Please Help! Remote Play Assertion Failure Issue

[DrSteve515]

Hello everyone! I hope you are staying safe and healthy! I am not very technologically savvy, and am hoping someone who is can help me with a problem I'm having.

I have attempted to Remote Play a game with a friend. In the past with other people, I have managed to do this successfully. However, with one particular friend, I will request her to Remote Play, she will accept it, the game will start loading on her screen, and then she will receive a black screen with an error message that reads as follows:

Assertion failure at SDL_UpdateYUVTexture_REAL (/Users/buildbot/buildslave/sdl_osx/build/dev/src/render/SDL_render.c:1621), triggered 1 time: 'texture && texture-> magic = = &texture_magic'

We are both using Macs, our wifi connection has been tested and is up to speed, and both Steam clients are up to date. Her firewall, while active, is set to allow all input from Steam.

I have searched endlessly online and through the Steam forums, with no luck. Thank you for taking the time - I appreciate any help you can offer. Have a nice day and stay safe!

[samuel.bourassa-blanchette]

Having the exact same issues as OP, any feedback would be welcome, thanks.

[ChazzyB]

My friend who is on Mac is having the same issue whenever they try to join my game

[Fried Garlic]

Having the same issue with my friend who is on Mac

[tulip_trader]

I have the same problem as well.

[znjrols5]

+1

[znjrols5]

There seems to be a workaround, at least for some cases (it may not work for the OP's case, but posting in case somebody else gets stumbled upon this post).

BTW, this happens for me for a Win10 host machine, trying to remote play from a Mac OS X 10.15.4.

For me, it worked to start the game from the host machine (Win10 in this case), and then just connect from the guest machine (Mac), as opposed to starting and connecting from the guest machine.

[Chrystanonym]

Had the same issue, here is what helped me (Mac):

- start any remote play game on steam mac and invite anyone
- it will not work either, but a message will pop up to link to a driver to install
- install it
- restart and get invited by the Windows player (in my case it was the host, but the issue was fixed after that)
- now on mac 'always ignore' was clickable, and the message never showed up again and we could play without any problems.

So after all Steam could fix this by giving the possibility to install that even when invited.

Hope it helps ;) Good luck

[Grablin42]

+1

[Blankqo]

I'd given 'Full Disk Access' to Steam app under 'System Preferences' > 'Security & Privacy' on my mac. Then restart Steam and it works like a charm