Game crashes at initialisation when stored on external drive [MacOS]

[yakalmario]

Hello,

I had problems launching the game when having it Steam-downloaded on external drive.
First, it was a problem to install the launcher – the game could not find the installation folder/file, which I fixed by manually installing launcher into the

~/Library/Application Support/Paradox Interactive

folder.
Now, when the game launches, it crashes during the initialisation with logs indicating the game not being able to find necessary files. So it's kind of the same problem I faced with the launcher: looks like the game does not start looking from the absolute path of the folder it is installed.
Please, see the crash report attached.

I would like to store the game on the external drive, where I store all my other Steam games without a problem.
Thank you in advance for your help!

 

[AndrewT]

I'm not seeing why where the game is installed matters at all - certainly under Windows it is routing to have it on, say, D: drive instead of C: - that's how I have it for instance. Unfortunately I don't have a Mac with multiple drives to test this on.

Can you confirm that is the issue by installing on an internal drive instead, please?

 

[yakalmario]

I'm not seeing why where the game is installed matters at all - certainly under Windows it is routing to have it on, say, D: drive instead of C: - that's how I have it for instance. Unfortunately I don't have a Mac with multiple drives to test this on.

Can you confirm that is the issue by installing on an internal drive instead, please?

I did two things:

1. Moved the game from the external drive to internal – no success.
2. Completely reinstalled the game on the internal drive – success.

I will try now to move it to the external drive, will see if it works.

 

[yakalmario]

UPD:

I did two things:

1. Moved the game from the external drive to internal – no success.
2. Completely reinstalled the game on the internal drive – success.

I will try now to move it to the external drive, will see if it works.

No success. Fails with the same error log. Could you try reproducing it on your side?
Thanks!

 

[AndrewT]

Just to be clear, the game now fails to run when on your internal drive? So the issue is nothing to do with being on the external drive, is that right?

What happens if you run ck3.app, any error show then?


Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings III/pdx_settings.txt .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings III/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log, exceptions.log

Also in Steam please click on Steam-Help-System Info, and paste everything there into a text file and attach that here.