Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Mac cant launch BG3. Activity monitor shows zero percent CPU usage.

I was able to launch BG3 on Tuesday. On Thursday I tried to download the new patch and for 4 days I've been trying to get it to run.

I've tried giving BG3 and Steam Full Disk Access, I've reverified the Steam game files multiple times, restarted my computer, updated to Ventura, and let my mac 'verify' BG3 multiple times. I haven't made it to the Larian launcher once. If I start the game through steam and let it run it will bounce up and down on my dock as if the game is opening, but after several minutes will become unresponsive without any changes until forced to quit even if given several hours to possibly boot up.

I've noticed in my Activity Monitor it shows BG3 is using up 0% of my CPU as if my computer isn't even attempting to run it. I should note I'm using a 2017 iMac with a 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 processor. I am aware the minimum specs for Mac have changed as of launch, but I have seen other people say they've been able to play despite not having an M1 chip.

Is there anyone else having this issue or know of any fixes?

I'm having the same issue. I've done the same verification, I've launched it from within the package contents, I've turned off cloud saves and cleared all previous cached and save files. There is obviously something wrong with the launcher in general. After waiting a month to play to have a really dumb issue stopping me from playing is not fun.

*edit: I meant to mention this is happening on a brand new m2.max. So this isnt a performance issue as far as I can tell.

I just tried something new and it worked! Find your Baulder's Gate 3 app (should be 100+ GB) right click and click "Get Info". Make sure the "Open using Rosseta" checkbox is OFF. Good luck

I am not seeing that option when I click Get Info. I have the Locked checkbox showing unchecked, but no other boxes.

Exact same issue here. Complete clean install, tried through steam, tried outside of steam. Launch from the app directly, launch through steam. Verification through steam. Never got so much as the launcher. It's particularly disappointing after the EA worked fine.

Okay people, I finally got mine working (Intel iMac), it was a ridiculous process but I will post everything I did and hopefully it’ll work for others:

- Created a new user account on my mac just for running BG3 to make sure my user files weren’t going to contaminate the process. I also booted into Recovery Mode and ran First Aid to check for any other outlying issues.

- Fresh install of steam (including the application support files, except for the commons folder if you’re doing this on an account with previously installed games. in that case, make sure you delete any previous installs of BG3 from that folder as well before continuing).

- Fresh install of BG3, left open overnight and turned on Auto-Launch so that it would start verifying because it took 4~5 hours for Mac OS’s verification process to complete.

- At this point, the game was installed and verified, but trying to open it only resulted in the BG3 game icon bouncing for a few minutes then just sitting there doing nothing. I gave it an hour just in case, then force quit BG3 and Steam.

- Opened System Preferences and gave Full Disk Access and Accessibility permissions to the BG3 app. Made sure Steam had the same access. Restarted computer.

- Tried launching from the BG3 app outside of Steam, didn't work.

- Opened Steam, disabled cloud saves and did a Steam verification check for the integrity of the files of the BG3 install (took about 1 hour).

- Launched BG3 from Steam and alas, it worked.