Surviving Mars - Crashes on startup on M1 Mac

[gulbarat]

Description
Crashes on startup on M1 Mac


Mac


Steam

What is your game version?


What DLC do you have installed?
(DID NOT ANSWER QUESTION)

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Every time I try to launch Surviving Mars it crashes. Please make this game M1 compatible again.

Can you replicate the issue?
on every launch


File(s) attached

 

[AndrewT]

Please make this game M1 compatible again.

This game was never actually made M1 compatible, in fact that is technically unsupported hardware for this game.

That said it is known to generally work, with some glitches at times. It's not clear from that log why it is crashing on your machine.


Please attach here the latest log from the game :

~/Library/Application Support/Surviving Mars/logs/

To find that file, in Finder do cmd-shift-G to bring up the GOTO box. In there paste ~/Library/ . You will see a /Application Support/ folder, and inside that /Surviving Mars/ and then a /logs/ folder. Please attach the latest file from in there to here by dropping it on this support ticket, or use the "Attach file" link here.

 

[gulbarat]

Here is the log file

 

[AndrewT]

Available memory:
physical: 3515 MB

I'm afraid it does not meet the minimums, even putting aside the M1 issue:

• Processor: 4th Generation Intel i3 CPU or equivalent
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Graphics: OpenGL 4.1 (GeForce 600/AMD Radeon 5000 or higher) with 1GB of video RAM

I recommend you seek a refund from wherever you bought the game, unless you have access to a machine that meets those minimums.

Sorry about that!

 

[gulbarat]

My M1 computer has 16 GB of memory.

 

[AndrewT]

Right, but it's mostly used by something else:

Memory In Use: 78%

If you exit every other app you can, does the game run then?

 

[gulbarat]

No, it doesn't run. Memory is not the issue. Despite of that the log file doesn't show the available memory correctly

 

[AndrewT]

I see, that may be another side-effect of being on the novel M1 architecture.

I'd forgotten but this has been reported before, I see now:

Surviving Mars - Game launches then immediately quits itself [MacOS M1]

Description Game launches then immediately quits itself Mac Steam What is your game version? App ID: 464920, Build ID: 7916247 What DLC do you have installed? Space Race, Green Planet, Colony Design Set, In-Dome Buildings Pack...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

So far as I have seen none of our games will ever be back-ported to native M1 code, so at this point I'd have to say the game will never run on an M1 Mac unless the problem happens to be in Rosetta and Apple fix that in any upcoming MacOS version.

Sorry about that!