was running it with. I switch to my other admin account and renamed it to match. After that it worked. How to rename the home folder can be found by doing a search on the internet. Switching to my admin account or another account will work (if the home folder name matches their name) but it is not necessary to run it or make it admin or execute the app "elevated" with sudo.

[filim..]

I Still have a problem. With M4 Mini I moved fun to external drive. Gloomhaven won't load there.. it gets stuck every time Loading even New GuildMaster or Campaign games.
Please help.