running on an arm mac

[elder eagle]

i'm trying to run the game on my m1 macbook air

from what i can tell the game is supposed to have an arm build, but if i launch it from steam it insists on launching the intel version instead, and i can't really tell why

if i just run the game's .app file instead of launching from steam, it does runs the arm version, but then closes after a few seconds and restarts as the intel version instead ..

any advice?

[nova marten]

Not a mac user, and no idea why steam doesn't launch the native version. But for running without steam you can add --disable-store-sdk as commandline option. Then it shouldn't close and restart through steam anymore.

[elder eagle]

that seems to have worked, thank you! still would be nice to get it working through steam but this'll do for now

also apparently i'm not the only person who's dealing with this

[brazen shadow]

@elder eagle how did manage to run it in the end? I've tried adding --disable-store-sdk as launch option in steam as well as cli argument to open open -a shapez 2 --disable-store-sdk
the steam one still launches

[elder eagle]

i just do ./shapez\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/shapez\ 2 --disable-store-sdk in the game's folder

[brazen shadow]

oh great thanks! I missed getting into the .app 🤦‍♂️

[proven kraken]

Hmmm this works for me and launches the Arm build but then it doesn't see that I've got supporters edition :/

Aha, this is apparently a bigger issue with Steam, this OpenTTD issue on their GitHub has a solution and I've just tried it for Shapez2 and it works! https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD/issues/10592#issuecomment-1518940429

[near mulch]

Hey guys - I'm trying to run this on my m2 air and I launch the game on steam and i get past the intro screens, then into a black screen indefinitely, anyone see this before and have insight?

[brazen shadow]

This worked for me as well, opens the arm version via steam 👌

[elder eagle]

oo that works !! thank uuu

[proven kraken]

No worries, and a bonus is that I'm getting even better performance. I'm running with these settings to see how it goes and the metal HUD is showing consistently above 45fps, often up to 70/80. On a lower resolution I was hitting around 55-90

When it was running under intel even on medium preset I sometimes hit 60 but frequently dropped as low as 30

Should mention this is on an M1 Pro MBP

[proven kraken]

Hmmm sadly not, the M2 chip should be able to handle it. Is it just sitting there? Does OSX claim game mode has come on?

[proven kraken]

Pinging @weary junco on this just to surface this as a few people are hitting the Intel launch issue on ARM macs.