mac-os🍎

[stark dirge]

Yes, I made this and then I ran the launcher and I can see the updating message and closes inmeadetly

There no crash I think, I mean at least not with the renderer because I was able to play

Sorry for the delay in answering I was working 🤣

[rugged jungle]

is your wrapper engine and version up to date

[stark dirge]

Yes, I think so. I made the update ‘cause I wasn’t able to play, maybe something with the wrapper? Mmmmm I will look close

I mean, I play last Thursday with no problems

[rugged jungle]

make sure you're on engine "Kegworks 24.0.7 (revision 0)" and wrapper version "3.1.3"

wineskin/kegworks config screen should look like this

[stark dirge]

I’ll look at it first thing tomorrow morning

Thanks to all of you

[rugged jungle]

yessir

[proud igloo]

Ooh, that box looks a bit different these days. Which of the D3D boxes does people use for PoB?

[rugged jungle]

d3dmetal

new option dxmt doesnt run that well even on dx11

also for some reason updating the wrapper doesnt change the kegworks config screen even though dxmt is added

you need to create a new wrapper and copy the kegworks config from there into the old wrapper

[lilac trail]

You do NOT use any of the boxes on the front screen for PoB. There are instructions on the wiki on how to set PoB up. Also do not use msync or esync for PoB

PoB2 is a little different but is also explained on the wiki.

[lilac trail]

You don’t have to create a new wrapper to get the DXMT check box. After you update the master wrapper in /Application you copy the KegworksConfig file to the existing POE2 wrapper (after you have updated its wrapper and engine). That will get the new DXMT setting, but as mentioned in the PSA it isn’t needed for POE2.

[proud igloo]

PoB-PoE1 may go the same route once the team adopts more rendering stuff later. Same engine, after all.

[lilac trail]

Let me know when that happens and I'll update the wiki so everything is consistent

[proud igloo]

Or things may shift drastically for both if the further PoB engine experiments go well. Those currently crash hard on both Linux and macOS last I tried

[stark dirge]

Morning! It was the wngine used @rugged jungle. I updated and now it works fine. Thaaaaanks!

[rugged jungle]

👍

nice

[steady aurora]

Yep, DXMT is DirectX to Metal translation layer

But unlike Apples D3DMetal it’s completely open source.

It currently only supports DirectX 11, it may be expanded later but for now it’s just DirectX 11 following a similar development path as DXVK did originally

[lilac trail]

Kegworks wrapper has been update to 3.1.4 for anyone interested in upgrading. It has been updated to include DXMT 0.41. POE/POE2 does not like DXMT but other games you use Kegworks for may notice some improvements in performance/FPS

[sullen thunder]

Hi, im trying to install Poe with Kegworks 3.1.4 wish me luck ( https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Guide:Path_of_Exile_on_Mac_using_Windows_Client#Kegworks_(KWS)_Setup )

[sullen thunder]

Kinda works, im unable to write an @ in my mail adress, is there a possibiltie to write it to conig file?

[atomic herald]

try to copy from here?

[lilac trail]

What are you trying to do ?

[sullen thunder]

login in to the poe client

[sullen thunder]

works, thanks

option+l didnt gave me the @ for emaillogin

[left meadow]

hey guys.. trying to install poe1 with kegworks, i keep getting this message no matter what i do, any advice?

I think it's because when i pick the executable it's under Z not C, but i'm not sure how to change it

i managed to put it in the C drive, but the same error of can't find excecutables comes up

[left meadow]

ok i just deleted and uninstalled everything, then reinstalled kegworks and it works now, nevermind

[jagged osprey]

Hey hey - I was playing POE 2 until a couple patches ago on kegworks when it just stopped launching. It is a low time so I just moved on - but am trying to get it working again. When I open it it opens the patch screen, that quickly goes away but the game never launches. There's no error. Anyone experience this?

[jagged osprey]

Hey so I was looking at this advice and tried to update my wrapper and there was an error and now the whole wineskin is gone - do you know what would cause this?

[rugged jungle]

yeah for some reason the updated wrapper doesnt include wineskin/kegworks config

you can copy the kegworks config file from the master wrapper or create a new wrapper and copy it from there

#mac-os🍎 message

[jagged osprey]

Still can't get it working. Says checking resources then just closes.

Same as before.

[lilac trail]

Did you rename the PathofExile file as per the wiki guide ?

Also what wrapper and engine versions are you on ? This matters less but it always helps to be on the latest

[jagged osprey]

No? Do you mean like the tmp to exe for when it patches?

[lilac trail]

Yeap.

[jagged osprey]

I just tried to do a fresh install so 3.1.5

I don't have a .tmp file RN.

[lilac trail]

I will make a thread so we can move conversation there (and you can provide screen shots)

[jagged osprey]

Cool. Thanks so much!

[lilac trail]

POE2 starts but closes right after

[umbral shore]

Hello, new install attempt of poe2 using kegworks following the wiki guide: Game tries to launch but never gets past a black screen showing only poe cursor, no apparent error. Anything I should try?

(one thing I noticed is that starting the game doesn't appear to populate the production config ini that I had to put the dx12 setting into manually)

[lilac trail]

Post a screenshot of your configuration showing the wrapper and engine version as well as the other settings such as D3D and msync

[umbral shore]

can do, this good?

[lilac trail]

Those settings are good. If the config_ini isn’t populated the first time the game will not run but will fully populate the file. Starting a second time should get it running. If it is still a black screen check the config file again and make sure the renderer is set properly to DitectX12. Sometimes it will default to something else.

Also - if POE2 servers are having issues or are slow it might cause this. In that case you’ll just have to work for them or try another gateway

[umbral shore]

so no matter how many times I start poe2, it doesn't populate the file at all before it just closes after being stuck on black screen for a while

it just stays like the screenshot I posted above, with the manually added renderer type dx12

is there a way to change gateway or something when the game is just black screen before crashing?

update: not every time does it just crash, sometimes it gives me this error, even though my production config ini looks like above

is there a command line option that isn't in the wiki that forces dx12 or some permission issue that needs to be solved?

[umbral shore]

I gave it full disk access and no luck so far

[lilac trail]

Where is your config_ini file. It looks like it is not reading the correct one.
Also post your config_ini file now that you have run the game again.

Also - r u on an Apple Silicon or an Intel Mac ?

[umbral shore]

apple silicon

if I delete the file, it will put a new empty file there

after I renamed what I got to .old

new file is just empty

machine is m1 pro 16"

sonoma 14.7

[lilac trail]

POE2 not starting

[lilac trail]

Has anyone had any issues with the latest patch release (0.1.1g I think) while on Sonoma ?

[lilac trail]

PSA - Kegworks has released a new wrapper v3.1.5. For users already running Kegworks it isn't required to update. If you do decide to update, make sure you update the master wrapper first. Also update both the wrapper and engine versions to the latest. If you are still running the Wineskin version - you should probably update at some stage but if everything is still working there isn't a burning need to do so. IF you are still running the old version you will need to perform an extra step in the update process, which is to copy the KegworksConfg.app from /users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Kegworks/Wrapper/Wineskin.app/Contents/ to any Kegs you upgrade from the old Wineskin app. This should not be necessary for anyone who has already upgraded to Kegworks or is creating a completely new Keg. If anyone has any questions you should join the Kegworks discord channel and post there.

[glacial vault]

heya @lilac trail been a while

how are you? went on a vacation!

hey quick question, prolly dumb!

but is it poss to change the visual settings to see more of the screen?

or is that already fixed?

i somehow see that the streamers on youtube have a lot more of the screen shown than I ever see

[proud igloo]

The limits of the camera are the same across all legitimate players. Wider monitors/windows can see more to the sides as the vertical distance is locked.
Make sure you're not accidentally zoomed in (with scroll wheel or Page Up/Down).

(if you like me find that you sometimes accidentally zoom in with the mouse wheel, there's an option for Mousewheel Zoom in Interface to disable it)

[lilac trail]

What zao said. Streamers don’t have any advantages. You can run in Windowed or Full screen mode if you aren’t already but apart from that it only “seems like” they have more real estate than you do.
GGG did in fact drop support for ultra wide monitors quite some time ago because you could see more that way (zao will correct me). There was quite the outcry from ultra wide monitor owners but it was totally the right call by GGG. It evened the playing field.

[proud igloo]

The horizontal restriction had a technical component, the distances you could see interfered heavily with the engine logic.

[lilac trail]

Sure it did …. that’s what you want us to think but I know you could see 3 screens over with those things 🤣

[proud igloo]

Cutedog mode for Maven 😄

Thin window to see the whole memory game at once ^_^

[lilac trail]

Most of you have probably seen and are aware of this but in case you have not - listen to the comment at 47:15 (so almost the last thing). The video should start there but in case it does not …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouwX0caU_es&t=2835s&pp=2AGTFpACAQ%3D%3D

[glacial vault]

ah thanks for that! pity, i'd have liked to see the chaps that shoot at me from i dunno where!

its not right that they can see me, when i cant see them

[glacial vault]

right!! but it does just "seem like"...esp when they showcase screenwide explosions and stuff?

[marble gate]

HYPEEEEEEEEEE

[stiff mist]

Does anyone know if there is a estimated date that PoE2 will work on Silicon?

[clever mist]

#mac-os🍎 message

at 47,15.

[stiff mist]

I saw that but it didn’t say around about when 0.3 would be

[clever mist]

well couple of months maybe?

[sterile goblet]

anyone got latest build of poe2 running with whiskey?

I'm getting some wine error

[lilac trail]

See the first pinned message about what WINE based apps will run POE2. There are 2 and Whisky isn’t one of them.

[sterile goblet]

oh rip

whiskey was working fine until recently

thanks

[lilac trail]

Whisky is still useable, just not for POE or POE2. GGG released an update that broke it, along with portingkit and GPTK. You can still use Whisky for other games.
Steam is also broken as well on Whisky because of a Steam update. Technically you can implement a work around but those have their own issues.

Honestly - I would just move to using Kegworks (free) or Crossover(need a license).

Both have discord channels. Only Kegworks and Crossover work for both GGG games and do not have the same issues with Steam as Whisky.

You can move any bottles you have in Whisky to one of them with minimal reconfiguration.

[sterile goblet]

so I followed the pinned kegworks guide, I set the config but the logs look like it's still grabbing vulken?

[lilac trail]

Update your engine. It's a little bit behind. Latest is 24.0.7. Then re-run the game and see if that fixes things

Everything else looks good

You will likely need to update the master Kegworks wrapper first, otherwise the latest engine will not be available for the POE2 Keg

[sterile goblet]

still same logs but I saw my in game cursor for a sec

took a break to read the new patch notes

(I’m on m series just to be clear)

[umbral shore]

might be similar to my issue

[floral dew]

Dmitry, have the same issue as you. Never used a VM before so wasn’t sure how to get it going to get the .ini created

[sterile goblet]

hm I'm not getting a popup with a vulcan error

when you start do you see your cursor for a second?

thats where I am. then crash

[umbral shore]

the pop up only happened sometimes with me. Can look at client.txt to see if it's using vulkan

[sterile goblet]

yeah it looks like it is

supports the following GPU Features:
        GPU Family Metal 3
        GPU Family Apple 8
        GPU Family Apple 7
        GPU Family Apple 6
        GPU Family Apple 5
        GPU Family Apple 4
        GPU Family Apple 3
        GPU Family Apple 2
        GPU Family Apple 1
        GPU Family Mac 2
        GPU Family Mac 1
        GPU Family Common 3
        GPU Family Common 2
        GPU Family Common 1
        macOS GPU Family 2 v1
        macOS GPU Family 1 v4
        macOS GPU Family 1 v3
        macOS GPU Family 1 v2
        macOS GPU Family 1 v1
[mvk-info] Created VkInstance for Vulkan version 1.2.290, as requested by app, with the following 6 Vulkan extensions enabled:
    VK_KHR_external_fence_capabilities v1
    VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2 v2
    VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2 v1
    VK_KHR_surface v25
    VK_EXT_metal_surface v1
    VK_EXT_swapchain_colorspace v5

it's just ignoring the config.ini I guess

[umbral shore]

yep, same issue I had. I wish I knew a solution other than using parallels (with the setting on to unify the mac and windows vm's documents folder.

[sterile goblet]

parallels works so awfully for me

[umbral shore]

you do it just to start it up the first time

takes ages and is super slow but kegworks worked perfectly after the first successful launch in parallels

[sterile goblet]

oh really

[umbral shore]

it listens to config.ini after first startup

[sterile goblet]

ugh I have to figure out how to share files ig

[umbral shore]

it's a setting in parallels to unify the documents folder, though I guess you could just copy over the windows config.ini to the mac location if you don't do that

might work

[sterile goblet]

oh I wonder if I can do it from whiskey to it

it was working there until recently

that worked!

[umbral shore]

sick

[sterile goblet]

heres my config with username omitted if others just want to copy for startup

looks like you might have to change gateway or the tutorial stuff if you're a new player

[floral dew]

This worked for me @sterile goblet Thank you!!

@lilac trail seems a generic .ini file does work

[lilac trail]

Awesome ! I suggested that (well gcenx did) over on Kegworks channel. The GGG installer must be mangling the file somehow. A generic one clearly fixes it. Wish had thought of that the other night with dmitry.

[umbral shore]

better put a generic one in the wiki guide

[proud igloo]

I think back when I first tried Windows PoE2 on macOS, I made a config that just had the video section with the key for API selection.

I had the thing where the config either was empty or missing.

Been a while now so memory is vague.

[lilac trail]

I’ll make a note about it. Can’t really provide a generic file since there is no place to store it on wiki or elsewhere. I guess I can link to Snow’s here though 🤔

[umbral shore]

could make a special wiki page for it and just paste it there

[floral dew]

yup! I saw that, I didnt have POE1 installed still, so I couldnt test it, Ended up just going the Parallels Trial route right as Snow shared the generic file

[lilac trail]

A link to the discord thread will work. I might ask to have it as a pinned message.

[lilac trail]

Yes that would have been an issue. Now we have the template we can refer others to it if needed. Academically I’m curious why this has happened to 3 people now. Something changed (obviously) to something somewhere.

[umbral shore]

I'm just glad my machine in particular doesn't have something borked

[floral dew]

For me, I never had PoE2 installed until yesterday. Mine was a fresh install from the ground up, so I never had the config file before. Seems like when Snow had to switch engines, it was similar to a fresh install, and dmitry seemed to have the issue from afresh install as well

[lilac trail]

Yes. I'm curious to now if everyone is on Sonoma ? I'm on Sequioa, so it may be a Sonoma thing, though I never encountered this when I was on Sonoma.

[sterile goblet]

I could put on github or something too

[sterile goblet]

I only encountered this error recently and I use sequioa

[umbral shore]

definitely not sonoma then, might be a slight adjustment in the ggg installer or something that doesn't like kegworks

[lilac trail]

If you have an existing github and are ok with putting it there and having a link on the wiki to it that would be good. Otherwise I’ll just get it pinned and provide the discord message link on the wiki.

[lilac trail]

Could be. The patch before last broke 2 WINE based apps so now only Crossover and Kegworks can run POE2. Kegworks has had a few wrapper updates but the engine (24.0.7) has been in place for a while 🤔 At least we have a solution 👍

[sterile goblet]

https://github.com/Snow-ctrl-c/poe2-config

[floral dew]

Yeah i am on Sequoia as well

[steady aurora]

I'd recommend setting that up for new players instead of making them edit the file

Target it for new users, existing players should be the ones who edit the config file to skip things

[sterile goblet]

yeah I’m planning on testing the flags I suggested changing later today after work and updating

but good suggestion

[lilac trail]

Remind me when the email address and gateway information is populated in the file ? If it is after login, then a generic file should be fine. If it is before then a generic file would still need to be edited by a new user.
The renderer_type could be set to DirectX12 regardless, though this would break if someone is on an Intel instead of a Silicon system, so it might be better to leave that for all users to edit, as per the existing wiki 🤔

[umbral shore]

also side question from me: is there some sort of trick or something to get game mode working for kegworks poe2? I do think I would prefer the higher bluetooth polling rate for controllers.

.plist edit to game application type doesn't seem to do it

[sterile goblet]

yeah was gonna check the first part as well. users have to already edit the render type, do you think 2 files is more appropriate here?

one for each render type?

[lilac trail]

Yes it should help

No it won’t because a lot of people won’t/don’t read any instructions. They just magically think it should all work. Make two and throw them in separate folders clearly labelled - Silicon and Intel.
Can’t do more than that.

[sterile goblet]

yeah I will update the read me as well to be descriptive.

I have a feeling many more of the options can be pruned too. do we have someone with an intel based mac that could help test (the final version)?

just in case

[umbral shore]

does intel macs even have the same issue on install? it might be possible it doesn't.

[sterile goblet]

also true

[lilac trail]

There was one user but I don't recall their name. They may not even be active anymore. As Dmitry points out, maybe Intel systems do not have the same issue but we won't really know till someone pops in and reports the same issue. It is still a good idea to cover both bases.

[sterile goblet]

yeah I agree, I guess we can just assume it works until someone reports otherwise

I’m off work in roughly 5 hours so I’ll ping after I’ve pruned unnecessary values and created the second file

[lilac trail]

Sounds good.
I will add a small section to the wiki for troubleshooting. The 3 main issue players have when trying to setup POE/POE2 are usually because they've missed a step in the guides, they forgot to edit the config_ini file or this new issue that has popped up. I don't want to make the section too long. There is already a lot of text on that page which some find intimidating when they first see it (though surely not as much as the passive tree 🙂 )

[lilac trail]

Do you have a Steam account that you can use for POE or POE2 on Parallels ? I want to test a Launch parameter on the Steam page for the game. It is supposed to help stabilise FPS in some games, maybe even improve it. I'm wondering if it would improve the awful performance in Parallels at all.

[umbral shore]

I'm afraid I don't have the bandwidth to test that before tomorrow so perhaps more longer term future, but no time soon

[lilac trail]

No rush. It's more a curiosity. I might be able to test it myself but I don't have POE2 on Steam, though I could probably do the same test via POE 🤔

[umbral shore]

do you know anything about kegworks to get game mode running? I haven't been able to find any useful info myself

[lilac trail]

I don't use it myself but others might I do remember one person, either here or on Kegworks saying to try opening Chess (yes the in-built one) to activate Game mode and then minimising it. Not sure that would work. I assume Game mode is per game, but if all it takes is to have Game mode activated then that might be worth a try. You should also hop on to the Kegworks discord and ask there.

[umbral shore]

game mode I believe says it's paused when you focus another window other than chess

will look into that

[lilac trail]

You can trigger game mode from the command line. Take a look at this Reddit post. It’s over 6 months old but would still be valid. No-one knows how Apple determines what a game is to apply game mode. For all we know it could just be a wrapper for the Unix ‘nice’ command. If that were true you would just give the POE2 process a value of -20 with the ‘nice’ command.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/s/U9KWGhVUlN

If the Chess trick works though let us know

[glacial vault]

ok, so POE2 drop is happening tomorrow

they have included a torrent file for pc

how does that work for us?

what do we need to do?

@lilac trail @proud igloo experts, your guidance is requested

they have also allowed for a pre-download starting now...before the actual launch...

[proud igloo]

PC Standalone can use the GGPK from the preload torrent.

[glacial vault]

this is so complicated for my poor brain

[proud igloo]

macOS Standalone can't, nor can any Steam, Epic, etc.

[glacial vault]

ah well! not the standalone, considering there is none for P2...

i am talking abt kegworks and how to update...

this is not like the usual patch update is it?

[proud igloo]

Normal patching process is:

1. wait for normal patch around three hours before launch.
2. patch.

Torrent preload patching process is:

1. pre-download GGPK from torrent (might be zipped).
2. wait until normal patching around three hours before launch.
3. when patch is live, swap out your GGPK from your kegged installation of PoE2 with the pre-downloaded one.
4. patch as normal.

[glacial vault]

will it auto download like it always does when there is a patch? and all we have to do is change tmp to exe and business as usual?

[proud igloo]

The big trap there is that you should not replace the file before the patch is live; if you try to patch with it too early, it'll "unpatch" the pack and destroy anything new in it 😄

[glacial vault]

ah!!

but that is easy, cos the patch is happening at 4 am my time! imma fast asleep then!

[proud igloo]

Major patches like 0.2.0 work just the same as the ones throughout the leagues.

Just a bit larger, and with the option to predownload if you really want to.

[glacial vault]

so when i wake up tomm and then update, i will still be in the after patch window

[glacial vault]

yes, even the patch is 31GB right? so might predownload today i reckon

where do i swap the ggpk inside my kegs?

[proud igloo]

Somewhere inside your bundle contents there'll be a drive_c which has the game under whatever Windows-like path you first installed it in.

[glacial vault]

yes, there is a drice c

[proud igloo]

The idea about the the pre-download is that one gets two choices:
a) do nothing and when patching goes live, download ~31 gigs in ~3h;
b) download ~103 gigs from torrent now in ~14h and then when patching goes live, download way less to patch the last few bits in the remaining ~3h.

[glacial vault]

yeah, 110 it says @proud igloo

and funnily, it downloaded 32 GB like instantly..

and the rest is happening slowly

[rugged jungle]

103 gigs

thats like half my storage

and i only have like 20 gigs left bc i got parallels recently to run solidworks fml

[proud igloo]

Good taste in CAM.

My M1 Mini can't fit much in the way of PoEs either, opted to get more RAM rather than disk, as I figured I could put data on external storage.

[sterile goblet]

I got it down to 3 fields but I’m not confident yet

downloading the game again overnight to test some more first

[lilac trail]

Technically you should only need the renderer_type=DirectX12 under [Display]
The game should populate everything else once it is at the login screen

[sterile goblet]

if you read the thread a little up that wasn’t working

[lilac trail]

I thought that was when a new file was attempted, not an existing one ported over for POE. If you edit an existing POE file and just have
[Display]
renderer_type=DirectX12

That doesn't work ?

[dim quest]

is poe2 available for mac?

or we need some VM?

[floral dew]

When installing the PoE2 trade app. Do I download it, then install it in the same wrapper as my PoE2 install?

[floral dew]

Kegworks install. Check the top pinned post for all the instructions you need

[sterile goblet]

oh, yeah I think so

[lilac trail]

Which app r u referring to, the replacement of Awakened POE ?

There is no need to use Kegworks. APT and Exiled are both Mac native. For PoB and POB2 you would make them in their own wrappers.

[floral dew]

Yup the replacement of Awakened PoE. Nice! Makes sense, thanks man.

[lilac trail]

There might be a pinned message and/or setup details on the wiki for both of these

[floral dew]

yeah i was following the wiki, I just didnt realize it was universal and i just install it straight to the mac. up and running, now just waiting for the patch server to stop disconnecting me lol

[drifting delta]

I cannot even connect to the patch server. I am guessing there is too many requests?

[floral dew]

yeah, same thing. Either too many connects, or it is not fully up yet and ready for download

[drifting delta]

Looks like it is going now

[lilac trail]

As FunkyFeline mentioned, there is a wiki that outlines how to run the games. Note - you only have 2 options to play POE2. Crossover (which you need to buy) or Kegworks (which is free).

[lilac trail]

How did using the torrent route go ?

[proud igloo]

350 megabytes of fixup patch for torrenting, btw.

[lilac trail]

I'm downloading the patch now since I have a pretty decent async internet connection. It says the patch is 40GB (40.04). I saw last night someone said it was over 100GB ?

[proud igloo]

The patch without any pre-downloading is 40 gigs, advertised on the website is around 31 gigs.

The small fixup patch if you predownloaded 103 gigs of torrent is 350 megs.

[lilac trail]

I don't understand how something can be 103 gigs in a torrent if it's actually only a maximum of 40GB but I don't really need to know. Update is done. It took about 15-20 minutes but I can understand those with a slow internet connection would go the torrent route

Happy Hunting to all the Exiles participating ! I'm not joining this hunt.

[proud igloo]

The torrent contains the whole game while the normal patch only patches in new files.

[lilac trail]

Ah ok - now I get it 🙂

[peak garnet]

Anyone having issues with the game not loading at all? I just dl the patch and updated fine but now it wont load at all, the first window appears as if it's going to update but it just closes on it's own

[wet nymph]

Or in the other direction, has anyone successfully launched the game, and on what platform?

On kegworks I installed the patch but now it gets stuck on "checking resources"

[peak garnet]

same

[wet nymph]

ok solution? use kegworks winery to install the latest engine (WS12WineCX24.0.7). Then switch the wineskin to use that (launch the hidden wineskin.app inside the keg)

[peak garnet]

this is the update that shows up for me

[wet nymph]

use the refresh button

er. use kegworks to install 24.07 first if you havent

[peak garnet]

ok

[peak garnet]

@wet nymph that worked, thanks

[glacial vault]

so the torrent took forver to download, nearly 12 hrs or so...really throttled

so it finished around 1 am

the upside is the smaller 350MB patch took seconds

game is launching

plenty crashing, eh?

cant enter town

huntress is nice though

[wet nymph]

i love unknow objects. especially the kind serialized by the server

[proud igloo]

Become hermit, refuse civilization.

[glacial vault]

well, if u start the game again, ur in clearfell...that is alright, i thought i had to fight the miller again

its a crashfest

[proud igloo]

Something about town and people, so spend as little time in there as you can.

[steady aurora]

You should also click “Update Wrapper” or you’ll have a rather outdated wrapper that can cause problems

[peak garnet]

Thank you, fixed already, hadn't played poe2 in like a month so it was outdated

[quiet sapphire]

unknown type serialized by server

multiple crashes in town, anyone else?

happens when i interact with inventory items in town i think

[proud igloo]

Known issue, under investigation.

[queen pasture]

Does anyone have experience with EE2 on macos? the overlay disappears the second i mouse over it

[sudden obsidian]

I updated to 24.07 but still nothing happens when I try to start the game. Did you delete all files and download again or did it just work for you?

[lilac trail]

Post a screenshot showing wrapper and engine version. Also - what is renderer_type set to ?

[sudden obsidian]

I was 23.7.1_1 like OP, but I deleted that engine, installed 24.07, and am in the middle of doing a fresh install of POE2 using the kegworks guide (https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Guide:Path_of_Exile_on_Mac_using_Windows_Client#POE_2.0_EA_Setup_options) - i'll update if I'm able to open the game or not when done. I have selected the Direct3D to Metal translation layer option if that's what you mean by renderer_type

[lilac trail]

You don’t delete engines (you can be usually you just leave them as is). Did you delete the whole bottle and start over ? Make sure the wrapper is the latest as well 3.1.5 should be it (3.1.6 is coming)
renderer_type is the setting in the production_Config.ini file. You set that before you start the game after setup.

If you follow the wiki it should be all good 👍🤞

[sudden obsidian]

I just hope I deleted the right stuff. What I got rid of was the Kegworks folder in my userdrive (which included the POE2 wrapper and nothing else). That's it, so if I needed to get rid of hidden folders in my library I might be in trouble, but I'm only about 50Gb into the 90Gb downlaod so I'll find out later tonight

and thanks for the heads up about the config file, I'll make sure I do that

& yes wrapper is 3.1.5

[lilac trail]

There are no hidden files with Kegworks. Bottles are self contained. They all live in
/Users/<username>/Applications/Kegworks
If you called your keg POE2 in that folder for the game, you would just delete it. That’s it

The master wrapper lives in /Applications. That is where you update the wrapper version and engine for when you create a new bottle. After that you change wrapper and engine version in the KegworksConfig menu (which I assume you already have been to before)

There have been reports by a few users, who like you, either followed the wiki or updated wrapper and engine but the game still failed to start. If the games fails to start after you have done everything - check the ini file has the correct renderer set.
If it does then check the Client.txt file. If it has a whole bunch of VK_ entries it is likely the game is not reading the ini file

To “fix” this use the template file Snow has posted for the config_ini file. Make sure that file has the correct renderer setting. Then start the game. It should work. Hopefully you do not need to go this far in getting things up and running.

[lime temple]

anyone run into an issue of repeated inputs with playing POE2 with CrossOver? Anykey entered will repeated ingame, but outside of the game it's all normal.

Eg: i type top, i see ttoopp in game

[sudden obsidian]

Sorry work has been crazy - just a quick update to say deleting the keg and reinstalling along with the update to 24.07 allowed me to start the game again no problems.

[safe tapir]

Hey guys best way to play on mac right now is still wine??

[fossil dock]

yes

[safe tapir]

Great👍👍 anyone playing on new m4 air by any chance? I’m thinking to upgrade from my M1 Pro 16gb to something newer

[lilac trail]

Take a look on the wiki regarding recommended specs to play the games. The more CPU and RAM the better. Even with 16GB memory I don’t think the MB Air is going to cut it. You’d be lucky to get 40FPS and that would be in town. That’s just my opinion of course but the Air is not really built for CPU/GPU intensive games. Plus it would double as a fry pan since the Air has no fans.

[rugged jungle]

air is not good for gaming imo

... tbf mac itself isnt exactly ideal for gaming

[lilac trail]

Agree. It's more of a nice to have bonus, and it's a limited bonus at that. Anyone with an MB Air or with 16GB or less really should be using one of the cloud gaming options such as GFN

[proud igloo]

Playing on an Air?
Sounds like "We have Righteous Fire at home"

[lilac trail]

🤣

[sterile goblet]

anyone else crashing every time they go to the caravan?

first character had no problems at all

so confused

[lilac trail]

Is there an error message on screen or in the Client.txt log when this happens ? Is it possible to create a new instance and not crash ? If nothing in logs and it happens constantly then sounds like a ticket to GGG, which will of course disappear into a black hole unless everyone is reporting it on the forum

[sterile goblet]

where is client.txt?

right now Im in a crash loop where I cant login to the character so new instance isnt possible to test

I have a wine log

[lilac trail]

The Client.txt file is in the logs directory. That is in C:\Program Files (x86)\Grinding Gear Games\Path of Exile\Logs

A WINE log won't be very useful. This is a game issue - not a translation app issue I suspect. Hopefully the Client.txt file will have some sort of indicator in it

[sterile goblet]

hm I see client and latestclient

neither have obvious errors

2025/04/12 08:21:20 4749789 775aec31 [INFO Client 196] [SCENE] Set Source [(null)]
2025/04/12 08:21:20 4749789 4228f822 [INFO Client 196] [ENTITY] Wipe static entities
2025/04/12 08:21:20 4749799 4228f7e2 [INFO Client 196] [ENTITY] Finalize static entities
2025/04/12 08:21:20 4749829 2d8e89d3 [DEBUG Client 196] Got Instance Details from login server
2025/04/12 08:21:20 4749829 2627f120 [INFO Client 196] [ENGINE] Loading state active: TRUE
2025/04/12 08:21:20 4749837 e2ea37c6 [INFO Client 196] [SHADER] Delay: OFF
2025/04/12 08:21:20 4749837 91c6cc8 [INFO Client 196] Connecting to instance server at 192.155.96.8:21360
2025/04/12 08:21:20 4749886 91c69a8 [DEBUG Client 196] Connect time to instance server was 35ms
2025/04/12 08:21:20 4749936 2caa1651 [DEBUG Client 196] Client-Safe Instance ID = 3796420535
2025/04/12 08:21:20 4749954 2caa1adf [DEBUG Client 196] Generating level 32 area "G2_town" with seed 1
2025/04/12 08:21:26 4756275 f0c29dd4 [INFO Client 196] Tile hash: 1414081272
2025/04/12 08:21:26 4756275 f0c29dd7 [INFO Client 196] Doodad hash: 1797091165
2025/04/12 08:21:26 4756368 775aec31 [INFO Client 196] [SCENE] Set Source [The Ardura Caravan]
2025/04/12 08:21:26 4756368 4228f822 [INFO Client 196] [ENTITY] Wipe static entities
2025/04/12 08:21:26 4756374 99240e15 [DEBUG Client 196] [SCENE] Height Map Texture: 540 x 480
2025/04/12 08:21:26 4756398 4228f7e2 [INFO Client 196] [ENTITY] Finalize static entities
2025/04/12 08:21:27 4756971 1a61ee23 [DEBUG Client 196] Joined guild named Chaos with 7 members 
2025/04/12 08:21:27 4757040 1a61e9a6 [DEBUG Client 196] InstanceClientSetSelfPartyInvitationSecurityCode = 0

just debugs and info logs at the end of the file

[lilac trail]

I don't kow what LatestClient is - except that it is much smaller than the Client.txt log. Interesting to see. I should poke around in there sometime

[sterile goblet]

set source null is sus but idk

[lilac trail]

Have you tried using a different gateway ?

[sterile goblet]

hm no let me try

interesting, it worked this time

it’s worked for like a map at a time before but hopefully that was the whole issue

[lilac trail]

Worked on a different gateway or the same gateway you have been using ?

[sterile goblet]

different one

oh previous it was sometimes working on the old gateway I always use

[lilac trail]

Cool. Then it was an instance issue on the other gateway then by the sound of it.

[sterile goblet]

fingers crossed yeah

[lilac trail]

Would be interesting to see if you switched back to previous gateway if the issue still occurred

[sterile goblet]

if I crash again I’ll test it 😭

[lilac trail]

But hey - why spoil it when you have a working instance. No need to feed curiosity at this point 😀

[sterile goblet]

I’m too anxious to try rn. trying to reroll a character into endgame

thanks for the help

[lilac trail]

Has anyone tried to do the discord quest for POE2 ? I assume you can accept the quest on the native Mac discord and then complete it as per the rules for the quest ?

[lusty spade]

Some complaints: Playing and trading on mac-os is a bit frustrating, I have to turn /dnd on at all time and when I try to turn /dnd off to make a trade, my client crash like 1-3 times to finish a trade. Sometimes I get ignored from others due to frequent crash clients. Some people don't know how/refuse to play POE on Mac using windows client (like me) and they would often stuck with /dnd mode or quit the game so I hope they fix the mac-os crash clients issue on 3.26 or soon.

[lilac trail]

You do not need to use /dnd if you use the Windows client on a Mac AND use the native Mac version of Exile-Exchange. The setup guides for both are on the wiki, which is the first pinned message. This is the only way you can play POE2 and the only way to stop crashes running POE on a Mac. Three of the WINE based options are free. I’ve no idea why anyone is still trying to use the native Mac or Mac based Steam client. They are disasters and will not be fixed.

[lusty spade]

Switched to windows client and omg, it ultilize the entire GPU on my mac and I missed out so much graphic and game performance upgrade entire time. I still think some people (like me) afraid of trying window client and stick with /dnd because of not understand how to setup or scared of it affecting their computer. Still hope they fix the mac-os clients so more people can play the game without setup to windows client.

[lilac trail]

Which app did you choose to run the Windows version ? You can use it for both POE and POE2 of course.
The wiki is, by necessity, a wall of words, but that is because there are 4 options for POE on M series, 3 for Intel and 2 for POE2. Lot to cover but once you have followed one of the options it becomes a lot more straight forward. If you know of others still suffering by using the Mac or Mac steam client let them know there is a viable alternative that is pretty straight forward to set up.

There is a native Mac client under development for POE2. No release date. Not until at least 0.3.0, probably later. If this also covers POE and the Mac client on Steam for both that would great. If it does not then the WINE based apps are the only possibility for POE for Mac users.

[proud igloo]

Sounds like that particular town instance was broken and reset by now, in case you're reluctant to play on your favourite gateway.

[dim quest]

Guys, anyone has found an easy and simple way to use PoB on mac?

[lilac trail]

Yes. Follow the wiki guide - link is the first pinned message. This also includes PoB2 for POE2,and Exile Exchange, which is a replacement for APT (for POE2 at least)

[dim quest]

I use Gforce now , i stream play the game, do u think exile exchange would work anyways? is image based?

[lilac trail]

You can use PoB without an issue but you won’t be able to use either EE or APT with GeForce though. There is a web based app that can do some of the things they do. You basically copy and paste the item in and it gives you an estimate of what it could go for. That’s about as good as you will get.

[little vapor]

i cant connect to poe2 trade site...when i try to msg for a trade it says im offline always anyone know how to fix? Im connected with same acct i log into poe2.

[azure ridge]

cheers boss, have been AFK for a few months and this helped me post update

[edgy jacinth]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/04/teen-coder-shuts-down-open-source-mac-app-whisky-citing-harm-to-paid-apps/

[steady aurora]

They twisted what Issac said like most outlet

[edgy jacinth]

Is this the best place to get info direct from Isaac? https://docs.getwhisky.app/maintenance-notice

Or what did they mess up? Just curiuos

[steady aurora]

Sigh leave the guy alone

[edgy jacinth]

For sure

[swift chasm]

Have anyone found out if there’s a way to price check on GeForce now when playing on Mac?

[drifting delta]

I copy and paste the item https://poe-item-checker.vercel.app/ to price check

[hybrid edge]

Hey, has this always been there?

Like has the install button always been available on macOS for PoE2?

[lilac trail]

There is no Mac client for MacOS. This has been on Steam for some unknown reason since before EA was launched.

[hybrid edge]

Ah ok, thanks B

[polar sundial]

hello, I've been having the mentioned config ini issue. Where can I find this template file fix?

NVM I think I found it

it worked like a charm

[dim mural]

if i buy the steam early access supporter pack can i play the game on the stand alone client? how will i receive access to early access?

[proud igloo]

An account can have more than one game platform associated with it, you can see your connections at https://www.pathofexile.com/my-account/connections.
You can see the early access status for your account at https://www.pathofexile.com/my-account/early-access.
Buying a pack on Steam grants PC EA to your account and adds the game to your Steam library. If you already have or associate standalone login information with your account you can then also use the standalone client.
Buying a pack on the website shop grants PC EA to your account and also store keys that can be used to add the game to your Steam and Epic libraries.

See also the section on "How to redeem a key" in the EA FAQ: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3587981

[dim mural]

so its safe to buy it on steam (due to conversion rate) and it will automatically be accessable on my standalone if the account is linked?

[proud igloo]

That's how it should work, yeah.

[dim mural]

does anybody know why it wont let me disable triple buffering on mac through crossover?

hi did you find a solution to this?

[lilac trail]

I don’t think you can on a Mac. I don’t recall being able to change it.

[torpid crescent]

im currently following the installation guide on the wiki using kegworks and on step 14 where its asking me to remove 2.0 and 2.1 directories but these directories dont show up in the folder

[lilac trail]

Are you setting up POE or POE2 ? That step is NOT required for POE2

Also - what path is that folder shown above. It doesn't seem to have folders and files I recognise as being part of the renderer/d3dmetal directory

[steady aurora]

The latest Kegworks wrapper now only provides D3DMetal-v2.1

There should be no reason to downgrade to an older version with WineCX24.0.7

[torpid crescent]

im setting up poe 1 and the folder path is Contents/Frameworks/renderer/d3dmetal

[lilac trail]

Is the full path /Users/<username>/Applications/Kegworks/name.app/Contents/Frameworks/renderer/d3dmetal
The files in the folder you have aren't what is usually there.

[torpid crescent]

yes

[lilac trail]

OK. It looks like that has been removed in the latest release of Kegworks. Is your bottle using wrapper 3.1.7_2 and 24.0.7 engine ?

[torpid crescent]

yes

it seems still have issues after going through all the rest of the setup steps because the game opens on black screen and closes after a min

[lilac trail]

OK. Looks like that step can be removed now. The issue you are describing is something funky with the config_ini file. There is a template file that the user Snow provided. It is in this thread. Let me see if I can find it ... just a sec.
While I'm looking - what does your current config_ini file look like ?

[lilac trail]

That looks normal. Your graphics are set. to D3DMetal right ?

[torpid crescent]

yes

i found the thread you were talking about so im gonna copy that and try again

[lilac trail]

Good because my discord search skills are abysmal. I could not find the file link. Can you provide it here for me

NVM - I found it too

[torpid crescent]

can we pin it in this channel

it seems pretty important

also after copying the config the game runs smoothly now

thanks for helping

[lilac trail]

I'll edit the wiki and include the link there. I've no idea why this is happening. GGG or MacOS update changed something recently. It seemed to be an isolated issue at first but it seems to every time someone sets the game up now. Glad to hear it's up and running now.

[lilac trail]

Likely MacOS since this was a POE issue and that has not been touched for almost a year.

[tropic ibex]

Hey just wanted to come on here and ask how the mac port of POE 1 runs? I was wondering if I should download it on my mac or my Ally X

[lilac trail]

As in the native Mac client ? Don’t. It’s broken - both the standalone and the Steam client. The workaround is to use the Windows based client via one of the methods outlined on the wiki - a link to which is pinned at the top of the channel.

Also the only way to play POE2 is via this method.

[sand oxide]

Anyone play PoE2 on a Mac mini M4? Which app offers best performance for running it?

[lilac trail]

What configuration ? A base model with 8GB will likely not do well, regardless of which WINE app chosen. If you have 16GB or more of memory any of those listed will work. There is little difference. Crossover has the most up to date engine but Kegworks is free (and what I use).

[hazy void]

I have a 16GB M1 pro macbook, kegworks works fine but doesn't want to use native resolution (3024x1964) and forces half on both axes in borderless windowed and displays a 1/4 rectangle in fullscreen

said rectangle is not fully interactive in fullscreen weirdly

(this happens when I try to set resolution in config ini)

I want higher resolution not even for prettier graphics but to have a more dezoomed camera

[lilac trail]

I'm running native resolution on POE2 via Kegworks just fine - 3456x1944 on a MBPro M1 Max in all 3 modes so it isn't Kegworks that is throwing your graphics off. It's either the display settings on your Mac or the in-game settings. These are my settings. Although this is POE2, POE should be similar and work the same way (I actually use GPTK itself for POE because it was the only option in the early days of WINE-DirectX12). You can also use BetterDisplay can create a virtual monitor with settings you want and run the game that way (I've run it in 16k mode that way).

[hazy void]

Thanks I’ll try harder

[hazy void]

thank you so much, the issue was my display settings and better display fixed it <3

[fossil dock]

What is 16k mode?

[lilac trail]

A virtual monitor that the display number would be 16xxx by some other stupidly large number for screen resolution. I think I might still have a screenshot of what that looks like. You basically need a magnifying glass to see anything. I could not really see any difference in graphic quality in the game, but it was fun to try it.

I think I posted a screenshot of the graphics tab showing the 16k res in this channel somewhere

[open jetty]

Is there still planned macos release at some point?

[fickle shadow]

I think we might have a hope 😅

[proud igloo]

I've got an external SSD partitioned as exFAT. Can I use that meaningfully with my M1, or do I need to go and subpartition it?

Thinking along the line of whether one can make a disk image on it or something.

[trail lichen]

Doesn't your Mac directly recognize your ExFat partition?

With disk image, what exactly do you want to achieve. If you can give more detailed information I can help you better.

There are multiple types of disk images for different purposes. Like virtual disks, solid disk images etc.

[lilac trail]

Just add to the above - if you are looking to make a disk image to boot from, you won't be able to do a Windows one, since Apple Silicon don't support that 😡 - but you probably already knew that.

[proud igloo]

Just for ancillary storage of things like PoE and PoB. I don't trust that exfat is enough of a POSIX filesystem on its own so I'd need some sort of ergonomic virtual disk on it.

It's hard enough already to run things on a mac, I don't want to also fight filesystem case differences, lacknif symlinks, and other such semantics. Had enough of that with Linux 😉

[steady aurora]

Yeah don’t use anything other than a macOS native file system or expect things to not work correctly under wine

Same thing for Linux

[proud igloo]

Just got to dig out the M1 from under the pile of stuff on the home desk and see what it has to offer.

[trail lichen]

I have a suggestion

You can use GDisk (GPT Fdisk) which is available for Linux and Windows to format your external SSD's partition table both with GPT and MBR, then add partitions using GDisk to your preference, then you can format them to UDF filesystem. You can use Rufus in Windows to format your partition to UDF and cli tools on Linux. It's a POSIX filesystem and being recognized by nearly every modern and ancient OS, and I got much much faster R/W speeds than ExFat in my own tests. You can learn more about it on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format

It's originally designed for optical media but works so well in external drives. It's like a miracle that it's natively supported like FAT without needing for external stuff.

If you still would like to create / view /modify virtual disks you can use this awesome freeware on Windows. It has dozens of options including creating ram disks which drastically speeds up your game loading times if you have spare ram during gaming sessions.

https://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html

[trail lichen]

P.S. you can use the .IMG format for you needs.

And have any filesystem inside it including RAW.

[lilac trail]

Oh - some nice links to take a look at. Never heard of UDF before. Learn something new every day. Been a long time since I’ve heard RAM disk or osforensics 😀 Time for a trip down memory lane

[trail lichen]

In the past, while PoE 1's game assets still were not taking much of a disk space I used to copy their main folders to OSFMount ramdisk and symlink them in place of real folders (especially 3D models of mobs, map objects and effects) to speed up my loading screen times. Loading screens are much faster now compared to the past and the game no longer has invisible mobs problem like it used to be.

[lilac trail]

I can still remember posts about using ramdisks for POE1 .
Have you tested performance of UDF vs ADFS ? ADFS is of course limited to Mac, which is ok if you only use the drive for Mac related stuff, but I'm curious how UDF compares to ADFS regardless, since UDF will allow for reads and writes from both Mac and Windows (I assume)

[trail lichen]

By ADFS you mean APFS? Apple Filesystem?

Or is it something different?

To be honest I am not a Mac user myself but still gladly ready to help over things I have knowledge of

Let me research ADFS

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Disc_Filing_System
Found it I assume

That looks like it dates to much much older times than UDF

[lilac trail]

Sorry - typo - yes APFS

[trail lichen]

Than doesn't seem to be much useful in today's standards, does it?

[trail lichen]

Ahh 😄

Me doing research on an ancient filesystem because of a typo was funny

[lilac trail]

Didn't know ADFS was a thing ! APFS is Apple's file system management format. I would expect it to be faster than UDF, since it is specific to macOS whereas UDF is an all round system, which will mean it has to sacrifice some performance to accommodate that it is multi-purpose. Not sure there will be a lot of data on UDF vs APFS. UDF is not something I've seen commonly discussed when talking about file system formats. Is it limited (UDF) in the file sizes it can accommodate (like a 2GB limit). That would be annoying.

[proud igloo]

Supposedly one of the interchange filesystems prior to exFAT that did >4GB files.

[trail lichen]

It's not limited like FAT, you can store whatever you want freely

Best part is it has chkdsk support in Windows

[lilac trail]

Cool. Now all I need is an external SSD to try things with 😀

[trail lichen]

So you at least have chance to repair stuff in case it gets corrupted over years

I've switched my internal main storage partition to ReFS on windows years ago. In the end it made me so mad when I noticed some of my files got corrupted over time. There's no repair function or such in ReFS and files still get corrupted despite ShitSoft's claim about being "resilient" and will be going to eventually replace NTFS

[trail lichen]

You can use any usb flash drive

I think phones recognize UDF as well over OTG but may be vendor specific

[lilac trail]

True but the r/w of USB is generally not as good as an SSD. I think SSD still can accommodate larger storage size as well.

[trail lichen]

You said you want to try out, that's why I suggested so

[lilac trail]

For those who are interested in how their games perform (not just POE) this app is very handy. It is a native app so no need to install using WINE. You can also use it if you are running games via one of the apps on the wiki.

https://macgamesdb.com/fps-analyzer/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10r_cHkTIsY&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

[fossil dock]

But what I can to do with that information? 🙂

[lilac trail]

The FPS piece isn’t as useful since most modern games have FPS but it’s the additional info pulled from Metal HUD that is interesting (cpu, gpu and temperature). I hope at some stage they add the capability to run the metrics for a full session and the stats write to a file. Overall it helps when people ask “can this game run on …” since it has an online db that shows the info generated. Is it required - nope. An update was released yesterday to fix a few glitches.

[young mica]

hey guys sorry im new for macos gaming at all, ive just tried poe 1 installed from steam it was actually so bad, perma crash and unable to connect to servers without vpn lol

im wondering if windows client using crossover will be any better?

m2 base model

[fossil dock]

Yes, use crossover

[young mica]

thanks will try

[fossil dock]

You can use trial period and then make a decision

[lilac trail]

There is a pinned post that has a wiki page link outlining options to use the Windows client.

[young mica]

yeah i read this before posting here, but there is a lot of options wondering which better

[lilac trail]

They are all the same performance wise. I would recommend either Crossover (have to buy) or Kegworks (free). These are both maintained and have discord channels for support. Those are also the only choices for POE2.

[light mason]

updated my os. the game kept crashing now

[marsh swift]

how is there a mac support and then there is just no way to login, wtf is that for crap KEKW

[atomic herald]

It maybe is cause apple is bad at backward compatible, so the programmers are ehm ghrmbld every update from apple OS

[proud igloo]

Heh, was greatly surprised when my game launched after patching just a bit over five gigs on a "fresh install".

Forgot that it stores the actual client and pack in Application Support even if you've got Applications on a different volume.

[proud igloo]

My M1 is a bit behind, 15.3.1 when 15.5 is out recently.

I really need to buy another mouse, switching the single one via KVM isn't super ergonomic and I keep typing on the wrong keyboard 😄

[lilac trail]

There isn’t really a compelling reason to upgrade. Sequioa has software support for AVX/AVX2 but that’s about it. I think only the M3 has ray tracing so you’re out of luck there too. I had a KVM once, when mouse connectors were a PS2 - yes I am that old 😜

[proud igloo]

Ooh. Sneaky.
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mediaanalysisd is taking up 56 gigs on my poor little M1.

No wonder I'm constantly out of space.

[lilac trail]

Oh nasty. What does that actually have in it ? I’m getting skinny on disk space on a 2TB disk these days. Time to clean shop and move games to an external drive

[proud igloo]

Seems like it's a common problem on the apple forums, peeps suspect it might have something to do with "optimised" images in the Photo Library or something.

Didn't really find any conclusive source for what it actually has in it.

Let's see if the upgrade process can actually do something now that I have space instead of just silently locking the screen.

[proud igloo]

Update to 15.5 worked, native PoE1 still launches.

Looks like the OS these days defaults to auto-updating the OS now, with opt-out in system prefs.

[steady aurora]

Is been that way for sometime now, that’s why you never want to get into the beta branch or you’ll get potentially macOS breakages

But that’s also the case with windows for years now too

[unkempt onyx]

Does anyone here personally run poe1 on a MacBook Pro M4? I’m considering getting one and just curious how well Poe runs on it

[old sequoia]

I bet it's better than on windows I have m4max I don't have any major problems

[fossil dock]

M3 max have 10-15 fps with delirium and breach

[mighty pike]

Hey everyone! I just started playing poe1 on my M2 Pro MacBook (16GB, macOS) via Steam, but it crashes every 5 minutes. Any known fixes?

[rocky sinew]

go into dnd mode and it will be fixed. still it's better to play it in crossover with directx12. performance is better with a lot of mobs/projectiles

they broke this with the accounting changes for poe2. hopefully fixed in 3.26

[trail lichen]

May it be a local ML model for image classification, tagging and searching? But still 56 gigabytes is huge for such a model

[fossil dock]

Use Win v3rsion via wine*

[fossil dock]

Select "store data in iCloud" to reduce space usage

[proud igloo]

My iCloud is beyond full and I'm not paying for it, unfortunately. Owning an iPhone in the past was a mistake 😄

[marble gate]

I would just about explode if we got real Mac support—I’ll take even an acknowledgement!!—tomorrow.

Either way, I am still very hyped for the coming POE 2 mac support that was said is coming. Gotta keep hope alive 🙏

[old sequoia]

I'm most curious about how this support will look like, like poe1, so I'll thank you for this support, on mac you have to really try to get the first one to work because on the latest systems it's almost impossible to run it on parallels, I only managed to run it even on the starting location, I have lags

[lilac trail]

Using a VM is a non-starter for both POE games. When POE was more CPU load oriented it was possible but now that more of the load is GPU based, and VM’s are not good at emulating GPU’s, you have to use either WINE based apps or a native client if it exists.

[young mica]

well i tested crossover poe 1 on my 8gb mac m2

this is literally unplayable at all, its like 30 seconds - 1 minute loading screens , and it's like 2 fps with freezes for 5+seconds every second which is crazy

im sure that problem because of shader compilation but i dont know any way to compile them without playing the game which is compile them dynamically

maybe i did something wrong but im not sure what exactly could improve gameplay here

[lilac trail]

The POE’s are essentially unplayable on a system with only 8GB, even with everything on lowest settings. This is mentioned on the wiki. The best option in that case is to use a cloud gaming platform (GFN, Boosteroid, etc)

[steady aurora]

Most games are unplayable with the base spec Apple silicon systems, “unified memory” means it’s shared between the CPU & GPU cores

That’s why’s the newer Apple silicon systems now have a minimum of 16GB of ram

[lilac trail]

Yes. Apple also bumped the minimum amount of RAM because of their Apple AI. It has a base requirement that takes at least 5GB by itself and there is no option turn not install it.

[edgy jacinth]

From patch notes - "Fixed a client crash that could occur on macOS."

They know we exist!

[fossil dock]

but it not works at all

[edgy jacinth]

Patch isn't out yet

But yeah still probably won't matter lol

Just nice to hear they know we're out there

[lilac trail]

Considering the issues with both the standalone and the client via steam this seems an odd thing to fix since it’s almost impossible to update the Mac client and as far as I know the steam one still has multithreading disabled. What exactly does this “fix” and for which Mac OS ?

[proud igloo]

Fixed a problem where Bob somehow was able to play the game.

[dire hearth]

I'll always lol @ gaming on a mac

[lilac trail]

For those interested (I never knew this existed) - https://cyberhost.uk/the-hidden-macos-speedtest-tool-networkquality/

[atomic herald]

now i have updated my mac OS 😛

[lilac trail]

To what OS - you were on Monterey if I remember correctly

[atomic herald]

i was on Monterey yea, now Sequoia 15.5

i manage to logon poe1 standalone 👀

[lilac trail]

Oh very exciting - it updated without issues ? Actually I can go try that - I think I still have the Mac client installed. The FPS cap is probably still there but it would be interesting to see how the client performs now

[atomic herald]

haha, it crashes all the time

lets see if the /dnd trick works...

[lilac trail]

That's funny given the patch notes said something about fixing a client crash ....

[proud igloo]

That's for 3.26.0 I believe, due on Fri/Sat. We're currently still on 3.25.x.

[lilac trail]

Ah - my bad.

[atomic herald]

the /dnd worked, i could complete a map on lowest...

but i guess it is not rly stable

i was just testing anyway, now back to minecraft 😛

[atomic herald]

what did not work was i tested full screen and then cmd tab go to discord, and then not possible to enter back to poe1, i heard the sound of game but it did now show (when i use windowed mode, almost full screen as usual, worked, then i can go via the app-sidelist to show discord overlay, and back)

[wet nymph]

is it better these days to play native, or through wineskin / whiskey / whatever?

[lilac trail]

WINE based apps are still effectively the only way to play. You can’t use Whisky for POE2 and I would not recommend it for POE. Use one of the apps in the wiki.
There is a fix for MacOS clients coming that may help with the native client but it will need to be tested before being declared useable.

[wet nymph]

is it just the crashing, or is perf also better under wine?

in other words, if the fix works would native be better?

[lilac trail]

Crashing is only one issue. The standalone has issues with graphics and updating. It is also capped at 60FPS, so you never get higher than that.

The steam client has multithreading disabled. That means performance will be sub par at best.

For now, it is best to stick to the WINE based setups. Jonathan mentioned in passing that they had a new (I assume it is new and not a band aid) Mac client being used internally as part of POE2. It has no release date.

[wet nymph]

thanks

[fossil dock]

Hmm... New GPTK beta is out....

[lilac trail]

It is. Not sure there is anything in it that would be useful. Both CO and KWS won’t use it till it’s full release, though people can manually update if they really want to.

[fossil dock]

controller support?

[tidal fog]

Hey has anyone got POE1 playing on crossover on M1? The win7 64bit bottle from crossover doesn't work, but a lot of people on the crossover compatibility webiste say it is working fine.

[lilac trail]

It works fine. You can use the Crossover install but it is out of date. You can follow the wiki page (which is in the pinned messages) to install using Crossover. Use a Win10 or Win11 64-bit bottle

[tidal fog]

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Guide:Path_of_Exile_on_Mac_using_Windows_Client this one??

[lilac trail]

Yeap

What are your system specs

[tidal fog]

M1 pro 16gb

[lilac trail]

OK. It'll be a bit slow but if you use the lowest settings it will be playable. POE (both of them) are resource hungry. No way around that.

[tidal fog]

I played a lot of poe1 on my mac 🙂 I know, when going flicker on 3.25 i just hold the flicker button and the slideshow commences 😄

I bought a ps5 pro because my desktop pc PSU shorted and killed my computer 😦 but playing on a pad sucks, no K&M

so I'll try crossover, if not I'll play via GFN

the best setup would be if PS5 allowed keyboard and mouse via remote play 😦

[lilac trail]

Yeah. I used to run Flcikerstike in Toxic sewer maps. I couldn't follow the character most of the time 🤣 Any of the WINE based apps will give you roughly the same performance, so if CO doesn't cut it then you can consider GFN, or another cloud based service (there is a small write up on wiki of the Pros and Cons). Steam deck might be another possibility but I've not heard of anyone using that, but it does seem to run ok for other games.

[tidal fog]

i borrowed a steamdeck once, it was bad

geforce now is good, but on mac you cant really use trademacro so it sucks :/ there are some ios apps that do that but its terrible

I just run a lootfilter strict enough I dont need to do that often 😛

[lilac trail]

Yeah - that is one of the cons of GFN. You can use a web browser via GFN though as I understand it and there are item pricing websites you could use instead of APT. You copy/paste int othe website and it spits out a price. About the best you can hope for

[tidal fog]

no, no that, let me find it, sec

https://github.com/KloppstockBw/GFNPoEPriceCheck

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hok7qu/how_to_use_exiledexchange_2_with_geforce_now/?sort=new

it basically is an autohotkey macro, that makes a google doc, that it pastes the item into, then on your windows PC it copies the item from the google doc, into awakened trade macro

so it bypasses the lack of clipboard copy/paste between GFN and the system

[lilac trail]

Oh cool - I've not been up to speed so this is good information. Do these actually use AHK or just mimic it via some method. I've always wanted to get AHK to run on a Mac.

[tidal fog]

it uses an AHK script, i looked but afaik there is no equivalent or translator

[lilac trail]

Curious - AHK is windows based so usually you need to install it on a computer and AHK won't work natively on a Mac. You can't install AHK on GFN. I'll go read up on how they do that

Let us know how you go if you go the GFN route

Ah - the second link refers to the first application program and it's using autoit, not ahk, which makes sense. Similar tool to AHK.

[edgy jacinth]

is there any way to install AHK onto a crossover bottle and then use those tools with PoE also installed into the same bottle?

[brave trail]

I used GFN last league start but now looking at it, it has a 100 hour monthly limit. Is it still worth it?

Also has anyone tried boosteroid, it seems like a decent alternative

[lilac trail]

You can install AHK in CO. I’ve done that. The challenge I hit a roadblock with is executing a script. The script that comes with it to track mouse co-ordinates runs and I had scripts installed in the same folder but they don’t appear in the bottle and I don’t know how to get them to run via the script hotkey. I might give it another try. There is a Crossover reddit and discord channel but it’s not a common app.

[formal mauve]

Hey everyone. Just setup PoE 1 in CO for the new leauge tomorrow. If I want to setup PoB and Awaken do I install them in separate bottles or within the same one?

[lilac trail]

PoB in seperate bottles. You do not need to install APT in a bottle. It has a native Mac version. You can also use it's replacement Exile-Exchange (I think it is called).

[formal mauve]

Thanks for the answer Bob. I have a MBP M1 Pro 10/10 with 32GB, you happen to know roughly what settings should be alright for 60fps for a 2560x1440 display?

[lilac trail]

You should be ok with that config to run the game decently. It's been a while since I played so not sure what settings are available in POE. Use the defaults and see what happens. I have a M1 Max with 64GB so my settings are a mix of default and high. You won't likely get 60FPS once you have a lot of things onscreen. The game has always worked for me around 40-45FPS. Anything more is a bonus.

[formal mauve]

Awesome, thanks again for the insights.

[proud igloo]

Torrent is up in case someone needs it, it works for PC Standalone which applies to you peeps if you run that client under Wine.

[grave egret]

hey guys, how do i update POE1 to 3.26? Im using wineskin winery

[lilac trail]

You run the game just like normal.

[proud igloo]

On launch day, there is usually a downtime around 3h before launch.
When that downtime concludes, you can run the game to have it patch itself to 3.26.
A while after that the queues open and will release people into character creation once launch time hits.

[grave egret]

i see, thanks guys!

[atomic herald]

i managed to sort my stash, native mac OS standalone (sequoia 15.5) with /dnd activated and only 1 crash during that time 😜 (windowed mode) (Studio M1 max + 32 GB ram)

[lilac trail]

Well yes the /DND is the workaround. If you don't trade i.e SSF then that isn't an issue. If you do trade than that workaround isn't really practical. I think the patch for the native client which is supposed to fix some crash is being released today. I would wait for that update then try things without /DND on and see how it goes. If the update works flawlessly and the game runs without crashing post here. Maybe we can at least go back to native Mac standalone client 🤞 That may have a limitation on FPS but I can live with that.

[atomic herald]

Exactly my plan, to keep u updated on that!

[full temple]

did they fix mac client for this update

[lilac trail]

The patch notes said they had fixed a crash with the native client. It didn’t give any other details.

[full temple]

hopefuly then i can cancel geforece

[lilac trail]

If you have a system with 16GB or more you can always use the Windows client via the wiki how-to guide which is a pinned message in this channel, instead of GFN

[old sequoia]

one failure is the most crucial to play, specifically the one that crashes permanently for 10 minutes from starting the game to the desktop, if they fixed other flaws, it wouldn't make any difference to most people

as for me there should be a fps limit taken from the game on macos

[swift chasm]

Hey all if i use kegworks to install poe1 will i be able to use a trade overlay?

[atomic herald]

ok, it tells the standalone should be able to dl, but it tells it is broken, so i guess i wait some more (i moved to trashcan 2 times and it told me it was broken again after dl it)

the site seem hard to reach atm...

it tells the app is broken due to unknown date ...

[atomic herald]

This is what i get when i try start the standalone update

[lilac trail]

That’s the usual message sigh There is a workaround to get past that

[atomic herald]

bad gateway, i try to post the bug report

aaah ok

[prime dust]

I hoped that after the news about the fix for game crashes on MacOS, the game would finally work normally on the native client, but no - I installed the update in Steam and now the game doesn't open at all. When I click the Play button in Steam, the game opens for literally a second and then immediately closes

Apparently we continue playing through emulation

[atomic herald]

steam has not worked for a long time... on mac i think

anyway i posted the bug report
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3789628

[prime dust]

Last year, after the start of the Kalguur Settlers League, there was a problem with disconnection from gateways, because of which it took 15-20 minutes just to enter the game
I went in a few days ago to check if everything was ok - they haven't tried to fix this problem at all this year
And now the client on Mac doesn't work at all, wonderful

[atomic herald]

if there is a workaround, why dont GGG fix that then?

[full temple]

mine is not working

im checking geforece

[prime dust]

Can you translate this message on English? I think I can help you solve this problem, but I think game is actually doesn't working right now native MacOS Client

[atomic herald]

i could play on standalone native mac version, with /dnd activated, and ehm, only some crashes inbetween...

[atomic herald]

i will wait and see if they fix it

if they tell they have a fix against mac-crash - then they should fix the dl so it is possible with a proper date on it 😜

[full temple]

steam and stand alone client not working .... Im using geforce now

[atomic herald]

well, the servers not up yet...

one and a half hour still for the poe1

[lilac trail]

Yes. The overlay is a native Mac app. No need to use Kegworks or other WINE app for it.

[lilac trail]

Same reason most of us aren’t using the Mac clients. When there is a workaround you don’t need to fix it. Only if we were completely stuck i.e no-one log in will an issue be a high priority.

[carmine shell]

someone else have problems with kegworks after update?
i succesfully updated but on client launch it just crashes
before update it worked fine

[swift chasm]

so if im playing poe 1 with kegworks, mac native trade overlay will still work?

[lilac trail]

As far as I know yes. Your talking about APT or it’s successor Exile-Exchange right ?

[swift chasm]

just any of them 😛 coming fom geforce now poe2, and not having a overlay, i'm looking so much forward to it!

[carmine shell]

overlays work with ctrl+c items info

so if your client wrapper allows using buffer

overlays would work

[swift chasm]

How do i know if it does? I only have whine and kegworks atm

[carmine shell]

im using apt with kegworks

[atomic herald]

i found this one, i guess that is the workaround u ment

[lilac trail]

Yes. It's been so long since that was posted and I do not use the standalone client any more. If I still have it installed I will try it as well

[carmine shell]

re-created wrapper, put ggpk from previous wrapper, now it works

[forest verge]

im recreating the wrapper cus same issue, but cant find the config (github link points to poe2-config)

is there somewhere to find the poe1 config?

[jovial bolt]

Hello, new here, im using Macbook m1 pro and playing via GFN and i need to use awakened poe trade . Any1 have knowledge about it how to use it via mac silicon + GFN ?

[forest verge]

impossible

[lilac trail]

Yes - follow these 2 threads - #mac-os🍎 message

[forest verge]

oh its possible now?

[lilac trail]

Yes. A player posted 2 days ago. I was surprised as well. The second link they sent is basically referring to "use the first link". Exiled-Exchange is the successor to APT. It has a native version for the Mac which is nice

[jovial bolt]

Damn thanks a lot will check it now. Have you ever tried btw ?

[lilac trail]

No. I don't use GFN but the post and the app wouldn't exist if it did not work. If you run into issues getting it to run I would post in the github page for help. I am not sure if there is a discord channel or any other avenue to get help. If it does work then please post your experience here so we can all know

[jovial bolt]

Yeah sure, will try and let u guyz know. thanks buddy.

[lilac trail]

This is still working ! It is downloading the update for me now.

[jovial bolt]

It seems like its working with windows + GFN 😦 . The github project is exe unf. but will search if its possible to run this script in arm silicon

[lilac trail]

I've read through the whole thing but my understanding is you install Exiled-Exchange, which is a native Mac app. The Windows part it refers to is the GFN system. But that is just my guess how it all hangs together

This is what the native Mac client shows after I updated it

Is the update not live yet ?

Now I get this

[jovial bolt]

Exiled Exchange is for poe2 i guess never played poe2 before. For poe1 we need to use Awakened poe . BUT for both of them we need to use another 3rd party tool which is called "GFNPoEPriceCheck" which is help us to use trading tool via GFN. And this 3rd party tool is exe 😦

[lilac trail]

Doesn't EE also work for POE ?

[jovial bolt]

Have no idea actually , but even if we can use EE we still need this GFNPoEPriceCheck tool which is exe 😄

[tall scarab]

hello
i have m1 mac, porting kit was working well with 3.25. but latest patch i cannot run the game. its just tryna executes then exits without showing anything. i tried different wrappers but no solution. can anyone help?

[forest verge]

im having same issue

[balmy laurel]

yeah me too with kegworks

and also the mac standalone will not even start now

[lilac trail]

Kegworks you might need to refresh the wrapper. Someone posted that a short while ago

[balmy laurel]

i dont really know what that is 😦

i think technically im still using the kegworks predecessor (winery?). never updated because it didnt stop working

[lilac trail]

#mac-os🍎 message

[brave trail]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1ecjwna/psa_use_awakened_trade_in_browser_to_make_life/ This is what I used last league with GFN. Its a bit of a hassle to do but it worked fine

[atomic herald]

This is still working ! It is

[balmy laurel]

can anyone walk through a Mac noob on what this means / how to do it?

[lilac trail]

They built a new wrapper and copied the files from the old wrapper across. You can do the same thing. I'l start a thread rather than continue in this channel.

[jovial bolt]

This might work but virustotal shows that this is malicious software lol and still lots of work to do. I guess i will install PoE locally and use it for trade only 😄 but thanks for the share

[lilac trail]

That's a false warning in virus total most likely but don't do anything you are not comfortable with.

Great - it looks like POE via GPTK is now busted as well

[tall scarab]

there is some threads n posts in forum but think theyre not hearing us

[swift chasm]

which of these settings should i be using?

[lilac trail]

More than likely. It's a typical league launch by the look of it

[lilac trail]

D3DMetal+Msync

This is Crossover I assume ?

[swift chasm]

yes!

and thank you!

[atomic herald]

even PCplayers disconnect a lot it seems now ... poor GGG have some hard time

[formal mauve]

I keep getting an unexpected error occured when I load my charecter

[lilac trail]

Fantastic .... after 13 years or so you would think a launch would just work

[fading vigil]

use /dnd

[formal mauve]

Cant even get to the beach, it drops when loading into twilight strand

[proud igloo]

Morrn morrn.

[formal mauve]

Jun 13, 2025 4:35 PM (EDT) - We're aware of connection issues affecting some regions and are working on improvements.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3789612

[lilac trail]

It's a little more than connection issues. Can't connect via Mac native client, old GPTK based app that used to work is now broken. Looks like the wiki page is gonna need an update ...

[prime dust]

Hello everyone. Is there possible way to install Awakened PoE Trade on MacOS? I tried to install the native Awakened PoE Trade for 3.25, but there is a visual bug in game with popover

[formal mauve]

You need to go to the GitHub page and download the 104 version, the 102 found on the download page has the bug

had to fix that myself last night

[prime dust]

Do I understand correctly that when the PoE Trade update for version 3.26 is released, it will automatically offer me to update?

[formal mauve]

It should

Jun 13, 2025 5:07 PM (EDT) - We've found the main issue causing players to get disconnected specifically when trying to login, we'll have a fix deployed shortly. Additionally there are currently networking issues in a few regions in Asia and Europe and we are contacting our server providers to try to get this resolved as soon as possible. For our Console players, we regrettably still do not have an ETA, an update will be provided as soon as we have more information. We apologise for the inconvenience and hope to have everything stable as soon as possible! Thank you for your patience.

[untold lava]

I can feel my macbook dying in front of my eyes lol

any tips for better performance

[royal path]

Has anyone been able to get porting kit to work?

[lilac trail]

What are the symptoms ?

[royal path]

I launch poe in porting kit and it immediately closes, i tried reinstalling, didn't change anything.

[lilac trail]

Check the config file. Make sure the renderer is set to DirectX12.

If that is the case I suspect portingkit may no longer be useable. GGG made changes a while ago that prevented portingkit and GPTK being used for POE2. Sounds like it’s the same for POE now

Crossover and Kegworks still work. Kegworks is the only free option.

[proud igloo]

How's things coming along for you all?

[fallow root]

Are you guys able to open the game? M1 Mac just doesn't install with the message: "Path of Exile" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Bin."

[formal mauve]

Playing it right now on Crossover

[tall scarab]

can't play since 3.26 deployed. 3.25 was fine on porting kit

[lilac trail]

This is the native standalone client and it is still broken. There is a pinned message how to resolve this you can try but I think you will then hit another issue. You check the forums to see if there is a workaround for this fresh hell.

You can use Crossover or Kegworks as per the wiki (pinned message)

[pure gorge]

🕵️

[lilac trail]

I'm in using the native Mac standalone client ! Performance is awful, even in HO, It may get better once cache and shader files are populated.

This is on an M1 Max MBP with 64GB ram

[pure gorge]

@lilac trail - that's native, not kegworks?

[lilac trail]

Yes

[lilac trail]

The problem now is every time I exit and try to start the native client again it gives me this error message.

Removing HashCache.dat and opening the client again allows login again. This will get tiresome but the native client is working - even at 26FPS in a rare T16 is seems reasonable - but I play a spider minion build so it might be easier than a lot of other builds

GPTK and portingkit are still dead though, unless someone has got either of them running

[pure gorge]

My kegworks instance is busto - it updated, but didn't generate a .tmp executable then immediately closes.

I jammed all 3.25 and previously the update process was as-shown in the wiki

[lilac trail]

Oh and don't press the M key. It crashes the game everytime. I did not have to remove HashCache.dat t oget back in though, so that was nice

[lilac trail]

Are you on the old version of Kegworks (called Wineskin) or the new Kegworks ?

Can you check the config file and see what the renderer_type is set to. Should be DirectX12.

[pure gorge]

Yeah renderer is DirectX12

✗: brew info kegworks
==> kegworks: 2.0.3
https://github.com/Kegworks-App
Installed
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/kegworks/2.0.3 (2.5MB)
Installed on 2025-02-21 at 13:24:42

[lilac trail]

I'll start a thread rather than keep going here

[tall scarab]

its so stupid..
for those who trying to play with porting kit
just select engine ws12kegworks and it will work
i started the league finally

[lilac trail]

Awesome - so the engine needs to be updated. That isn't really surprising. The "current" engine is fairly old, but it also means that GGG made changes in this release that broke a perfectly working setup. I'll post the engine update on the wiki in a day or two. Thanks for getting it up and running.

[mild barn]

Steam doesn't work (instantly closes) but standalone does seem to work after moving the .app to the Library and unblocking the Security check. M2 Max Mac Studio running Sonoma 14.7.6.

[lilac trail]

Steam has multithreading disabled still for Mac afaik so you wouldn't want to use it anyway 😀

[mild barn]

I don't think the Steam client has ever worked on this machine, but I keep poking at it 😉

[lilac trail]

If you are really really attached to using Steam sure but as I said, it has no multithreading. You'd be better off with the standalone or via one of the wiki methods.

[fallow root]

Finally it works.

1. Open Path Of Exile as usual (I just use Spotlight [Cmd + Space] > Path of Exile)
2. It will say it's corrupt -> go to Privacy and Security and 'Open Anyway'
3. It will say corrupt still, move to Bin
4. From Bin drag that Path of Exile.app into /Users/[YOUR MAC USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/Path of Exile
5. Open that Path of Exile.app in that same folder, making sure you have a 'Content.ggpk' (around 51.05GB for me) file within.
6. Boom! Works!

[proud igloo]

Hotfix 3 has some fun new stuff that might help/hose you peeps:

Changed DirectX12 to be the default Renderer, which also helps players who were experiencing device errors under DirectX11. Clients on DirectX11 will automatically switch to this if supported but can change back if needed. The "(default)" text next to this will be updated in a later patch.
Fixed an bug where vendor windows would not save the search filter after clearing the textbox.
Fixed a client crash on Steam login screen.

[fluid hearth]

Looks like after hotfix 3, GGG updated the setting key:
it was "renderer_type=Vulkan"
now it is "device_type=Vulkan"

[night forum]

hi I was using Kegworks to run poe following https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Guide:Path_of_Exile_on_Mac_using_Windows_Client#Kegworks_(KWS)_Setup

after the 3.26 hot fix 3 I'm unable to start the game and receive the error:

[VULKAN] Failed to allocate texture [Shadow Atlas]

any ideas on a fix?

[gleaming sequoia]

changing "renderer_type=DirectX12" to "device_type=DirectX12" worked in crossover. launches again

[night forum]

yo just done this on kegworks and im back online tyty

[edgy jacinth]

that didn't fix it for me, using crossover

boo

anyone else on crossover fixed this?

[wintry valley]

i hate it when mac decides ggg isnt a known developer

[lilac trail]

What version of CO and what are your bottle settings. You need to be running v25.0.1 and using D3DMetal+Msync

[edgy jacinth]

Yup I was. Ok I fixed it, I deleted the config file and when the game recreated it I updated the setting

Thanks though, Bob is always to the rescue 🙂

[fallow root]

https://github.com/Snow-ctrl-c/poe2-config/blob/main/poe2_production_Config.ini

Is this the one to use for Kegworks, even though it says poe2?

[edgy jacinth]

haha jokes one me though lost all my game settings

[lilac trail]

You can but you can also delete the file and let the game recreate it if you have not already done that.

That may not be the issue though.

It won’t hurt to try. Make a copy of the file first otherwise you’ll lose all your settings and have to build from scratch

If the delete or replace works you can then copy/paste settings back in

[fallow root]

Thanks!! That works you're a saviour 🙂

[lavish yacht]

i have the same issue now. did you find a fix?

[lavish yacht]

nvm this fixed it. thanks a lot mate.

[wintry valley]

Just wondered what you did to fix the vulkan failed to allocate texture error?

[night forum]

changing "renderer_type=DirectX12" to "device_type=DirectX12" in poe2_production_Config.ini @wintry valley

[atomic herald]

i could enter via standalone, got some question in privacy and security - to start poe anyway

[prime dust]

Hello everyone! Yesterday I tried to play at the start of the league, but due to disconnects I decided to log in today, but I encountered the following problem
I'm trying to log in through KegWorks. I'm not the only one, am I?

When I launch PoE, I just get a black screen, and then this message

[brave trail]

Everytime I launch the client on kegworks, i get a black screen into a crash. I changed to device_type=DirectX12 and everything is the latest version. Any ideas on what else could be wrong?

[prime dust]

Oh, I think we have same problem

[brave trail]

Have you changed the render_type to device_type?

someone had the same message as you earlier and that fixed it

[prime dust]

No, but I'll try now. I'm confused by the fact that I have two files in the My Games/Path of Exile folder: poe2_production_Config.ini and production_Config.ini
Do I need both of them?

[brave trail]

yea you need both

[prime dust]

In which file should I change this?

[brave trail]

poe2

[proud igloo]

Depends on which game you're trying to play, I reckon?

[prime dust]

It didn't help me too 😦

[lilac trail]

You do not need both. POE2 is for POE2. It should not be there. Did you download the config file via the github link ? If so that’s fine but you need to rename it and delete the old one

[brave trail]

mb g, i was wrong

[proud igloo]

AFAIK, PoE2 has renderer_type while PoE1 has device_type.

[prime dust]

I need to delete the production_Config.ini and rename the config file for PoE2 to production_Config.ini, right?

[brave trail]

yea that fixed it for me. you're the goat Bob

[lilac trail]

Yes

Looks like I need to make some additional edits to the wiki in the next day or so.

[prime dust]

It works for me, ty!

[atomic herald]

i have no crash still, been playing a bit over 1 hour. Standalone native mac.

[prime dust]

I'm currently getting poor performance through Kegworks so I want to try GeForce Now
Any news on how to load a loot filter there or if awakened works when playing through it?

[prime dust]

I have the same problem - the native client via Steam does not work, when launched the game appears in the line of icons at the bottom, after which after 3-4 seconds it simply closes

[atomic herald]

i didnt start via steam - just standalone, u know the difference?

i got disconnect half an hour ago, and it was abit tricky to join the game again now

[untold lava]

are there any special tricks to improve framerate on mac (other than turning the visuals down)?

does display mode (windowed / full screen) make any difference?

my macbook is probably going to turn into a RF build if I play too much, while going at a crisp 15 fps

[honest trellis]

Hey ! i have my production.ini file that doesnt contain anything even after trying to boot. Any ideas on what ive done wrong ? (Porting kit paul the tall)

M1 mac

i'll try BBedit maybe
Edit: doesnt show anything either

[lilac trail]

Having everything on low settings might help. Performance is poor on every app I’ve tried. The Mac native app gives me a scorching 30FPS in HO, so it’s a game thing, not the app. GFN might be better but you are very limited in the 3rd party tools you can use. Loot filters will run (at least Filterblade will). There are two posts on how to get Exiled-Exchange running. I think another post might have been for APT. There are only a day or 2 old so should be easy to find.

[lilac trail]

It can be empty. It should populate when you enter the game. I assume you updated the engine being used or is it working without that change ?

[honest trellis]

game closes instantly when i try to launch. No launcher. I did the first 47go install with the launcher then nothing.

WS11WineCX64Bit23.7.1_D3DMetal-v1.1 for M series

this engine was used on setup

I'll try removing list and disk and do again. shouldn't take long.
(got a dc at 10go download, had to relaunch, might have broke something in the installation)

[lilac trail]

Look for gigachad. They updated the engine for portingkit. You may need to do that as well.

[honest trellis]

what does that mean ? :p

[proud igloo]

During startup the game has to initialise far enough to write configuration file contents.
You could possibly get around it with putting in some placeholder entries to change the renderer if your runtime needs a particular one, like:

[DISPLAY]
device_type=DirectX12

Depends really on if it can run it with any renderer at all.

And yeah, as the game evolves you may need newer engines to support it.

[honest trellis]

thanks ! Newer engines means i might need to use a different one than that WS11WineCX64Bit23.7.1_D3DMetal-v1.1

[lilac trail]

Yes

[honest trellis]

okay found gigachad msg

#mac-os🍎 message

easy thanks x)

[lilac trail]

Except for those that may still run an Intel based system. They will still need to use Vulkan.

[proud igloo]

Yeah, meant as an example of syntax.

[honest trellis]

Engine : kegworks

• this in the empty file makes the game launch

Once started, ini file got filled.
Under display section : no "renderer_type" but "device_type=DirectX12"

Everything is working so far. Thanks !

[atomic herald]

i made an explain how i got it to work on this thread, for mac native standalone
https://discord.com/channels/174993814845521922/1383162466015510538

[mighty pike]

Hi guys, does anyone know how to fix the low fps on the map, this 60 fps and when you start a map it gets to 10 at the maximum, impossible to play on the macbook pro m2 pro 16gb

[atomic herald]

just lower everything...

[mighty pike]

Are you playing with? steam?

[atomic herald]

that is standalone right? (not steam)

i use standalone

and i have 32 gb ram...

well i take a break now, afk, good luck!

[prime dust]

I tried to play via GFN and that better for me
But I have a question how can I use Awakened PoE Trade? Maybe there is a guide for GFN

[lilac trail]

Yeap. There is a pinned message with these steps in it for those who also encounter this problem. Did you also need to grant POE full permissions before doing this ? Some players have reported not getting the security alert without doing this. I don’t believe I needed to do that but it has been a long time since I used the native client.

[lilac trail]

#mac-os🍎 message

[formal mauve]

So I just opened the game in CO and it did a quick minor patch update but then after that the game no longer launches, the client patcher loads for a hot second then just closes the entire game, never makes it to the splash screen. Any ideas what this could be? I'm currently reinstalling but curious if this happens with CO affter patches?

[lilac trail]

It's likely because the renderer setting was changed this patch. See the patch notes or look for a post by zao on what it should be in the config_in i file now

[uneven bone]

Same for me, played all day yesterday, crashes at load today. Digging around for the config ini now

[grave egret]

same just happened, i changed renderer_type to device_type in the config ini and it works now

[formal mauve]

Ahh kk

[uneven bone]

Where is the configini again? digging through my wine bottle and its eluding me

[grave egret]

shd be in your document>my games> path of exile

at least for me

[formal mauve]

I couldn't find the "device_type" so just edit render instead

[proud igloo]

For PoE1, it used to be renderer_type and has been changed to honor device_type instead.

My interpretation is that if the new key isn't present, it tries to autodetect and if that crashes out, you're not making progress.

[formal mauve]

So it's okay to just replace renderer_type with device_type in the config file now?

[uneven bone]

Didn't work for me

[cobalt ledge]

hiiii, Since I updated the latest patch, I can't open the game in steam

mac mini m1

poe1

[uneven bone]

Ooooh, I misunderstood. That did work!

1. Open config ini
2. Find renderer_type and change that name to device_type
3. Save. POE works.

At least for me. I was changing directx12 to device_type :p

[formal mauve]

Glad to hear it worked, hopefully once it finishes installing for me that will fix it

[formal mauve]

It works now for me too. Good to note that for fresh installs now the config file now includes the "device_type" in the config file but it is set to Vulkan so that needs to be changed to DirectX12

[lilac trail]

As I understand it a hotfix was supposed to update that field. It should have read DirectX12, not Vulkan - unless your system is an Intel based Mac.

[formal mauve]

Interesting. Well I'm on an M series Mac and after doing the fresh install the config file had written device_type=Vulkan so maybe there's an oversight somewhere 😵‍💫

[lilac trail]

Do you have both renderer_type=DirectX12 and device_type=Vulkan in the ini file ?

Interesting - the file was not updated when I logged on, so it still had the old parameter of renderer_type=Directx12. It did not even write the new field in. Manually adding the new field in (and leaving the old field there) and the game successfully started up. So the hotfix update isn't working for 2 reasons (it is not updating wit hthe new field and where it does the field is still set to Vulkan). Maybe because the client is reading the system and sees it is a Mac, not Windows device and gets all confused. That however does not explain why my Mac native client also refused to update the file 🤔

[old kraken]

Hi, is POE bricked for MAC/steam? After new patch the game fails to open. Tried to download standalone game from their website, but it also fails to work. Maybe someone knows if there is a fix, couldn't find anything on forums (MacBookPro 16' M3).

[lilac trail]

There is a workaround for the "damaged file" error with the native client. It is in the pinned messages section. This is for the standalone client only. Steam seemes completely messed up.

[novel onyx]

I am having the same issue. I have not been able to find a fix for it. I am not getting any error when trying to load the game from steam. It just never even starts ups. 😦

[lilac trail]

What is the full engine name - I do not see WS12Kegworks in portingkit engine options

[ruby juniper]

I downloaded the installer dmg file from the official website then I moved it to the Applications folder but it says
“Path of Exile” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.
what is the next step after Move to Trash?

[novel onyx]

Here is a link to an article that explains the process. https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3533996

I was just able to get it to work by following these steps exactly. Let me know if you are still experiencing issues.

[ruby juniper]

I can't find this folder /Users/yourUserName/Library/Application Support/Path of Exile

[lilac trail]

There is a pinned message in this channel that outlines the steps

[ruby juniper]

There is no Path of Exile folder

[lilac trail]

That Library folder is hidden

You need to unhide it first

[novel onyx]

You need to show hidden folders by doing command, shift, period

[ruby juniper]

which folder is hidden? I have done this and Path of Exile folder isn't shown in /Users/yourUserName/Library/Application Support/

[lilac trail]

Be aware - this method is inconsistent, at least for me. Sometimes it works, sometimes it gets further and presents another error message. Every time I start the native standalone client I have to go through the same process. I have given up using it today. Went back to using Kegworks, which is flawless.

[novel onyx]

Library was a hidden folder for me under my username folder

[ruby juniper]

In the forum it says
If you open Users and do not see the Library,
I mean I can see Library folder

Path of Exile folder isn't seen

[lilac trail]

Forget the forum. Use the pinned message in here - #mac-os🍎 message

The workaround is not guaranteed to work. It is extremely hit and miss. I am puzzled why GGG would not be seeing these issues in testing

I would highly recommend making a post in the technical or bug section of the official forums. GGG need to see volume to take notice and prioritize this issue.

[ruby juniper]

Is this only for the update? I deleted the application and tried installing it from the scratch using the installer dmg file from the official website

This is my trash looks like

[lilac trail]

Yeap - that looks right

So you found the hidden folder I assume ? It would put it in the quick access on the LHS of the Finder menu so you can find it again without needing to hide/unhide the folder all the time

[ruby juniper]

Yeah I found the hidden folder and deleted the .dat files

But my Applications app still has Path of Exile should I also remove it?

And I can't see Path of Exile under Security settings which is step 5

Did anyone record the entire process of the fix anyway

[lilac trail]

Do not remove the app under /Applications - it is supposed to be there.
The fix is not hard to do but it can take several attempts before being successful. I just launched the standalone client and it ran without issues - this time. It could just as likely error on me later on.

Follow the pinned process. It's the closest thing to getting the standalone client running.

[ruby juniper]

Finally it pops out now but I wasn't able to click Open Anyway
I mean I clicked but nothing happened

[glacial swallow]

Any way to install the standalone on a mac m4? I downloaded the installer but it doesn't do anything, keep saying file is damaged. And I don't see any folder in library dir.

[lilac trail]

There have been like a dozen posts in the last day. You could have checked. Apart from that there is a pinned message that outlines a fix.

[glacial swallow]

Thanks, found a link to setiup and now at least downloading the game. Let's see if this works.

[ruby juniper]

I was able to download and open the game on native client now how do I login using steam account?

[next shell]

Thanks to all whose posts here helped me get porting kit working again in 3.26.

[glacial swallow]

I don't think steam login works with standalone. Try searching, but imo you will need to create a new account.

[glacial swallow]

Which specific post? I might try that if standalone doesn't work for me.

[lilac trail]

The pinned message have the link to the wiki, which has been updated to reflect all the recent changes

[lilac trail]

You don’t use Steam login with standalone. The wiki tells you what to do

[old kraken]

Hey, just want to say thank you for help! The pinned fix is working 🎉

[cobalt ledge]

how to update patch? i restart game not yet to update

[lilac trail]

This is the standalone Mac client yes ? You should be able to fire up the app again and that should go away (and update if it really needs to).

If not - then remove the Update.dat file and maybe HashCache.dat as well and try again. It's hit and miss if the workaround for the standalone works consistenyl or not. To avoid this altogether setup the Windows client instead, as per the wiki, the link to which is in pinned messages.

[atomic herald]

i get that when i open poe on the PathOfExileClient.app
If u open the folder where that one is placed, and open the PathOfExile.app in that folder instead, should be in pathway:
user/username/library/application support/Path or Exile (folder)

if that dont work, check your security, if something is showed up there

[proud igloo]

@ruby juniper in order to use the Standalone client you associate a email and password with your PoE account on the website and use that to sign into the Standalone client.
A PoE account can have several login methods associated with it, from Steam and Standalone to console and Epic ones.

If you've ended up with multiple accounts already, support may be able to help you merge them up.

[atomic herald]

the download of steam and standalone is placed on different spots on the mac, u dont need to delete the steam part to download and play the standalone

i have both installed, just in case...

and yea, it is another way to reach the standalone, u need to sign in to the website and register an email and another login password onto your first login there (with steam) both can still be used connected to the same pathofexile ingame account

[next shell]

Can anyone recommend a mac-native app similar to awakened poe trade? I'm using portingkit for the main game so I need something native 🤔 thanks in advance for your time

[prime dust]

It didn't help, as I understand it, he can't open the tunnel because I have a standard account, and I'm not ready to pay for a subscription

[lilac trail]

You don't need a subscription to anything. I don't see why you can't use the setup on the GFN free tier. ngrok is, or was free. It's a lot of effort to get a price check going when you can just use a browser based price checker though. I never traded enough to need a tool. I've always found the GGG trade site is generally good enough to get an idea on pricing, but that's just me. The other options is Exiled-Exchange. Never used it and someone said it is only for POE2. Not sure if this is true or not. I though EE replaced APT for both games. If that is true then there is a post about who to get EE running on GFN, using another 3rd party option but not nearly as complex as trying to get APT runing via that link I referred you to.

[prime dust]

About ngrok:

ERROR:  failed to start tunnel: Only Personal, Pro, Enterprise, and Pay-as-you-go plans may bind custom hostnames.
ERROR:  Failed to bind the custom hostname 'http,https' for the account '<my email>'.
ERROR:  This account is on the 'Free' plan.
ERROR:  
ERROR:  Upgrade to a paid plan at: https://dashboard.ngrok.com/billing/subscription

I will try to use Exiled-Exchange

[lilac trail]

Huh - maybe they changed something since that is not mentioned in the original post or the post someone made yesterday in this channel saying they got it working. What is a personal copy - you still have to pay for it ? Also - you do not need to use ngrok specifically - you can also use nginx, which is free open source (or at least has a free version) so you could try it wit hnginx as well instead of ngrok

[cobalt ledge]

Can I have the "update.dat" file for macos? I can't find in my folder

[lilac trail]

There won’t be one if you are up to date as far as I know. It will create one if an update kicks off

[elder cedar]

qq guys. who can recomend solution how to fix 3.26 error on mac 🙏 ?

[lilac trail]

pinned messages

[elder cedar]

#mac-os🍎 message this ? but this is an old guide, and this is a crutch through virtual windows

i don't wanna play on some strange virtual windows ( with there's bugs ) + only 60 fps....

i mean have some reaaaaaly fix for 3.26 like /dnd, or everybody just be content with virtual windows crutch

[lilac trail]

That isn’t the pinned message referred to.

[final lagoon]

i am getting a new error with vulcan on mac os for poe

can someone help. I think it just needs updated since i last used the bottle 1 year ago

getting {vulcan} failewd to allocate texture {shadow atlas}

[lilac trail]

Read the wiki - you need to update the config file

[atomic herald]

now it is broken with wrong date msg again... haha

the file update.dat is not possible to delete and i think that one causes the problem right now...

[pulsar zenith]

so I guess Macos-version of either Steam or standalone are not working ? 😢

[atomic herald]

not at the moment (not for me anyway)

[young mica]

how do i use awakened poe trade in crossover?

[ruby juniper]

It happens again 😭

[ruby juniper]

I am left with these folders/ files in /Users/yourUserName/Library/Application Support/Path of Exile

What's next?

[unkempt onyx]

You are missing the Path of Exile.app file, in the instructions you are supposed to move the one from trash to this folder and open it from there after clicking "Move to trash" on the app.

[ruby juniper]

I see how do I get the .app file now? I still have poe on my Applications

[unkempt onyx]

When you clicked move to trash it moves to correct .app file to your trashcan, so you need to open your trash can and move the .app from there to the Path of Exile directory.

Like this.

[ruby juniper]

I mean I have emptied my Trash bin and there are no files left

[unkempt onyx]

then run the path of exile.app from your applications folder and click move to trash when it gives u the error

[ruby juniper]

Now I moved it back to
/Users/yourUserName/Library/Application Support/Path of Exile

But I can't see it under Security which allows me to do Open Anyway

[ivory veldt]

I've installed standalone Mac client and followed the steps to get past the security error. Can start the application just fine, going through launcher as it should, opening the actual application showing the login page. Hoverever when trying to log in i get the "must update" message. There is no update.dat file and deleting the hashcache.dat does not change anything, it just gets recreated.
quitting and restarting the application shows the launcher checking for update but deciding the version i have is good, but when i try to log in nothing has changed.
Is there any way to check what version im on? Any other ideas on what to try?

[unkempt onyx]

What happens when you right click it and click open?

[unkempt onyx]

in your Path of Exile directory what is the date of the Content.ggpk and the Path of Exile.app files?

[ruby juniper]

It's damaged and makes me move to trash

[marble fulcrum]

i think everyone having this issue

[unkempt onyx]

delete it, then delete the one from your applications folder aswell. then delete the installer, and grab the latest .dmg from the pathofxile.com website - if that doesnt work you may need to fully reinstall.

[ivory veldt]

content.ggpk created at Saturday, 14 June 2025 at 13:53
.app created at Monday, 16 June 2025 at 04:53

this is based on a completly fresh install from the standalone mac client a few hours ago, only steps taken is the "move to bin, move to app support".
checked the config.ini and it was already on the latest wording of the device_type

[unkempt onyx]

Yea i just tried to launch with that, and got the same issue seems all mac users are struggling. Im gonna try a few things and will put a message here if i find any solution.

[ivory veldt]

i've come accros some (very very old) posts in the forum suggesting deleting the content.ggpk so i might give that a go and see if the updater wants to grab a correct version

[unkempt onyx]

yea im trying that but slow internet lol

if u have fast internet id recommend trying it, im at 5% right now

[ivory veldt]

launcher shows 3.26.0b patch notes, but it did that 2 hours ago as well

im still allocating space so you might beat me to it

[unkempt onyx]

not at 3.7 MB/s 😭

[ivory veldt]

ouch

[proud igloo]

It's unlikely that you ever manage to get the GGPK into a weird state; if you're looking to delete/move things to test, probably move the file somewhere else for safekeeping in the interim.

[ivory veldt]

yeah restore from bin is just a click away, but after downloading it again might as wel keep the new one

[unkempt onyx]

my 256gb of storage cannot afford to move to elsewhere...

[proud igloo]

Sounds like my M1 Mini 😄

[unkempt onyx]

im on a m2 air

with 8gb of ram

[ivory veldt]

still throttled to hell by servers because i should be able to get another digit in that number at least

[unkempt onyx]

its a beast

[proud igloo]

What I mean is that it's unlikely to contribute to the problem, so shifting it around and putting it back when you've deleted directories might save you some bandwidth and time.

[unkempt onyx]

@proud igloo when is poe gonna be rewritten in rust?

[ivory veldt]

@proud igloo do you have any insgith in to checking what version im actually running?

[proud igloo]

Not really, no.

I haven't followed anything that has happened in here since launch either, apart from the renderer type for the PC client.

[unkempt onyx]

U can check the build version in the Path of Exile.app/Contents/Info.plist but its not gonna help u debug anything really.

[proud igloo]

Good call, CFBundleVersion looks like a relevant number indeed, but there's a lot of .app everywhere 😄

[unkempt onyx]

I guess u could compare this to someone on windows but I dont think on windows there is a raw build number I think it shows a version like 3.26 .....

[proud igloo]

https://pale-court.github.io/dat-scope/index.html

[unkempt onyx]

seems right to me then

[proud igloo]

time, I hope you peeps sort things out or get aid from the residents.

[lilac trail]

What do you mean you can’t update.dat ? It won’t move to the Trash bin ?

[lilac trail]

You don’t. APT is a native client so just install it. You will probably need to configure the options in it to work properly but I believe a number of people are using it, or its successor Exiled-Exchange (which may only be for POE2. Not sure since I don’t use them)

[lilac trail]

Probably too late but don’t do that. It’ll start the 40GB download all over again

[ruby juniper]

I am doing the fresh install now again but I can't find .app file to delete

[ivory veldt]

yeah, was over pretty quick though, no change so it was just something different to try 😂

[lilac trail]

Does POE even run ? It is not recommended for systems with less than 16GB, so I’m curious what FPS you get on that system.

[ivory veldt]

There is a post about this "needs update" issue on the forum but the bug reports are ignored even more than the live update thread

[lilac trail]

That won’t appear till POE installs

[ruby juniper]

What is the next step

[unkempt onyx]

no it doesnt run lol

[ruby juniper]

Open poe from Applications?

[lilac trail]

Yeah - with a base system your best bet is to use the free version of GFN but then you can’t use tools like APT or EE so there is a trade off.

[lilac trail]

Has POE install using native client finished ? If so there will be a Path of Exile.app in that folder. If not then you either didn’t install from the dmg or it did not run properly. You could try and open if the .app is in /Applications. Either do that or reinstall

[ruby juniper]

I ran the .dmg file and moved it to Applications folder as instructed

So I assume I open poe from Applications to get it run and it will show the app is damaged or something similar

[lilac trail]

Likely. I have not done the native install for a long time

Have a finder window open in the Path of Exile folder. You should see 3 files appear - HashCache.dat, Update.dat and Path of Exile.app
Once those are there then you can follow the pinned post regarding the “This file is damaged”

It can take a few goes of deleting, emptying the bin and re-running. Also have the Privacy&Security section open to see the “Open anyway” message

[ruby juniper]

I don't have .app file in the /Users/yourUserName/Library/Application Support/Path of Exile folder tho, only 2 .dat files and my Trash has .app file

I was able to install by following #mac-os🍎 message instructions and play it since two days ago but it wasn't working now

[lilac trail]

That’s kinda weird. Clear the trash bin. Right click and select Open on the app in /Applications. What happens ?

I’m not home for several hours. Support in NZ are asleep. There was one post about the update issue in the official forum you can try if you get that far. I will take a look when I can but might come up blank too.

[ruby juniper]

Right clicked and opened

[lilac trail]

Ok. Is trash empty ? If so select Move to Trash

Before that check Privacy and Security. Any message there ?

[ruby juniper]

Yeah trash is empty I have moved it to Trash but I can't see any messages under Security in Privacy and Security

So I need to check Privacy and Security before moving it to Trash? If so let me redo

[atomic herald]

yea

[lilac trail]

I don’t recall exactly when that security message comes up so it is best to check it all the time. I’ve seen it when you first move to the trash or later.

[lilac trail]

That means it is in use. Close whatever has it open, then trash it

[zealous lodge]

Hey folks, im joining with the same problem. without any solution yet.

[atomic herald]

oh

[zealous lodge]

File keeps beeing "damaged" if moving it from the trash to the application folder again

[lilac trail]

Read the pinned message on what to do.

[zealous lodge]

@lilac trail not working for me 😉 seems like the folks of ggg failed to sign it correctly disabling csrutils fixes the problem

[atomic herald]

i wait til they figure out a fix, i mean sooner or later...

[zealous lodge]

you can restart your mac in recovery mode > option > then open the terminal and enter "csrutils disable" there. After you restart and i am able to patch and launch now.

Not the straight away recommended version. But at least fine for me now

[lilac trail]

Nice. I wonder though if this will fail next time around too though. Do you need to boot into recovery mode to disable csrutils ? There should be a terminal command to do that.

[zealous lodge]

you need the terminal command for it.

[tight nymph]

For me it says csrutils command not found

[atomic herald]

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/disabling-and-enabling-system-integrity-protection

[tight nymph]

Ah nvw i typed ''csrutil disable'' and it works but the terminal says the following: The OS environment does not allow changing security config options. Ensure that the system was booted into recovery OS via standard user action. Even though i booted into recovery mode by holding power button

Restarted then rebooted to recovery again now it worked xd

[zealous lodge]

You should not mind at all as the current version has more bugs than just getting it running 🙈

You can go to https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3792263/page/1#p26210887 see whats currently going on. Even after disabling crsutil you will not beeing able to play on mac because patch version does not match. It just shows PoE1 in the bottom right corner instead of the patch version

[tight nymph]

Oh

[zealous lodge]

As i already mentioned, crsutil usualy just enables skipping the signature of the app which also seems to be broken. Most likely they changed there build procedure on mac and didnt test it at all....

[tight nymph]

I did all the possible steps from forum threads, managed to get Poe launching but it wouldn't update even when changing update.dat to update.zip, extracting it and replacing the app file. I thought I would find a solution here but I guess not

[tight nymph]

Classic GGG

[lilac trail]

Did they change something because I had no issues getting in just now

[tight nymph]

I had no issues playing yesterday before new patch

[lilac trail]

All I did was follow the usual steps. No having to disable csrutils or anything unusual

Basically followed the pinned message steps

Oh - wait - after login I now have the patch update message ....

[tight nymph]

I wonder what have they done with steam version, it was "playable" in settlers league, but now it wont launch no matter what

[lilac trail]

It was sort of playable on Steam because they disabled multithreading. It is still disabled. Performance would not be great but no-one seemed to have noticed 🤷‍♂️

[zealous lodge]

its crazy how long the need to react to such a fatal error

[proud igloo]

The login problem with outdated client may be fixed now, give it a shot.

[lilac trail]

I can confirm it is working. You still need to do the usual workaround for the "File is damaged ..." problem but the login patch issue is no longer plaguing us

[elder cedar]

doesn't help... mac os

steam version doesn't start

[elder cedar]

how to do it🙏

[lilac trail]

Depends on what you are asking about - the issue where it said the game needed a patch and to restart issue is gone. None of the other issues are fixed. I don't run the steam client. It's more broken than the standalone. Maybe switch to it or run via the Windows client as outlined on the wiki.

[elder cedar]

mac os through standalone for example

[lilac trail]

Do you have the standalone installed ?

[elder cedar]

If I launch a game through a folder without using steam, is it not considered a standalone?😄

[lilac trail]

Not if it's the Steam folder 😉 I will start a thread instead of us posting back and forth here

[lilac trail]

OK so ..... after logging off I decided to log back on again. Now this message comes up. There are 3 methods to get past it. However I think this issue is server/gateway related. I'm getting a scorching 8 FPS after logging in, so using a workaround is moot. It's unplayable at 8 FPS. Once the servers or gateway I'm on calms down a workaround should not be needed

[dusk haven]

Hey I'm getting the "there has been an update" bug message on login. Crossover. Anyone found a way in ? It was working fine like a few hours ago. EDIT : fixed it was probably on GGG side. deleted the client.exe and .dat file to do a new update.

[ruby juniper]

Does porting kit solve this issue

[tight nymph]

Yep, I can also confirm, now it works, altough I'm getting 30 fps and not 8 😄

[lilac trail]

How did you get past the pop up and actually login (I have 3 methods, so just curious) ?

[tight nymph]

to be fair, I've never got this specific popup

When I tried to fix the "Poe is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to bin" I did these methods:
And on top of those methods, I disabled SIP by running terminal in recovery OS boot and typing: csrutil disable.
here are the links to the threads I used:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3533996/page/3
https://webcdn.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3789629/page/3