[Client Crash] - Game won't launch on Mac.


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Bug Submission:

Category: Client Crash

Issue Title: Game won't launch on Mac.

Issue Description: I try to launch the game on Mac, and it looks like it launches for a fraction of second, like the icon on the dashboard pops up, then immediately disappears and the game doesn't load.

I have tried deleting the mod folder as a bunch of posts suggested, but this has not solved the problem.

Steps to Reproduce: It happens every time I launch the game on Steam.

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Hi Guys,

 

Are you running on a Mac account with admin privileges? The same account that installed the game from Steam? We're finding that in some situations the game doesn't have permission to create the Klei/DoNotStarveTogether subfolder in your documents and this is causing it to fail to load. We haven't been able to find the root cause of this, however.

 

Can you try manually creating ~/Documents/Klei/DoNotStarveTogether and see if you are able to run after that. Please report back with whether this works or not, we'd like to be able to solve this for good.

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Hi - I created the folder above as requested. Still doesn't load. I am running as the administrator account. The launch did create a log.txt file with this information:

 

Starting Up
Version: 129926
Don't Starve Together: 129926 OSX_STEAM
Build Date: 2015-03-12_13-44-42
Parsing commandline
Command Line Arguments: 
Initializing Steam
Error, Steam failed to initialize, result=1...
The application will now exit
Shutting down
 
FYI - The ~/Documents/Klei/DoNotStarve did already exist from the other game. If it was a rights issue, I would think it would have affected the regular don't starve game as well..
 
Steam is running as well - I've tried launching from the steam client and also from the icon on the desktop.
 
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I tried creating the DoNotStarveTogether folder manually, but the issue persists. I am trying to launch it from an admin account as well. The log.txt file it created gave me this:

 

Starting Up
Version: 129926
Don't Starve Together: 129926 OSX_STEAM
Build Date: 2015-03-12_13-44-42
Parsing commandline
Command Line Arguments: -psn_0_1270070
Initializing Steam
Error, Steam failed to initialize, result=1...
The application will now exit
Shutting down
 

Here are my Macbook Pro's specs:

Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5

Memory 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 512 MB

Software OS X 10.8.5 (12f45)

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As Requested iMac info:

 

Hardware Overview:

 

  Model Name: iMac

  Model Identifier: iMac14,2

  Processor Name: Intel Core i7

  Processor Speed: 3.5 GHz

  Number of Processors: 1

  Total Number of Cores: 4

  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

  L3 Cache: 8 MB

  Memory: 32 GB

  Boot ROM Version: IM142.0118.B09

  SMC Version (system): 2.15f7

 

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M:

 

  Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

  Type: GPU

  Bus: PCIe

  PCIe Lane Width: x16

  VRAM (Total): 4096 MB

  Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

  Device ID: 0x119e

  Revision ID: 0x00a2

  ROM Revision: 3782

  Displays:

iMac:

  Display Type: LCD

  Resolution: 2560 x 1440

  Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)

  Main Display: Yes

  Mirror: Off

  Online: Yes

  Built-In: Yes

 

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Hi Guys,

 

This crash seems to be different from what I thought initially. There seems to be some sort of problem on the Steam side of things. We've seen it occur once in house but it went away after several reboots. I've added some logging to our Steam initialization to hopefully get an idea of what specifically is going wrong. It will be included in the next update, today or tomorrow. It would be helpful if once you get it  you run the game and report back with the contents of your log file again.

 

In the meantime try the following things to see if any helps at all:

1. Restart Steam

2. Restart your machine

3. Delete and re-install DST

3. Delete and re-install Steam

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I deleted the game (not steam yet) and reinstalled - this is what was in the error log.

 

Starting Up
Version: 130298
Don't Starve Together: 130298 OSX_STEAM
Build Date: 2015-03-16_13-47-20
Parsing commandline
Command Line Arguments: 
Initializing Steam
Steam must be running to play this game (SteamAPI_Init() failed).
Error, Steam failed to initialize, result=1...
The application will now exit
Shutting down
 
 
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Success - I deleted steam completely including the local files. Reinstalled steam, downloaded the game and it started. Hope this works for all...

 

Thanks for all the follow up on this issue and working with me to troubleshoot.

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I'm glad to hear that worked for you. I've come across what might be a less severe solution. It's described in the Steam support pages here: 
http://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3134-TIAL-4638

 

I'm sorry to make you click through to the post but for some reason the forum won't let me copy the steps here. Just note that you can't do the Steam reset in a Chrome browser window, it has to be in IE, Safari, or Firefox.

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